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(Left) Magoo three-wheels it while dog Endo looks on. (Above) Robby Henry is an expert at running the winch. (Above I,ft) Tr~cy and Magoo set up a number of poses for us, but clowned around enough to get caught red-candid. (Above right) Danny and Randy Wright create waves in the forest. (Below) Danny Sr. and Jr. (Continued/rom page 6) hurts him a lot. He used to say things about it and that's why we kind of split apart and were mad at each other for awhile. I started out on my own and began supporting myself and that made me realize how much he had done for me. I had never realized that before." Danny's experience on his own and his relationship with Tracy eventually brought him around. He's been with Tracy for four years now and they plan to get married when there is a big enough break in Magoo's racing schedule. Danny has taken on a lot more responsibility and his racing has taken on a whole different meaning. Danny will be staying with Honda for 1983 and is already thinking about the next 10 years of his career. ''I'd like to race the 500cc Nationals this year and maybe next year. Then in 1985 I'd like to go to Europe and stay there for six or seven years and beat Roger DeCoster's five-time World Champion record." Magoo would also like to win a Supercross championship, but admits he has a lot of trouble with Super• .cross. ''I'm really'uptight in Supe cross. I can't let myself go. It seems like every time I ride a Supercross I get smoked. When I ride outdoors, I can smoke the nation as I pass them and - leave them. In Supercross they pass me and leave me." One of the features that sets Supercross apart from outdoor motocross is the style of jumps. Since Danny is known for his outrageous jumping showmanship, we thought it was ironic that Supercross bothered him. "I don't have enough room in Supercross. I like it when I can jump all the jumps. If I hada long enough run I'd jump them all. I'm more of an outdoor rider. I think I could do real good in Europe because that is the kind of track I'm used to." Magoo is used to the Europeantype tracks because he has so many set up in the meadows and forests around his home. As we four-wheeled our way around the area, he would point out countless places where he had tracks set up. "We go riding a lot. I take a bottle of Bel-Ray and $10 with me, and my friend Robby Henry and I go riding all day." Besides all the riding he does, when the National~ !lPprqach Danny ~illl begin .~ own trsiHing:pfOg'ram. W I asked what he did for training and what he thought his weakness were. "I try to get on a good program. Tracy starts cooking balanced meals, I try to eat at the same time, go to bed at the time, eat my vitamins at the same time and maintain the routine so that nothing changes. I run three or four miles a day and try to stay away from greasy food, but sometimes it can't be helped. When I fly into New York or somewhere like that, I'm stuck with eating grease, but when I'm home I try to eat good. "I think my biggest problem is my head. I have to work on that because when I've had problems, it wasn't that I was tired, it was that I wasn't concentrating right. I never concentrated 100% on what I was doing, but now I've basically got my head together and that's been the most important change for me." Danny has gone through an awful lot of changes since he began supporting his own racing, settled down with Tracy and won the Trans-USA - Support Series. Besides the changes in his personal life, and getting close to his father again, probably the big, gest change was his rise to factory • rider status. 0 0" 0