INTERVIEW I ROAD RACER TYLER SCOTT
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season crash, but overall, it was
pretty much a perfect year.
We didn't know what we were
going to do for this year. I didn't
want to go to Twins Cup. I had of-
fers, but I didn't really want to go.
So, I thought it would be better to
just go straight into Supersport.
We made a KTM Duke 790 into
a road racer with sport bike body
work—that thing was pretty cool,
but the way you had to ride it was
then they put so many restrictions
on it at that point and KTM wasn't
really wanting to come back.
We had this opportunity to race
the RC and we weren't sure if it
was going to be competitive. We
won the very first race. So, it was
a fun year battling with Ben Gloddy
before he went to the twins.
It was a good year. No DNFs,
never crashed the bike during
the season. We had one pre-
for the Spanish CEV FIM series.
I partnered with them and had
some mechanical issues and had
some bad crashes, which mental-
ly really set me back. Then I didn't
get the ride in 2020 for Red Bull
Rookies Cup. Rocco Landers got
it, but he only did one race, and
he didn't do that well.
In 2020, I did the Spanish
series again, but on a different
team with the Honda NSF250,
which I had been previously
riding in the States. I learned so
(Right) Obviously
Scott's flat track
heritage hasn't hurt
his adaptation to
road racing. (Below)
The Junior Cup
Championship
came via a single-
cylinder KTM against
a sea of twin-
cylinder Kawasaki
Ninja 400s.
much more again in 2020 and
got a best finish of 15th—that's
huge over there when there's 60
kids within two seconds.
I took that from Spain, all my
knowledge, and came back to
America and won 11 out of 16
races and took the Junior Cup
Championship on the KTM. We
were kind of worried the begin-
ning. We knew Alex Dumas ran it
[the KTM] in 2018 and won, but
