OTP : WITH THE BORDERS SHUT DOWN IT ' S BEEN A LITTLE DIFFICULT FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO COME OVER AND HELP SUPPORT THEIR RIDERS ; IS THAT SOMETHING YOUR FAMILY USED TO DO COME WITH YOU AND CHEER YOU ON FROM THE SIDELINES ?
TH : Yeah , up until the last two years , there wasn ' t a whole lot of races that my dad wasn ' t at . These last two years I ’ ve kind of had to grow up and do everything on my own , which is probably good because you have to grow up at some point . I ’ ve just had to learn to show up to a race and pretty much just be with my mechanic and race without any family there . My girlfriend still comes to a little bit , but with COVID , it definitely made it difficult .
OTP : SINCE YOU ' RE BACK IN CANADA RIGHT NOW , IS IT NICE HAVING A HOME TURF EVENT ?
TH : Yeah , I just raced the Red Bull Outliers and got the win . The Canadians definitely I have my back ; they all message me on social media and it ' s pretty cool to have a whole country rallying and showing support . To come home and race in front of them was really cool and it was something I was really looking forward to ; I was glad to get the win and show what I can do in front of the home crowd .
OTP : COULD YOU GIVE ME A QUICK RECAP OF HOW THE OUTLIERS WENT ?
TH : The Red Bull Outliers is a fairly new event . They used to have it back in 2010 and 2011 , and i think Jarvis won it one of those years . It ' s basically in a “ badlands ” type place ; it ' s just all hill climbs and downhill . It was a full-on extreme enduro ; it was a little bit of a different format than the ones in the states , but it was an extreme enduro kind of like Red Bull Override . The format for this year was four hours or eight laps , and every lap they opened up a new , what they called “ outlier ,” which was basically a hill climb section . So , every lap , the first place rider , which was me in this case , would open a new outlier and then from that point on , everyone would have to take that outlier . I know I made a couple people upset because they were maybe on their first or second lap and I was opening outliers up pretty fast so they were having to jump start their race to the hard spot ; sorry to some of those people . I ended up winning the qualifier and then I ended up winning the main event too , so it was a pretty good weekend for me .
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