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Just happy to keep working in this di-
rection and happy to start the season
in this way.
You came in with a lot of fan-
fare, winning the Daytona 200
pole, your experience in Red
Bull Rookies. How did you come
to the decision to go to race Mo-
toAmerica?
Really when this opportunity came
up, it was over any other opportunity I
had. Of course, I come from the Rook-
ies Cup for years, so the MotoGP pad-
dock had really been home up to this
point. I know many people over there,
and I've made lots of family friends,
many teams, just lots of contacts. But
at the end of the day, right now Europe,
it's difficult to be there. If you're not
winning, you have to be paying. If you
don't have money and you don't have
sponsors, it's very difficult. So it was a
difficult time for my parents and me just
in general for my family to really do ev-
erything, especially we had to move to
Spain and been there for three years.
It's just really been a whole process.
It wasn't the easiest of things, but I'm
very happy that we got this opportunity
to be here in MotoAmerica with Team
Hammer, especially now we're really
just getting settled again with my family.
We're back here in the States. Taking
things step by step really and just happy
to be here.
Did you grow up in South
Florida?
I grew up in Miami.
Is that where you were born?
Yeah. I was born in Miami and
raised in Miami until three years ago
You might want to get Kelly's
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