OFF ROAD
GEICO AMA ENDUROCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 5/OCTOBER 4, 2014
NATIONAL WESTERN COMPLEX/DENVER, COLORADO
P84
My Own Race:
33 TAYLOR ROBERT 4
TH
PLACE
Red Bull KTM's Taylor Robert continues to push hard and
claw his way toward the podium in EnduroCross, but hasn't
made the breakthrough just yet. Robert rode fast and ag-
gressive in Denver to collect his third consecutive fourth-
place finish. Though it wasn't the finish he was looking for,
Robert admitted that he was feeling 100% for the first time
since his early season crash. "My night was pretty good. I
won my heat race. In the main I was third or fourth coming
out of the first turn. After that it got pretty heated. There
was definitely a lot of battling going on. I definitely got
pretty aggressive with Cody [Webb] a couple times. The
second time we got together we both went down; I was
kind of bummed on that because a couple guys got around
me. I caught back up to Brownie and it was just a six-lap
battle trying to get around him. He's got a lot of experience
and knows how to ride a wide track. So I was just playing
around with that, just trying to be patient and find a spot
where I could pass him without causing too much chaos.
On the second-to-last lap I got him and then just rode to the
finish line and ended up fourth. It's not right where I wanted
to finish, but it's the best I've felt all year."
8 DESTRY ABBOTT 12
TH
PLACE
It was once again mixed results for the Abbott family, but
Destry admits it's pretty great watching his 16-year-old son,
Cooper, progress in EnduroCross. "Cooper qualified for
the amateur main and then the expert main and got some
points in the pro class so that was cool. I made it out of
the heat and I just felt really good and then four or five
laps into the main event, I went down in the wood pile and
got a piece of wood stuck in my rear wheel. I didn't know
and I kept trying to go and got stuck. It just bums me out
because I rode better than what the results show. It's not
too often I leave thinking, 'I'm not too happy with that,' but
today was one of those days. I'm getting older and I want
those good results. This was one I thought I'd have, but
that's racing. I'm ecstatic for Cooper and seeing how far
he's coming."
Haaker fought
off Blazusiak
to claim his
second win of
the season.
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