What caused that change during the off season?
Last year, I just don’t feel like I put in the effort I should have. We didn’t test as much as we should have and I didn’t ride as much as I should have. I was sitting around in the off-season and just felt like I wanted one more shot at winning it again. As a racer, you always feel like you can go out and do it. We did some work at the beginning of this season and things were going really well. We had some great times on the pavement, which is where we were falling behind last year. In San Diego, I just got arm pump and then after that the skin cancer thing was just the last straw for me. It’s time to get all this stuff taken care of. Ward is a two-time AMA Supermoto champion photo: Steve Cox You are still going to ride some rounds this year, correct? Yeah, I’m going to try to ride Mammoth and the X Games this summer. Of course, it all depends on my health, but I want to do those and then maybe a couple more fun ones later in the season. My son Brandon is also going to do some racing
