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INTERVIEW 2015 WORLD OFF-ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES CHAMPION ROBBY BELL P154 course at 50 or 60 miles and hour into all these trees and bushes, and I think the third bush is the one that sent me over onto my head. It didn't knock me out, but there were two minutes that I don't remember. I actually had a lingering ankle and shoulder injury from that that went well into 2014. And yet you returned to Baja in 2014. Through 2014 I started to think about it more and more and I didn't really want that year to be my last memory of Baja, because in 2013 I crashed and hurt myself at each of the events. I wanted to go down one more time and race for the win and ride a little different than I had in the year that I moved on from Honda where I was just all about the win and hanging it out, taking chances. I wanted to kinda ride within myself and have a good experience with Baja and leave it at that. That must have been a very emo- tional decision. It was. I had a lot of talks with my wife about it because she definitely had an opinion about Baja. As you can imagine she just didn't want to see me hurt anymore. So it was a lot of heart to hearts and basically me promising her I wasn't going to go down there and hang it out. I was going to go down and ride within myself and have a positive experience with Baja and leave it at that. So the fact that I was, one, able to keep that promise to her, and two, able to earn the victory, it was like, okay, "I don't need to go back there anymore." Honestly, it couldn't have gone any better and it couldn't be a better place to end my Baja career. I've achieved more than I could ever dream down there and that's just a perfect place to end my career in Baja. Looking to the future, what lies ahead for your career? I definitely don't want to be the 40-year-old still racing competi- tively. I just turned 30 in Septem- ber, so it's not like I feel old by any stretch, and I'm not burnt out or anything. I'm actually probably enjoying riding and training and racing more than I ever have in my life. It's just that there are new challenges I want to face and new skills that I want to build and a new career that I want to build, I sup- pose. I want to enjoy another year of racing a full schedule and then I think start to scale back. My wife and I want to start a family pretty soon, and I just feel like I want to build the next chapter instead of hanging onto this chapter. What is on the program for 2016? For next year, my plan is to race WORCS and defend my number one plate. I'm also going to chase the full Big 6 Grand Prix series, and I know for sure I'll be rac- ing the Elsinore Grand Prix and probably the 24 Hours of Glen Helen. Beyond that, I'm going to be helping develop the Precision Concepts off-road race team and helping Justin Seeds and Justin Morgan to improve. Hopefully we'll have a couple pretty big announce- ments very soon as far as compa- nies coming on board for 2016. CN A victory at the Primm finale was the icing on the cake for Robby.