The Soil Engineer - Brad Smith

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In today’s episode, we sit down with Brad Smith. Brad has been at MTF for 15 out of the 20 years that we've been in business. Not only does Brad build and maintain all of the tracks at MTF, he also raced professionally and regularly competes at National Races such as Loretta Lynns and Thor's Mini O's. Brad has lots of wisdom to share about building tracks, riding, and just the sport in general. If you'd like to follow Brad on instagram, here is his instagram handle - @ibradsmith.

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Time Stamps:

1:25 - WSX and Red Bud

3:40 - WSX vs SMX = LIV golf vs. PGA?

7:54 - How did you find your way to MTF?

9:28 - Brad’s journey racing professional

12:00 - How did Brad start building tracks for MTF?

21:50 - The average person doesn’t understand what it takes to maintain a track

24:35 - Brad is the type of guy that pays attention. To everything.

31:29 - Is the speedway style track the future of supercross?

38:53 - How do you go about building a new track?

45:00 - What are the advantages of riding a track that you built?

49:20 - It’s a fine line making a fun track and making a safe track

51:50 - Should I (Jacob) spend some time working the whoops on our track?

54:00 - What does everyone hate my thor helmet?

58:38 - The one time I rode without a chest protector, I broke my ribs and punctured my lung

1:01:17 - Do you eyeball supercross tracks or is there a science to building them?

1:13:23 - Martin Davalos hitting a stupid quad out at Colleen’s SX track

1:15:29 - Kevin Windham and Steph Curry

1:19:50 - If Eli or Dylan liked the last years bike more, why didn’t they choose to ride that this year?

1:22:50 - Why do you keep racing after all these years?

1:27:00 - Sign up for our online training!

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