RUST magazine: Rust#4

Pit Girl
said: “My 2015 season was very up and down -
literally! I didn’t want to do another serious race,
this is just a big party!” And I think Alex Marquez said
it best: “This is for fun, this is for the world to enjoy!”
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AFTER A SHORT break for Christmas and New Year it
was back on the plane on New Year’s Day for Round two
of the SuperEnduro Championship. If you thought the
Polish round was good, Germany proved what really
makes a great SuperEnduro. An expertly built track with
new obstacles such as the Wall of Death made for a
brilliant night of entertainment. Crashes began early on
with Taddy Blazusiak ending up in the grandstand in
practice; “It was a ******* stupid crash. That section was
like a BMX track but I still crashed!” he laughed, slightly
embarrassed by his error.
Man of the moment was Husqvarna’s Colton Haaker;
the young American doesn’t take anything too seriously
and whilst he has demonic pace he can rarely manage
to stay on two wheels long enough to make it count. In
one practice session the onlookers were uneasy from the
start with Colton throwing shapes that the Husky really
didn’t want to make. Eventually it cried ‘enough’ and
threw Haaker onto the ground. The stadium went quiet,
but it wasn’t long before he leapt to his feet and gave
everyone a thumbs-up. This huge pre-race crash did
nothing to dampen his spirit and he went on to claim
his first SuperEnduro podium: “I’m happy with the result
but I’m still way off the top guys. It was mostly the sand
section that got me! Dude, there’s like sand monsters
from Spiderman in there! They reach up and grab you
and it’s like: “Hey, get off me, man!” Needless to say,
he’s a popular guy around the paddock.
Fellow podium sitter Jonny Walker, who rode smoothly
all evening, missed out on the overall win by just a single
point, despite winning the final race of the night. In true
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