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Ben Townley interview - Motocross e-magazine
Interview Wednesday 18th January 2011 By Geoff Meyer
Hot and cold ... these are words that could describe the motocross career of New Zealand’s Ben Townley. He’s a man of extremes. When he’s hot, he’s very, very hot, scorching hot in fact, but when he’s cold, it freezes the blood. On a good day, few catch match the young man from Taupo, the geothermal tourism hot-spot at the centre of New Zealand’s North Island.
He’s raced against, and beaten, some of the biggest and best names in the sport ... Stefan Everts, Tony Cairoli, Ryan Dungey, Ryan Villopoto ... but often, just a little bit too often, he’s been unable to harness and release that blinding speed.
He’s been sidelined with injury so many times in the past few years. But perhaps that’s testament to the man too ... if you don’t crash now and again, you’re simply not trying hard enough.
If that old saying is true, then nobody could argue that Ben Townley tries very hard indeed.
Townley’s rollercoaster career continued its ups and downs in November with another unexpected and sudden stomach-lurching dip for the man from the Bay of Plenty region. Yes, if we rewind to mid November and the 25-year-old former world MX2 world champion and 2007 American East Coast Lites Supercross Champion appeared to have recovered from 18 months of nagging shoulder injury, his racing career seemingly back in order.
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