Tommy Searle RacerX Interview -ozzy go-

5 Minutes With...Tommy Searle and James Dobb January 25, 2008
It was pretty humorous, really. I had set out to interview 2007 Vice-World
Motocross Champion Tommy Searle and his friend and business manager
James Dobb in the pit area of Angel Stadium. The problem was, though,
that the place, between roaring rock music, DJs, revving motorcycles and
thousands of fans holding thousands of conversations, was just way too
crowded and noisy to knock out any sort of interview. That’s when the good
folks at Alpinestars offered up one of their Sprinter vans for us to sit within
and talk.

So there we were: This writer in the driver’s seat, 18-year-old Tommy
Searle in the passenger seat, and 2001 125cc World Champion James Dobb
sitting on a stack of boot boxes between us: Three hard-going travelers
telling war stories without even moving. It looked goofy enough that more
than one person stopped in their tracks to look trough the windshield and
wonder what in the hell we were doing.

But the upside of it all was that it made for a great conversation and both
Dobb and his understudy were both eager to talk about their racing
careers; just like Dobb, who came to America to race in the early 1990s
before going back to become a world champion, Searle was about to mirror
the same journey. In California to ride, train and watch some supercross
before heading back to Europe to take on Antonio Cairoli for the MX2 World
Championship, the duo were having a fine time of it. And that’s where we’ll
begin: An American and two Englishmen sitting in a stationary truck placed
smack in the middle of the main thoroughfare of the Anaheim SX pit area.
[Ed. note: It was announced yesterday by KTM USA that Tommy Searle
just signed a contract with them to compete in America in 2009-2010.]
read the interviews on racerxill.com - pic from motomagazine.co.uk