5 Minutes with .... Kevin Windham January, 03, 2008
It was déjà vu. Three years ago, on January 7, 2005, I was
speaking with Kevin Windham immediately after the press
conference for the season-opening Anaheim SX. Outside
the stadium windows, the skies were lead gray and the
clouds were oversaturated with moisture. The track was
covered in plastic and the weather people were claiming
Noah’s Ark-style rainstorms were luring off the Pacific
Ocean. Kevin Windham, sporting a big beard of facial hair,
looked concerned. And he, like the weather people, knew it
was coming. And did it ever. Round one of the 2005 season
was one of the gnarliest, rain-lashed, mud-splashed races
in modern supercross history. And Windham won it.
Now here we were on Thursday, January 3, 2008. The
press conference had just completed and here, once again,
was Kevin Windham was before me, speaking into my tape
recorder and looking out at a covered track the weather
people were claiming would be besieged by in rain in less
than 24 hours. And not only was he irked by the threat of a
multi-day winter storm, he was also a little peeved that he,
unlike his competitors Grand Langston, Tim Ferry, Chad
Reed and James... full story & interview on racerxill.com