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Casey Currie | UNLEASHED

Jan 092023

Tretiu sezónu UNLEASHED podcastu odpálime poriadnym bangerom! Monster Energy s hrdosťou víta legendu Off-Road Racingu a držiteľa zlatej medaily z X Games Caseyho Currieho z Anaheim Hills v Kalifornii.

„Dakar je najťažší terénny závod na svete. Pohybuje sa od 8 do 14 dní, v závislosti od ročníka. Každý deň sa počíta, pretekáte 250 míľ denne. Takže ak máte deň predtým zlý deň, začínate na konci a musíte bojovať, aby ste sa zase posunuli dopredu,“ povedal Currie v UNLEASHED. „Dôvod, prečo je to také ťažké, je ten, že ste totálne psychicky vyčerpaní."

Casey Currie sa narodil do závodnej rodiny s viac ako 50 ročnou tradíciou v motoršporte. A je to vidieť. V piatich rokoch už mladý Casey pretekal na motocykloch a keď mal 16, šoféroval svoj prvý závodný truck. Odvtedy si rodený Kalifornčan vybudoval rôznorodú kariéru a získal tituly na závodných motocykloch, trucoch a bugginách, najčastejšie v púštnom teréne, kde sa mu darí najlepšie. V roku 2019 vyhral zlato na úvodnom Jeep X Challenge na Winter X Games vo svojom vôbec prvom vystúpení na X-Games. O rok neskôr sa Currie stal prvým americkým jazdcom v histórii, ktorý vyhral ikonickú Rallye Dakar a získal titul triedy UTV. V rozhovore pre UNLEASHED Currie zdieľa osobné míľniky svojej jedinečnej kariéry.

Born and raised in California, Currie grew up in a family business with over 60 years of building high performance rear ends for off-road and NASCAR style race vehicles. As a result, racing was a natural part of his upbringing: “Our whole family, my uncle, and my dad and my granddad, we all rode dirt bikes. They decided to quit racing at one point to work for the family business. And 20 years later when I came around, I started racing and fell in love with it,” said Currie on UNLEASHED.

 

Ultimately, he found his lane racing off-road trucks, where he built a milestone-heavy career: “The blessing for me was that the opportunity to race a truck came at the same time when I was racing motorcycles. So it wasn’t like I quit, and completely went away from racing,” said Currie, who was given an opportunity to try his hand at racing trucks by his sponsor in 2006 – and never looked back. “I’ve never raced a motorcycle ever since!”

 

In 2010, Currie had a breakout season, securing multiple wins and podium finishes including a short course championship, then finishing the year by winning the Baja 500 Trophy Truck Class in a straight-axle Jeep. In 2017, he upped the ante by winning the Baja 1000 in the Ultra 4 Class in his Trophy Jeep. “It’s a lot of time and effort to go down there and try to win that race. You spend all year trying to win that 1000-mile race. It’s one hundred percent for the love of the sport.”

 

He also excels on snow: In 2019, Currie won the gold medal in the inaugural Jeep X Challenge at Winter X Games. Then in 2020, Currie made history as the first American to win Dakar, taking home the UTV Class title: “That was the worst win ever because I won at the beginning of January. Then Covid locked down everything in March, and I was supposed to travel across the United States and do all these cool talk shows and morning news. And then… there was nothing!”

 

Asked about his most memorable win, Currie said: “For me it’s the Dakar win! To win at an event that Americans have tried to win for 47 years, it’s going to be hard to beat that in anything I do.”

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