2019 WORCS, SPRINT HERO & ISDE CHAMPION TAYLOR ROBERT
P74
Interview
"I LOVE THE
TECHNIQUE
SIDE OF
ENDUROCROSS,
THE TECHNICAL
ASPECT OF IT
AND JUST THE
CHAOS OF IT WAS
FUN AT TIMES—
AT OTHER
TIMES IT WAS
FRUSTRATING."
at the beginning of the season
because it wasn't my fault. If
I'd crashed and I'm the only
one involved, then it's all on
me—it's frustrating, but I can
understand it and swallow
it—but [that one] when I'd won
the first few races and every-
thing was going well, then a
kid goes the wrong way on
the track and breaks both my
arms. It's incredibly frustrat-
ing!
To come out [last] year and
win as many races as I did
and really put a stamp on what
I feel I should've done the last
three years felt pretty good.
People have short mem-
ories, especially when it
comes to racing history,
and they forget you've
done a bunch of different
types of racing.
In 2014, I was able to do
EnduroCross, hard enduros—I
did Erzberg, Sea to Sky and
all the hard enduros here in
the United States—and in '15,
I did [FIM] SuperEnduro [in
Europe], EnduroCross and a
handful of hard enduros. In
'16 I did the full, what I call the
Euro tour—I did SuperEnduro
and World Enduro then hare
and hound and WORCS and
everything.
It's been pretty cool to get
to do all these different dis-
ciplines and do well at them.
I've won races in just about all
of them, so it feels pretty good
to be able to do that.
Looking at all the differ-
ent types of racing you've
done, have you developed
a favorite?
Enduro racing like ISDE-
style racing is probably the
one I'm most passionate
about and the one that I work
the hardest at, just because
Injuries have
slowed Robert's
championship
progress but he
avoided that in
2019 and came
away with the title.
