MOTO JOURNEYMAN
Mate, you’ve been travelling non-stop since you left Australia. Where are you now and do you have a regular base?
My year has been a scramble of plans, ideas, organising, training and plane flights. If you told me in January I would be back in Europe racing world championship again for HRC Honda Europe, I would've needed to pinch myself. But here we are living in a small village located in Holland called Valkenswaard. I’m almost living like a backpacker. The team organised for me to live with one of the team mechanics in his apartment. It’s actually been a great base, with everything we need at our fingertips.
The original idea was to head to the US but then you went to Europe. Can you take us through the original plan and how that changed?
I decided to pack my bags and head to the States to follow a gut feeling I had worked up. I always live by the motto, aim for the stars and you might just get there. I wanted to race the AMA Outdoors as a privateer. Get a motorhome, travel from race to race with a small support crew including my dad, cousin and girlfriend. A phone call from Yarrive Konsky started the process of combining my US campaign with a return to Australian SuperX alongside Justin Brayton.
Damien from Blue Wings Honda, New Zealand, was stoked to be involved and our first stop was to New Zealand to live with my old teammate Cody Cooper. We pushed each other during four weeks of training. I also did some personal technical training with Ben Townley before racing the last round of the NZ motocross championship.
Right before we left for Los Angeles I received an email from Eric Keyho, manager of HRC Honda US. They had caught wind that I was coming to race the AMA Motocross Championship and would like to know if we would be interested in
