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He's 40 now, so still top of his game, but he has more of his best years behind him than in front. He needs to work out how he can continue to generate sponsor interest and stories for his corporate motivation talks so he can prolong his career. TCR has to be a better source of stories than RAAM.
He has had challengers in RAAM and he hasn't won every time he has entered, so not totally dominant. But must be more interesting for sponsors to have something other than 5th RAAM win 6th win, xth win, etc.
frank9755-
Sorry but I think winning the most RAAMs and holding the race record qualifies as totally dominant. There is literally no reason for him to race more RAAM unless it still interests him. No one is going to race more RAAM just because someone is paying them to unless they also still enjoy it or have some kind of "I always wanted to win 10 of them" goal.
hippy
Yeah, that makes sense. I'd also imagine he's probably run out of challenges in that world, to be honest. He doesn't have any competition. Here though, he was given a run for his money.
Didn't I post somewhere that I wonder how long before Strasser is riding off-road? :)