In my opinion, Bill Ballance still has alot more seasons left on the podium as well as Borich & Smiley. Billy has the confidence that he KNOWS he can win (as well as Borich & Smiley)... but that is hard to come by. It's alot easier to go out there & race when you have that kind of confidence. I don't think we'll be seeing Billy slow down any time soon... the competition will keep getting stiffer though as some racers will get up to his speed & challenge him for the title as Chris & Smiley both do every race.
As far as Hawk, he probably would have kept on winning titles in the ATV series, but he chose (as well as a little push from Yamaha who put him on salary) to give up the ATV racing & do strictly bikes & has never looked back. When Hawk quit is when we really began to see Billy shine.
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