Trey Canard is one of the nicest guys you could meet but beneath the genuine happiness for life and his love of dirtbikes that saw the Honda rider have a brilliant career that saw him become a 250 Supercross and outdoor champ as well as a MXoN winner plus 450 race wins indoors and out. Canard admits the loss of his father at a young age before he turned pro left him feeling isolated and missing that guidance that he sees the Lawrence brothers have with their dad Darren.
In an amazingly raw and searingly honest assessment of his career, Trey told us: “I wish I could have become a 450 champion, you know? That certainly was one thing that I wanted badly. But also, I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma full of Cowboys, oil field workers and football players, you know, so to think about where I came from and you know, I try not to make a big deal of the adversity of my life, but it was is quite difficult.
“Losing my father, not just his presence, but you know, it’s especially…I am with the Lawrence’s and I see the value of Darren. I felt a little bit isolated in that way and I wore the weight of the world on my shoulders.
“No-one ever really put pressure on me, but I just had an enormous weight from myself and so in ways, yes, I wish I could have done more but in other ways I’m just I’m so grateful for what I got to do and also, you know what? It’s led me to you today because I feel like I’m having a great part of my career right now past racing.”
And Trey admitted he felt like the bread winner for the family: “For sure I mean my younger brother is 10 years younger. I was two at the time and my older brother was nearly college age. So he went to college. So it was it was very much, I Shouldn’t say a strange family dynamic, but I definitely felt the weight of that but that’s not complaining. It’s just that’s the the facts of I think what made me ride so much with my heart rather than my head sometimes.
“I think the best riders in the world. They can access that heart and that determination but they can also ask their their brains you know, because I was trying so hard to push and be all the things that I didn’t really have access to my brain sometimes.”
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