VOL. 50 ISSUE 16 APRIL 23, 2013
P91
BY JEAN TURNER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KELSEY ABBOTT
At 40 years of age,
Destry Abbott has no
plans spending the
rest of his days on the
golf courses just yet.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
I
t's been an up and down off-season for everyone on
the Kawasaki off-road squad. The team was on the
brink of dissolve following the 2012 Las Vegas EnduroCross finale, but fans and racers alike were thrilled to
hear that Big Green scraped together enough funds to
resurrect the team. But for off-road icon Destry Abbott,
the much-celebrated announcement was followed by another down when he was dropped from the roster.
Yes, Destry is still racing in 2013 and yes, he is still on
a Kawasaki, but the veteran racer has spent the past few
weeks piecing together his own privateer ride to contest
the GEICO AMA EnduroCross series.
"In February the team told me they couldn't do anything," Abbott said. "I was kind of hung out to dry to find
my own sponsors by that point so that sucked. It's a long
story, but it doesn't bother me. I'm excited to have new
sponsors on board."
