VOL. 56 ISSUE 14 APRIL 9, 2019 P103
I honestly had a lot of family
problems and just a bunch of
stuff. Didn't really have a bike
lined up. Robby only got a hold
of me last winter around January,
so that's the only thing that re-
ally popped up. He seemed like
he really was wanting to move
forward with it. I think that's why
I'm here now is because of Rob.
He's honestly the main person
why I'm here and why I'm racing.
I just want to thank him a lot for
everything he's done.
Did you enter a program to
get your license back?
Yeah. I had to restart the Road
to Recovery. I was still with Esten-
son when I was doing my Road to
Recovery when I got suspended
in 2017, but just with all the family
stuff that's happened, it was just
bad. Just a bad deal. I ended up
stopping doing it and just took
some time off. I think I needed
some time off the bike. I've been
racing since I was four years old,
so it was kind of nice to get away
from the racing side of things.
After 2018 I really wanted to get
back on the motorcycle and start
racing again. I missed it too much.
Missed the people in the paddock
and missed all my fans. Always
had fans asking me when I was
coming back. They were kind of
bugging me with it, so I wanted to
come back and show them that
I'm still the rider that I was.
You have. Do you have a job
outside of racing right now?
I wouldn't say it's a job, but I
work at D&D with Rob. He owns
a shop. His parents do. So I work
Gauthier has
his sights set on
the Twins class.
What were you saying about
Charlotte –what happened?
When I got suspended, they
took that win away.
When I watched you in 2017,
I don't mind saying I thought
you were one of the most nat-
urally-gifted riders I've seen in
a long time come out. I'm sure
many people have told you
that. What happened in 2017
at Charlotte? Did you see it
coming? Was it a random thing
that they tested you?
It was just a random drug test
that AFT does to everybody. They
just got me. I'm not going to lie. I
was being dumb, and I shouldn't
have been doing what I was do-
ing. That's just the past. I can't
really change it. I'm just going to
look forward from here. It's never
going to happen again. I just want
to move forward and try my best
on the motorcycle and do as best
as I can in this championship and
see where it takes me.
What is the reason that you
sat out last year?
definitely was happy the way I
was riding. I had some very good
steeds behind me. I think that
helped a lot too, having good
motors and fast bikes. I never re-
ally got to have the fastest bikes.
That's why I think another thing
why I'm so good at it is I wasn't
on the fastest bikes growing up,
and it made me try harder.
