INTERVIEW
AMA SUPERCROSS AND 450 MOTOCROSS CHAMPION RYAN DUNGEY
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him dominate the race that night.
I would have never thought I'd
race against Kevin Windham,
but it depends how long their
careers are. It's pretty interest-
ing, really."
STAYING POWER
Seeing Windham hang around
long enough to race against
him—for a few years, actually—
has left a lasting impression on
Dungey. Windham was the kind
of racer who, if he trained as
hard as Carmichael, would've
likely been done racing long
before Dungey got a chance
to race against him. He'd have
gotten burned out. Carmichael,
by comparison, was done racing
by the time he was 27. Windham
was about 29 at the time, but
he raced for over six years after
Carmichael retired.
"Everybody's different,"
Dungey said. "What makes
some people tick doesn't neces-
sarily make other people tick. So
it's interesting. Sometimes you
wonder could it have been differ-
ent if they had a different per-
spective? Could they have gone
longer? Maybe. Would they have
been as dominant? I don't know.
It all depends. I think in our sport
you can be successful—when I
say 'successful' I mean you can
win races—but it's about how
much pressure are you going to
put on yourself and how much is
that going to weigh you down?
So it's not like it's a bad thing,
but it's just the constant grind
and people expecting you to be
Dungey says he can't win
championships without a
championship team.
