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YAMAHA , I ju st d on't have the enthusiasm right _ now to go racin g. _W h a t about the talk t ha t y ou wer e look in g to go car racin g? j Well, I've gotten into this car stuff down " here (in No rth Carolina), going to the races and stuff, and I'm not ev en too - excited abou t that. It's all politics. You ·lived in Indianapolis for a while, too, didn't you? , Yes. I actually moved there while I was sti ll racing bec au se I wanted to be in a enviro nbigger city with a. race-ori en ted " ment. And the Indy-car stuff intri gues me. They're righton the edge lik e we · are wit h the motorcycles . But it's quite a " different grou p of peopl e running tha t. I - don't even know where I'd get my foot vln the door. It's huge money, and you 've Vgot to have a lot of money to get into it. -IH ow did you wind up in Charlotte? I ve got a bu d dy who races t h o s e 1 NASCAR Sup erTrucks d own her e, and he invited me down here. So I just came · dowri and have been hanging ou t and 1 going to the races . It's a good time, an d I've met so me very good people d own - here, trying to get my feet wet. A lot of them th at I've talked to would like to see more motorcycle racers in the cars, beca use they know that the motorcycle guys will race hard, bu t it gets bac k to · the same old thi ng . There's such a hu ge market here that an yon e can dri ve a car J if they 've go t $3 million to spend . · You've also mentioned that you might try s p ri n t-car racing, which would se em to be the most lo gical s te p for someone with your background. My dad has a friend in Michigan who has a sprin t car, and this guy would like to see me take a school and see what happens, because he would like to have someone local driving hi s ca r . I'll be heading back up to Michigan soo n, and hopefully I can see what his plans are or if he's still interested. And that's not saying that I'd even like to jump into a sp rint car. I'd like to take the school just to do that for fun, I not necessarily to try and go racing. j Have you even kept up on what's been go ing on in the Grand National Cham~ p ionsh ip Series? ' N o. I've lea rn ed more from talkin g to you the last couple times than from an yI tning else. I haven't even read a Cycle - News s ince October o f la st yea r . I thought I would go to Parkersburg and watch that race bec au se it's only abo u t five hours from her e, but I didn't d o it. 'H ow wo ul d you resp ond to dirt track fans who mi ght feel that you h ave let them down? It seems like the un spoI ke n ru le i s that a top rider suc h a s , yourself sh ou ld b e ab oard a top mo torcycle and contes ting the series for pos: terity's sake. ~ I fee l b ad , bec ause I kn ow that th ey w ant to see m e o ut the re, but th en again, I d on 't fe el bad . I a m m y own pe rson , an d I make my own d ecision s. It (racing) is so mething I don't want to •do. I know that they expect yo u - when yo u' re healthy - to be on a motorcycle. ' It ' s li ke w he n p e opl e c hange jobs ; b eca u se th ey're tired of d oing what ; they' re doing . Well , I go t tired of crapp y race tracks and tir ed o f having to ~.see an orthoped ic surgeon after every ( season. ( don't want to seem like an ass hole f or anything like that , but I just want do ~some t hi n g d ifferen t with my life . I'm , not w a lk ing away or saying that I'm . totally done with it - dirt tra ck h a s brought some of th e best times of my , life - but people do change. I've enjoyed , m y ca reer, and I don't ha ve to prove anything to anyone. c:x .. 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