RUST magazine: Rust#7

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gain a one minute twenty second lead, was
thinking perhaps I could do a repeat of my
victory at Eddy’s Extreme two weeks earlier.
But somehow Graham (Jarvis) managed to
claw this back in under a lap. I must have
missed something somewhere in terms of
race lines. Jarvis passed me again – and
pulled over a minute! Despite feeling
relatively fit and able to push hard in the
latter half of the race I was unable to catch
him and had to settle for second place. First
loser! As an amateur that’s what I have to
face now. To beat a full-time pro, especially
one as brilliant as Graham, is super-tough.
In the circumstances I can’t be bitter, but
when you’ve spent your life racing for wins, it
does take some adjusting to the new reality.
EWC, not EWC…
Moving forward in my career I’m a little
unsure on what’s around the corner.
I absolutely love riding motorbikes, I wouldn’t
be doing it otherwise. Over the last three
years I’ve still been competitive in a number
of disciplines, I have victories at the Enduro
World Championship, victories at the Super
Enduro World Championship and of course
victories out here in the Extreme Enduro
world. The main problem for me at present is
the lack of funding to concentrate my time
entirely on one or the other. Not only that, I