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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.
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Sure, there's no doubt he's been the top guy for a long time.
Before I read his book I thought he was more dominant than I did afterwards, after I'd read about the things that had gone wrong, the races he didn't win, the competitors that ran him close when he was going well, etc. However some of that is probably positioning so that the sponsors don't think it is a piece of piss for him!
I think his decision process is that he's got to race something because that's his job, and he may as well race the biggest thing there is. I think he's just decided that TCR is now bigger than RAAM and will be even more so in the future. If RAAM was getting 100 entries and there were some great contests at the front he might have stuck with it.
frank9755
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.