WORCS CHAMPION GIACOMO REDONDI
P130
Interview
me—and then I had my mom
who always followed me and two
friends that helped me out like a
practice bike mechanic. When
I need to do some work on the
engine, I went to Pro Circuit and
every time they do the job.
Did you ride the 450 XC-F or SX-F?
The SX-F, the motocross bike
with a Rekluse clutch and Pro
Circuit exhaust and that's it—
completely standard bike.
The Rekluse, was it the automatic or
manual clutch?
The regular. At Six Days, I'm
using the automatic because
for the tight stuff I don't need to
think about stalling the bike, so
I'm more relaxed and I can push
better. From 2016 when I jumped
on the Honda I was using the
automatic clutch.
How long did it take you to adapt to
WORCS-style of racing?
On the 20th of December
2017, I broke my collarbone, and
on the first of January, I flew to
Los Angeles, so I waited 15 days
beyond that to more or less relax
with my injury and then I started
doing moto, moto every day—all
day and all night long!
Every time we see what
progress was made and we try
to improve from the training. We
tried to make everything work
out perfect. I didn't know with
a big tank how many laps I can
do, so IMS give me the tank
so we think, "Okay, I need to
finish races without running out
of fuel. So I rode until I ran out
then we checked the time in the
sand, in the hard-pack, in the
super-fast stuff—in all different
conditions because in WORCS
you can find completely dif-
ferent conditions from race to
race, like Vegas is kind of like
EnduroCross, Sand Hollow in
Utah is completely a desert
"This year
I wanted to
race with my
number—18—but
they said no; it
was taken. So I did
81 because I was
on the other side
of the world so I
did it backwards
[laughs]."
He raced in a KTM in the U.S.,
but when he participated in the
occasional race in Europe, such
as the ISDE, he rode a Honda.
