You’re coming off your first 4X4 Pro Championship. Now that you have a pro championship, how does knowing that you already have a championship under your belt give you confidence going into this season and the seasons ahead?

It feels really good, to be honest with you. It definitely helps confidence, no doubt, but obviously, in the pro ranks, there's obviously a lot of competition, so you’re still on your toes with confidence. You don’t know the 110 percent of the time, but you try your best to make sure it's up there caused a lot of what we do is mental. But obviously, it helps. I’ve known I could have done it for a while, and it just took me a little bit longer than what I was expecting, but I ended up getting it in my “senior year” in the class, I guess four years. I was pretty happy about it, and it definitely helps with confidence, no doubt.

Not only do you have a 4X4 Pro Championship, but you also have a Youth ATV Overall Championship. What was that adjustment like coming off winning a Youth ATV Overall championship to working your way up to now having a pro championship? Do you have any advice for the top youth riders who aspire to be like you and compete in the pro class one day?

It was actually 10 years. I won the Youth Championship in 2014 and my 4X4 Pro Championship in 2024, so it's actually pretty cool. We got both banquet banners hanging up. It's cool to look at cause ten years later, I’m at the pro rank getting the 4x4 one, so it is pretty exciting, especially knowing that I won it ten years ago. It just means a little bit more. I guess it would’ve meant the same if I won it 9 years ago, but I don’t know. For the youth riders, there’s so much advice I could give. I’d say the most important thing is to stay focused. As long as you’re focused on things and getting stuff done, you’ll start winning races as long as you're putting 110% effort in, and it's really what you want to do. Then, go for it. That’s major advice for me, even for me today, I still use that. You have to make sure you're focused on it 110%. You don't just go out there just cause your dad tells you to. You go out there and do it because you want to.

You grabbed your first win of the season at Talladega. Walk us through that race and how everything came together for you.

Wow. Talladega obviously first time going there, very exciting. It was a very awesome venue. I think a lot of people enjoyed it. The track was a little bit tight, but that was expected because it was our first time going there. I was very happy with my performance. I rode the four-wheeler well, and my confidence level is back again. The first couple of rounds, I was under the weather. Normally, Florida is obviously my track, I was born and raised there, I have a bunch of fans there, and I always strive to do my best. I did decent, but I didn't end up getting the win. I ended up having a bike issue. It gave me more confidence that I was leading the whole race, then had the bike issues. Having a good race at Florida helped me in Talladega and going to the new venue. I ended up getting third going into the woods, second going around the first lap and then ended up leading into the next lap. I honestly just put my head down and rode a really good race. I felt like I was on rails, the bike was on rails, and then, on the last lap, there was a big bridge broke, and it was pretty nuts. There were probably about 40 quads sitting there. It was a little scary. My blood pressure spiked a little bit because you could definitely ruin a race in a bottleneck like that. I ended up making it through the bottleneck and, kept charging on to the finish, and ended up winning with good margins.

It felt really good. That was definitely a confidence booster winning because I knew I wasn’t in the race shape I needed to be in for the first couple of rounds. But at round 3, I felt really good at Talladega and was very pleased with how I rode the four-wheeler, so now it's just trying to win some more.

What’s the biggest lesson racing has taught you so far, and how has it shaped the way you approach your career?

Racing has taught me a lot of things, but the most important thing is that we aren’t on this earth for very long and enjoy every moment you can. The racing world is a fun hobby, to be completely honest with you, and it's very enjoyable, so you have to make sure you enjoy it. Don't make it feel like a job. Don’t make it feel like you have to go do it, go do it cause you want to do it. Sorta the same advice I gave the youth riders, as long as you’re doing that, you’ll have fun, and you’ll enjoy it. It’s enjoyable, and that's why we do it. It's not like we are making a bunch of money, at least on the ATV side, so as long as you are enjoying it, keep doing it. Just keep moving forward. You always strive to be better and do the best you can, and when you get to that top level, you are still striving. Even right now, with my pro championship, I still want to be faster on my four-wheeler, I still want my four-wheeler to handle better. And I think that will help me in the long term. When I do get a job, or start my own business, or anything like that, it's going to make me strive and want to do things better and try to perform the best I can in anything I do.

What race do you look forward to most every season and why?

Florida. That is the race I always get the most excited for, and I was nervous this year because I knew I was under the weather, but Florida is my go-to. The fans I have in Florida, the FTR series, my local series that I do, a lot of them show up to that race and support me. It almost feels like I have fans in every corner there. It’s the most exciting one I go to; it’s the only local race I have. I know a lot of other guys, they live up north, and they have a few, but I only have one. The Florida event, not that I enjoy the track that much, but I enjoy the people and the atmosphere. The energy everybody there brings for me, it's just a good time. Another one I will say is one of my favorites, and I

have a lot of fans there as well, is Indiana. The guys up there in Indiana they have fun, and they enjoy it. The fans are what make it really fun. The tracks are all okay, they all work, and they are all fun, but the fans, if you’re getting cheered on, it just makes it all that much more exciting and more fun.

What are your goals for the rest of this season and future seasons?

Goal is, obviously, to run it back. I would love to win another 4X4 Pro Championship. We are in a really good spot right now for the first three rounds, we haven’t had really any big mechanical failures. We are starting with two seconds and a win. Man, I'm just beyond excited for this season and the seasons to come. We are already thinking about the next season. It's kind of crazy, but that's how it works. The racing world is a full-time gig pretty much. We race about year-round, and we have a few months off in the summer and a few months off in the winter, but that's about it, and we are always trying to think of what we have planned ahead of us. But the goal is for the 2025 season is to get another 4x4 Pro Championship under our belt. We like running that number 1 plate; we want to keep it, and that's really been important. I’m definitely striving for another championship, no doubt, and to get a few more wins. Another really big goal for me is to finish every race. It's hard on these 4x4s to do that, so I would love to be able to at least finish every race. I know if I finish every race, I’ll be in contention for a championship.

Enough about racing! When you’re not at the track or training, what do you like to do for fun?

I have a lot of fun in the water, obviously, being in Florida. I do a lot of water things like jet skis and boats. It’s hot almost year-round here, so we don’t have to worry about the heat or worry about it being cold here. We can almost be on the boat every day if we want to. I’m usually on the lake, on the jet skis, a lot on rivers, things like that. I'm not really a big beach guy, being from Florida, but I love the lakes and the rivers. I work a full-time job with my parents at a golf cart shop. That's not what I do for fun, but it's what I do for work. But besides that, train for racing. That’s what I enjoy and love to do, so it's what I plan to do.

Finally, who are the people and sponsors you’d like to thank?

Teixeira Tech, Elite Graphics, Fasst Company, Jay Parts, GBC Tires, Cecco Racing, James and Santo, my mom and dad, my brother, The Yard Stop, HMF Racing, Attack Gear, Jett Boots, Action Off-Road, Alco Cleaners, Tire Spine, DP brakes, Victory Golf Carts, Frazier Auto Sales and the entire Pro Row 784 Racing.