Preston Williams: From factory motocross champion to elite downhill privateer
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Preston Williams is a former British motocross champion turned downhill racer. On this episode Preston talks about his illustrious but strict motocross career and why he made the switch to racing downhill. Preston talks about winning his first ever National race, almost beating Jackson Goldstone and breaks down his first couple of years in the elite category.
Preston is currently living the full privateer life and we hope the companionship will be rooting for him in 2024!
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want to throw you under the bus here, but if you had to choose now, this is a pivotal point in your career at this moment. |
| 0:07.2 | You can be a professional motorcross rider. |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:09.4 | Or you can be a professional down-haul rider. |
| 0:11.0 | Where do you go? |
| 0:19.7 | Okay, welcome to the ride companion. |
| 0:22.6 | We have got bright UK World Cup downhill talent, |
| 0:26.0 | a privateer on the cusp of breaking the top 30 in the world from the back of his van. |
| 0:31.9 | Downhill champ, downhill national champ, 20 years of age, |
| 0:36.4 | TikTok influencer, two-time MX National Champ, |
| 0:39.7 | and a lifetime behind bars. Welcome Preston Williams. |
| 0:44.9 | Oh, that was a good one. Wasn't that a good one? That wasn't bad. |
| 0:48.5 | Really good. Thank you for the kind words. That was amazing. |
| 0:50.9 | That's all right. We could even do more. I like the fact as well that this is in Preston's lunch break. Yeah. This is how privateer this story is. And it's 5.30. Yeah. Can you give a run down? What's happened, Davey? And what of today? Right. Just right now for Preston turning up. Where has he just been and what, what's he? Well, I mean, he's probably better to explain. But I'll try. I just thought. I don't want to speak for you, turning up. Where has he just been and what's he? Well, I mean, he's probably better to explain. |
| 1:12.6 | But I'll try. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't want to speak for you, Preston, but I'll give it a shot. Yeah. Okay, so we've just had one guest leave. This episode may have, may or not already have been out, Joel, will it, Joel Anderson. Yeah. Keep getting him mixed up. Yeah. Then we've gone outside. We've said goodbye to Joel and then boom, our next guest has rolled up. After a full day of work. So he's done a full day of work. Yeah. Doing cleaning coaches, right? He's come back. He's come in. We've gone upstairs for a cup of tea in the green room. Yeah. And then he's like, oh, I've got to go back to work after this. To which me and you |
| 1:44.9 | were like, what do you mean? And he's got his uniform one, dude. It's like the most privateer, privateer I've ever seen. Yeah, well, I just had to come straight here from work, didn't I? No, I know. It's actually real as well. Yeah. It's good. And then straight into work. Is this a normal thing doing like two, is it two shifts? |
| 2:01.6 | Are we talking one day? |
| 2:02.8 | Not really. |
| 2:03.5 | It's just because since, it's good I like it and then straight into work is this a normal thing doing like two is it two |
| 2:01.2 | shifts or are we talking yeah not really it's just because um since I'm getting my license soon |
| 2:06.4 | yeah doing my test soon I just want to get some experience going around doing some actual driving |
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