By Brett Dailey

I think I went a little overboard with the extent of the quotes for this show but I really enjoyed this episode. Blair Morgan is one of my favourite interviews and it was nice to get to know Eric Nye a little more. I might be a little heavy on the Gauldy quotes but he was good. Here are some highlights from show #5 for your reading pleasure.

“There’s no way he’s pumped about heading into Nanaimo either.”
Ryan Gauld on Tyler Medaglia losing points to Colton Facciotti in Regina and now having to race Nanaimo, a favourite track for both Facciotti and Dusty Klatt.

“I’m having a hard time with the ears inside the hat thing.”
Marc Travers on keeping up with the hat styles at the track.

“I think everyone on the Blackfoot team has peanut heads.”
Travers on Blackfoot’s penchant for hiring riders and staff that fit into small hats. He says that JSR was a pioneer of the tucked ears but that's just because he has a peanut head and needed to tuck his ears in to keep the hat on.

“If you are looking to get your son or daughter or nephew, niece, whatever, into racing, the best way to learn now—show up at a national. You get to watch the best in the world and you get to try one of the products that they used to ride.”
Gauld on the Yamaha Riding Academy which is available at all nationals for kids to try the sport of motorcycling on a TTR or PW. Click here for more: http://www.yamaha-motor.ca/yra/

“He’s got a shaggin wagon.”
Travers on Jeff Northrop’s preferred mode of transportation.

“I slept with Danny Brault for four straight nights this week.”
Gauldy on his newfound love for RXC’s editor, Danny Brault, adding,
“He was very comfortable, he was soft and caring, he was very friendly.”

“His bike flipped eight times, I bet.”
Gauldy on Kerim Fitz-gerald’s crash in Regina.

“I could go for an XL.”
Gauld complaining that his size Large shirt felt too tight.

“Yeah, going from what he was—a hard core dirt bike mechanic—to one of the most hated and most loved in the media right now.”
Gauld on the always entertaining and controversial Steve Matthes.

“Maybe they moisturize?”
Gauldy on why the Medaglia brothers, Tyler and Jeremy, look so young.

“It’s one of those things; When you’re parking people, I find that if nobody is happy, I’ve done it pretty close to right. If everyone is kind of bad mouthing me, I’ve done my job all right, so that’s kind of my barometer.”
Brett Lee on the constant struggle to give everyone a good—but not too good—parking spot in the pro pits.

“When [Tucker] Hibbert was in second place and he caught up to [Kyle] Beaton—there was quite a gap at one point—and he knocked away the seconds and got up to him, I thought, okay, this is where Beaton is going to feel the pressure and maybe right now he’s not ready to handle that pressure. But boy did he handle it; his defence was unbelievable.”
Travers on Beaton’s ability to fight off the pressure from Hibbert and win the first moto.

“He [Beaton] was riding a very … it was a risky line, right on the edge of the track, with a sharp embankment on the side of it. Basically, he was riding this line and it was a couple of inches either way. It was kind of a sketchy situation, and he went a couple of inches the wrong way and he ended up in some really long grass, way off the track. It was about a three or four foot drop down off the side of the track and he was in a section that.… He was off the track, and in a weird place and there were some giant [pause] giant rocks in the grass.”
Brett Lee describing Kyle Beaton’s nasty crash in the second moto, while leading.

“He went down into the valley part? Oh man!”
Gauld after realizing which section Beaton exited the track. Brett Lee added,
“It was an enchanted forest down there, there was all kinds of stuff in there.”

“Like everyone else, you get to the track and you do what you have to do to make a race happen.”
Lee on his many responsibilities, which sometimes include watering the track and flagging.

“As a rider myself, I can totally appreciate what Facciotti did with that track this weekend. He just … he found the lines, he found everything and anything that just made him go [faster].”
Gauld on his appreciation for Facciotti's 1-1 sweep in Regina.

“Look at how much bigger Steve Matthes is than Danny Brault. Wow, it looks like those old kibbles and bits commercials with the little dog that jumped over the bulldog. Hey come on, let’s get some bits, let’s get some bits.”
Gauld on Matthes and Brault hosting the RXC/Destroyer Films Moto Show.

