My First Supercross- Atlanta 2008!

Star Motocross — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:47:00 +0000

The start to my SX career I rocked up to Atlanta not really knowing what to expect, but I went there knowing I had done a lot of training and testing with the team and everything was awesome; the bike was good, my speed was good, my mind was just 100% focused on the race.

At 11:15am I went out to my first track walk, that’s when the nerves set in, luckily I had Chad Reed walking with me and constantly telling me not to worry Ill do fine so I finished the track walk and went back to the truck, got my gear on and was ready to go my first practice, I got real tight and didn’t do so well. Then I went out for my second practice and my times were a little
better I was sitting in the top 8 which the team was happy with. After the practice I had a big brake till I raced so a lot of time to think about the race. We had a lot of team meetings and they just tried giving me there best advice which really helped.

The first race didn’t really get a good start but came through the first turn in about 7th and just worked my way up to 3rd and had a couple of battles to do so got to the last lap when I got the word from my mechanic to be smart and just make it through to the main which I did by coming 4th.

Final time was really excited and nerves at the same time got a good gate pick and it was time to get the job done. I didn’t get a good start but pushed my way up in to about 8th buy lap 1 I knew the track was going to play a big part in were you finished all I wanted to do is stay on two wheels which I did. I got faster and faster and I just kept passing people, before I new it I was in 4th chasing the leaders with 2 laps to go I found myself in 2nd which I was really excited about then the last lap flag came out. I was half way around the track when I caught up to some lappers, I made a rookie mistake and one rider got back buy me with only two corners two go leaving me in 3rd and I some how got tangled up with the same lap rider and I got past again which then I was in 4th so I ended up 4th.

I just want to say I am really happy with the way the weekend went and I would love to thank Yamaha for getting me over here and the team for all there support and my family which I miss very much and the Rodgers family for all their help couldn’t do it them.

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My First Supercross- Atlanta 2008!