INTERVIEW
FMF/KTM FACTORY OFF-ROAD RACER TAYLOR ROBERT
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a long time. Any time they're at
a race, I'm watching on live tim-
ing and trying to keep up with
it. It's weird not being there and
you always kinda put yourself in
their shoes like, 'Oh, I wonder
where I would be finishing if
I was there right now.' At the
same time I was glad I got to try
something new.
You recently did the Phoe-
nix round of EnduroCross
and finished an impressive
second! That must have been
fun.
Yeah, it was a fun event
because it was no pressure for
me. I haven't done any other
[EnduroCross] races and I don't
plan on doing any other ones so
I just went out for the hometown
one. The stadium is only about
15 minutes from my house so
that was a nice change to do a
race that's so close to home. I
practiced a couple days before
the race, which was the first time
I've ridden EnduroCross in six
or seven months so just kinda
jumped right into it and luckily
I liked the track and I did pretty
good. The track was a really
good combination of some do-
able jumps—but not everybody
was doing them—and a really
technical rock pile and matrix.
Does it make you wish
you could be racing the full
season?
No. EnduroCross is definitely
fun, but I don't know anybody
that actually enjoys putting
down practice motos on Endu-
roCross. It just beats you up so
much. It's hard. There's nothing
easy about it. I don't really miss
that part of it. It was nice to go
out there and do well without a
whole lot of practice under me
but at the same time, I'm pretty
content with what I think I'm go-
ing to do next year. CN
Robert ended his season on a winning note, topping his E2 class and also taking his first EnduroGP (overall) win.
