Here is an excerpt from the interview that can be found in the latest issue of OTOR by clicking here…check out Ray Archer’s portrait photography as well….

Pourcel is great for motocross. We are not only talking about an immense talent but an individual character unlike any other in the paddock. On the bike Pourcel does things his own way. If the motorcycle is right (and it seems that it must be a Kawasaki, having ridden ‘green’ all his career apart from an aborted and controversial attempt to begin the 2011 AMA Nationals with Motoconcepts Yamaha) then the guy can literally fly. He takes lines nobody else dares and makes them work. He is another in the short line of winners at the highest level to make a physical, complicated and technical sport look like a bicycle ride through a local park.

When the engine has stopped Pourcel still walks his own path.

As if to embellish the fact he sports a tattoo the length of his torso stating: ‘I am whatever I want to be.’

Do you care what people think about you?

Um. I like the people who hate me, and I like the people that like me. So…

What about the view that you are anti-establishment, that you don’t play corporate game. Do you think this is bullshit or do you not care?

What do you mean?

Like the chest protector that covers up the sponsors and not wearing team gear around at the races…

I think I do my job and it is good to be whoever you are. People can learn from you a little bit more if you are true and not fake. I think it is way better for people to see that.

Can you afford to stop racing? Have you done enough?

Right now I can say ‘yeah’ I could step away. Since my accident I don’t miss riding. When I do ride I enjoy it but I could not ride for a year and it is fine for me.