WORCS CHAMPION GIACOMO REDONDI
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Interview
Since most of our readers aren't
familiar with you, provide some
background on you and your racing
accomplishments before this season.
My career started in moto-
cross and I became five-time
Italian Champion, then I finished
third in the European Champion-
ship in 2007. Then I switched
to the 250 and the next year I
won the Italian championship
and I did one off-road race at
home. [KTM off-road racing
manager Fabio] Farioli was there;
he asked me if I wanted to try
off-road racing and of course I
said, yes, because he was with
the best team.
So I did off-road racing and
after two years I became 125cc
Enduro World Champion. I fin-
ished second three times in the
Junior class. In my last oppor-
tunity in 2016—because it's for
those 23 and under, and I was
23 that year—I won 15 GPs out of
16. It was super-good, that sea-
son. I also won the SuperEnduro
Junior Championship in 2014.
Last year, after I finished the
2016 enduro GPs, I was think-
ing that the offer that I had for
racing in Europe and enduro
GP was not as good as my
level [deserved], so I decided
to make my dream come true
and come to the United States.
I did everything by my own ef-
forts so I was lucky but super-
happy and proud that I won the
WORCS Championship.
Didn't you do some races in the U.S.
before that?
I raced some [AMA] Enduro-
Cross in 2014 because it was
training for the 2014-'15 Super-
Enduro season, because in Italy
we don't have any EnduroCross
tracks to even practice on. I
spent one month at Cody Webb's
house so it was super-nice and I
need to say thanks again to him
and his family.
This year when I had a break
[during the traditional WORCS
summer break] I went to Reno
to race the EnduroCross round
there also and I trained a little
bit during the week with Colton
Right after wrapping up the WORCS title, Redondi
headed to Chile where he represented Italy on its
World Trophy team that claimed third place; he
finished third in the E3 class.
"My mom loves
the United States
more than Italy
now, same as me!"