“Kris Foster on the #64 KTM rode amazing this weekend. He went 9-8 for seventh overall and then behind him, Kyle McGlynn with a 10-7, he’s just coming back. And then in that second moto McGlynn, [Davey] Fraser, Shane Weibe and Foster went at it balls to the wall for like five laps. It was so awesome to watch; It was just smashing, going back and forth. They were hitting each other and it was just truly amazing racing because at the front of the pack it was pretty quiet as far as battling going on.”
Gauld on some of the good battles in the MX2 class.

“Little bit of bragging rights going on in that trailer. That’s kind of fun.”
Gauld on the Allison twins, Jared and Parker, finishing 17th and 18th overall in Regina

“It was two of the sickest turns in racing.”
Gauld on Morgan’s last-ditch effort to pass Medaglia for second at the checkers in the first moto.

“The more I get to know Simon [Homans] the more of a fan I become now that I don’t race him as much because, when I raced him, I hated that guy. But on the outside now looking in, he’s a great rider and you know you’re always going to get 110 from him, every time.”
Gauld on Homans' second place finish in the second moto and an inspiring podium speech.

“Both of those guys, 2 and 3 right now [Colton Facciotti and Dusty Klatt] are lovin’ it because they’re heading into Nanaimo so that bodes well there but you’ve got to think, if Tyler [Medaglia] can still hold onto this lead heading into the last three, you’ve got to think he’s feeling good because he’s got Sand-Del-Lee as his bona fide kicker. You know, because obviously he hauls the mail there. And then maybe a guy like a Keast can get in the way of a Facciotti or mix the points up as well at a race like that. Because when you get the sand, you always get that guy that can get in the way and make the points screw up a little bit.”
Gauld on the points chase in the MX1 class and Medaglia's lead.

“Yeah, definitely. [I'm] actually pretty pumped about that one, being able to catch the points leader [Tyler Medaglia] and bump him in Blair Morgan corner.”
Blair Morgan on catching and bumping Medaglia in the corner that was named after him, adding:
“I kind of figured I better help my buddy Colton out, get the points lead, so I better get myself in between them.”

“Yeah, Colton’s pretty pissed at me actually [laughs]”
Morgan on not making the pass.

“I’m not surprised about how well he [Facciotti] is doing, and how he’s killing everybody. After hanging out with him in Georgia I figured that was going to happen anyway. I was pretty surprised on how he kind of turned into a little bit of a wus [laughs] all the other years and now he’s riding with a broken collarbone. I mean, it’s super painful. I’m in the truck up there with him and he’s like ... his eyes are bloodshot red because it’s hurting so much and he just goes and puts it all out on the line.”
Morgan on his impression of Facciotti this year.

“He [Facciotti] is so smooth and fluid and he uses no energy so he’s…. Like after that first moto in Regina, he wasn’t even sweating, he was just sitting there like he was coasting around the track. I think if he was any other type of rider, I think the injury would hurt him more.”
Morgan on Colton's ability to win despite his collarbone injury.

“I actually wished it would have been really dry and hard pack everywhere, but then it gets too dusty so it’s kind of a … there’s no happy medium at that place because the sun’s out and it’s dry prairie winds going on it, it dries out so fast.”
Morgan on the balance between heavily watering the Regina track and letting it get too dry and dusty.

“Yeah, I was just trying to show him a wheel. I think I was pressuring him a little bit and he was making a few mistakes. Just that first moto, at the end of the moto, like the last two laps, he was popping out of ruts and he was maybe trying a little too hard. It was like he was getting a little tired so I was just trying to pressure him into a mistake and, you know, actually he was riding well. Whenever he made a mistake, he would just correct it instantly and, you know, the roost was pretty bad so it was hard for me to follow really closely so I had to gap myself a little bit and then charge in and go for a pass but yeah, I felt good about being able to hang with Tyler because he’s riding really well this year and he’s really fast and yeah, I’m really happy with the first moto ride for sure.”
Morgan on his battles with Tyler Medaglia.

