5 Minutes With...Kevin Windham February 07, 2008
“Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.” So said author
Lorne Michaels. It’s a pretty good way to describe what happened
to Team Torco Racing Fuels Honda rider Kevin Windham on
Saturday night while circulating the super-technical racetrack the
fine people at Live Nation had placed upon the base paths of
Angel Stadium. After closing in on the blue rear fender of
championship-leader Chad Reed, Windham went to work on
Reed, shadowing him as he tried to take the lead from the
otherwise dominant frontrunner in Monster Energy Supercross.
Calling into action his ever-smooth style on a motocross bike,
Windham used the quirky obstacles and rhythm sections on the
track to his advantage to pull even on Reed on more than one
occasion.
However, as the 20-lap race wound down to the halfway mark,
Windham visibly slowed, and both Honda’s Davi Millsaps and
Team Kawasaki’s Tim Ferry ultimately whizzed by the number 14
bike. To the 40,000 present in Anaheim (as well as the million or
so who watched the race on CBS on Sunday afternoon) it looked
like Windham may have become fatigued or lost his way, but that
was not the case at all. full stry & interview on racerxill.com