Ryan Clark, "the other RC" got up early with his mechanic Jesse Black to meet with media at Phoenix's press day.
They went old school with Ryan's beater pickup and wooden ramp!
Clark went home and took a break, then came back for the afternoon to talk to press some more.
He said with the new timed qualifying practice, days have changed a little and he has been practicing sprint laps to get better lap times-and better gate picks.
Clark owns Team Solitaire, which is completely funded by industry sponsors like Fly/Dragon/Honda/Western Powersports. His mechanic ened up here after moving to town to attend MMI.
His other rider Jiri Dostal is out this weekend with a broken fib. Bummer, get well fast dude.
Here is what Clark had to say about the Anaheim 1 whoops: "The whoop sections were not built difficult. What made them difficult was the soil there at Anaheim. It gets so slippery and choppy. The dirt here (phoenix) has more sand and when the whoops break down, they get smaller. There in Anaheim they cup and get a steep face on them. When you continue to hit them they get blued grooved out. The lines change so often you have to be open to finding a new line. I kind of got stuck in one line and had some problems in the main."