“Talking about ’99 Blair, I remember that race because I led that race and you, you bastard, crashed in the first turn. Second moto that day, you crashed in the first turn and you came all the way back and won that moto. I was so frickin mad at you ... because I didn’t know you went down in the first turn until I saw the TV show. I remember watching with my parents and I whipped a bottle of water at the television. I was so mad because—John [Nelson] was so mad at me at the end of that day because I threw away the lead and ah, that was a bad day for my career and you … you were a part of that, thanks.”
Gauld on losing to Morgan at the Nanaimo national in 1999.

“Keast is a good guy. I don’t really know him, he’s kind of new to the scene and I know you guys out east love him and the Racer X guys love him so ... the Racer X Ontario guys ... I like hearing about him all the time. Every time I open up Racer X, it’s Kyle Keast this, Kyle Keast that. This is what Kyle Keast had for breakfast today and this is what he had for supper!”
Morgan on Danny Brault's love affair with Keast.

“That makes a couple of us, I don’t like it either…”
Eric Nye on his distaste for his Eric Nye, The Science Guy nickname. For the record, what is wrong with The Science Guy? It’s an excellent handle. I googled it for some background info and found that it’s so catchy, someone named Bill has stolen it on him already! Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjpVQbNpGKo

“Yeah, for sure, I can’t complain about that. Thirty eight points is quite a bit. I mean, we're already four races in so I’m happy about that but yeah, the last two races haven’t gone the way I’d hoped but I guess they worked out for the points, that’s for sure.”
Nye on his substantial lead in the MX2 class.

“I think that makes Shawn [Porter] a little happier. I saw a smile on his face when I didn’t go out for the first practice at Regina [laughs]. It’s just been so muddy. Well, Morden was [muddy] with the rain. I knew the track, it’s been identical for the last couple of years, they haven’t changed it, so that wasn’t a problem. And then in Regina, I had a feeling it was going to be muddy that morning so I’m glad I made the right decision not going out in it.”
Nye on skipping the early morning practice in both Morden and Regina

“For sure, when I heard it was nine rounds I got super pumped and I just trained all winter, rode and [was] just shooting for the championship.”
Nye on the new nine-round MX2 format

“It’s definitely tough, you know? It’s a tough position to be in.”
Nye on the added pressure of being the points leader.

“Casey Lytle got us set up with some carburetors from down in KTM USA.”
Nye on some factory KTM parts on their way to the KTM Canada team but the bags were lost in transit.

“I talked to Andy [White] this afternoon on my way home from the airport and he’s doing good. The doctors tell him to lay low, just to rest, because I guess the more he rests, the better off it’ll be. I guess he’s walking up to maybe 20 to 30 minutes a day now, which is pretty good but he says that feels like he ran for a couple of hours, how tired he is after that. He’s just relaxing; he’s happy with the way everything has been going so that’s good.”
Nye on KTM’s Team Manager, Andy White, who is at home recovering from complications from a blood clot.

“He was a buttery … a buttery tart this weekend.”
Gauld on how sweet and happy Cernic’s Kawasaki’s driver, Kelly Zawyrucha was on the weekend.

“It was cool, I was pumped to be there.”
Steve Matthes on his trip to Regina for the national

“Travers asked me if I would follow Felix around and be his spotter and kind of point out the battles. He was like, ‘hey, you know, we’re going to run,’ and I was like alright cool. I didn’t really know what he was talking about but I’m like okay, I’ll run. I’m not much of a runner, I don’t know if you guys are aware of that, but he was getting into it and then I would look around and he would be gone dude, like Ben Johnson sprinting across the field.”    
Matthes following Felix around for the TV coverage.

“Obviously Facciotti, I mean wow. On a track that—Travers I think you and I were talking about this—it wasn’t very technical and it was hard to pull away from dudes because everybody was doing the same stuff, Facciotti laid it down, I mean he yarded those guys. That was damn impressive.”
Matthes on who impressed him in Regina

“I mastered the mental part of Sunday night!”
Gauld on how important the mental game is in motocross.

“You might have just spilled some beans there.”
Rick Sheren on Travers pointing out that SixSixOne Racing Canada has picked up the TAG line.

If you missed the show, or just want to confirm that Gauldy really said, “He was a buttery … a buttery tart this weekend.” you can listen to the show #5 archive right here. Until next week...