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2019 FIM SUPERENDURO & AMA ENDUROCROSS CHAMPION COLTON HAAKER P128 Interview know me think.' Because at the end of the day, I can't help a half million people that follow me on social media. I can't control what they do and I can't change their minds. I can't touch them. I can't really enhance their life, truly, no matter what. But I can enhance the life of the people around me. And I can motivate the people that are in my corner, and if I give them 100% effort, like my wife and my family and my friends that are close to me, then I'm doing my part. If I'm focusing my energy on the 490,000 people I don't know, what am I doing? I'm giving less time to people that essentially mean the most to me. I was just like, whatever. You can think whatever you want of me. But I'd rather focus my energy on the people whose lives I can touch and be motivating for and enhance their life. I would rather spend my entirety doing that than try to impress all these other people that are going to fault me for one thing. I might give them entertainment for 364 of 365 days but then I do one thing that I didn't even do! And now I'm the worst person in the world. It's like, alright, I don't know you, you don't know me. It doesn't give you the right to talk to me that way just because you can say it on a message board. I've been doing that lately as much as I can. I have social obli- gations for my Facebook and my Instagram, but I do that and then I try to not be involved as much as I used to. It's just become unim- portant, honestly. I'm paid to race motorcycles so I'm focusing on that, and I'm focusing on my family and friends as much as I can. So there was a lot of back- lash online, but was there any from sponsors, or any profes- sional consequences? It was a very vocal conflict and you're both under the same parent company. What was that like? From a managerial point of view, they didn't feel like I did "I didn't have any teammates at this one so no one can fault me," Haaker quipped of his 2019 AMA EnduroCross Championship.