VOL. 52 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 15, 2015 P153
Well, it's just Baja. I started accumulating so
many injuries where in the States, I stayed rela-
tively injury free. Every time I went to Baja I came
back with something.
You could say the glory years with Honda when
I won the 1000 a couple times and had the 1x
plate a few times and ever since then trying to
go back down and win it on a Kawasaki, all the
crashes and the injuries that I suffered down in
Baja… And then in 2013 with the passing
of Kurt, I was actually going to call it right
there. Because I had a really bad crash
the same time, just earlier in the race than
Kurt had his accident. After that race, I
was over it. It was just a sign that I didn't need to
be down there.
Kurt Caselli's tragic accident cast a huge
shadow over your own crash, but you had a
bad one. What happened?
We had just unfortunately run out of gas and we
had lost about 20 minutes. So I think I was a little
antsy trying to make all that time up at once. In the
first 10 miles of my section I was hanging it out pretty
good, came up over a little rise and I still
don't' know exactly what I hit; a rock, or
more likely it was a stump, and I hit it hard
enough to actually break the hub of my
rear wheel. It sent me off the side of the
A win at the
opening round in
Taft started Bell's
WORCS series off
on the right foot.
