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P120 INTERVIEW I AMA ENDUROCROSS & U.S. HARD ENDURO CHAMPION TRYSTAN HART When did you first come to the U.S. from Canada to race EnduroCross events? My first one was 2012, so 11 years ago. I was 15. I only did like two EnduroCross races that year, and I didn't even make the amateur night show. 2013, I only did maybe one or two again and was barely making the amateur night shows. In 2014, I made my first pro main in Boise. What part of Canada are you from? Western Canada. The major city closest to me is Calgary, or we live a little bit closer to Banff, the national park. Most people know Banff. That's an hour from us. It sounds like you are from a pretty remote and small town? Yeah. It's only 3000-5000 people. I never even say the name of it, but it's called Invermere. But it was such a crazy schedule this year. I've only been home maybe 15 to 20 days. Where are you based mostly, or do you even have a home base when you're in the U.S.? Are you down near KTM in Temecula, or are you all over the place? To be honest, this year I've been telling people my home base is the airport, the airplane, a ho - tel, and our rental car. That's where you can find me these days. During EnduroCross, I usually stay in the Temecula area because they've got the test track, or San Diego because we have a track there, too. So, during EnduroCross I stay there. Then during hard enduro, I'm usually just traveling everywhere. I'm pretty sure your first year on the factory KTM was the 2020 EnduroCross series? Yeah. 2020, I was riding for the RPM KTM team, and halfway through the year, KTM called me up for some of the hard enduros, and I of - ficially joined the KTM team for the 2020 Enduro- Cross series. Which other teams did you race for before the FMF KTM Factory Racing team? I was SRT for '17, which was the first year I ever got an EnduroCross podium, so that was a pretty big year for me. Then '18, I raced for SRT Husky. That was the year I beat Cody Webb straight up at the Costa Mesa [California] En - duroCross, which was a pretty massive deal for me. Then, the next race was at Reno and that's when I broke my wrist and missed half of the 2019 season. When you first showed up at those Enduro - Cross events, your brother was racing, too, right? Yeah, Wyatt. He came to one this year for the first time since probably 2017. EnduroCross Champion Trystan Hart (center) went up against stiff competition in this year's series, which included defending champ Jonny Walker (left) and former champ Colton Haaker.