Monday Morning Espresso | Direct Motocross Canada


By Billy Rainford

Good morning from Albuquerque, New Mexico. A metropolis of 564,559 folks. The Duke Metropolis or Burque is one among just some giant cities I’ll be passing by means of on my journey residence from California. I already went by means of Phoenix and subsequent I’ll go away New Mexico and head by means of Amarillo, Texas, Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma, up by means of St Louis, Missouri, Indianapolis, Indiana, Toledo, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and eventually residence into Ontario.

It’s an extended haul and the powerful half about going this fashion is that I’ll lose one other couple hours to time adjustments and the climate will proceed to get colder and colder. However let me inform you this…I’m able to be residence.

I’d hate to jinx issues at a time like this, however the #DMXVan has been chugging alongside properly by means of one other one among these lengthy journeys. I feel Dodge is could actually be on to one thing with these “small vans.”

I’m unsure what I’ll be in subsequent season, however I feel this must be the final time I drive this van throughout the continent, simply to be protected. The query is, do I’m going larger, smaller, or keep the identical sooner or later?

It’s been an amazing month chasing our Canadians round California to the races and observe tracks.

#83 Cole Thompson.

#83 Cole Thompson can be off till he heads again for the make-up race in Oakland. It seems like we’ll see him on the gate for a spherical or two of the 450 class within the east on his 250, however we’ll have to attend and get his ultimate schedule. We’ll do an interview, hopefully at present, as we each make our methods residence.

Cole sits thirteenth in t 250 West factors after 3 rounds of racing.

#500 Julien Benek.

#500 Julien Benek will take a while to let his shoulder heal from his early-season crash and be again in motion for Oakland, too. He plans to race some 450 rounds within the east on a 450, so we’ll must maintain a watch out for that.

Sadly, they missed the beginning of the 250 LCQ at Anaheim 2.

#518 Parker Eales.

#518 Parker Eales is probably going again to work in BC this morning. Hopefully, we see him once more when the collection hits Seattle. What an amazing expertise that was for him to have the ability to come all the way down to California for over a month and race the West rounds and even an AMA Arenacross thrown in there. It was enjoyable hanging out with Kyle Springman and Kevin Urqhart, too.

There have been numerous stars hanging round at A2. Try just a few notables:

Josiah Natzke confirmed up in Canada final summer season and received his first 4 250 motos. Supercross is new to him however he’ll be on the road subsequent week in Houston when the 250 East begins.
Dylan Rempel is the latest member of the Partzilla PRMX workforce. He was hanging out together with his new teammates and maybe getting a pleasant look into his future.
Cal Nowicki and gang.
Dean Foster. Hey, Rylan Foster, my Fosterhome Farms maple syrup ranges are critically low!
Buckethead doing the nationwide anthem was rad, however I’m positively just a little creeped out by him. Bear in mind when Slash did it?
Marcus Ericsson used to race F1 and received the 2022 Indy 500! He’s on the proper.
Dean Thompson and crew.

I’ve to inform a brief story about this picture. As I used to be organising, Broc Glover came to visit and talked about the way it was a bunch of “Canucks, eh!” On the time, I had no concept that Dean and gang have been there with Dunlop.

I chatted with Broc for a minute about how Jett Lawerence‘s pink Alpinestars gear jogged my memory of his stunning pink gear again within the 80’s.

Again after I was just a little child, Broc was one among my racing heroes. My dad additionally all the time revered Broc’s no-nonsense racing. He simply all the time appeared to indicate up and do nicely.

So, after chatting for a pair minutes, I made a decision I ought to formally introduce myself. I put my hand out to take action and Broc instantly mentioned he knew who I used to be and reads DMX stuff.

My dad handed away a pair years in the past and I actually want I might inform him that story. Thanks, Broc.

There’s a lot to speak about from this previous weekend, however I’m stressing out about not placing the miles behind me. Possibly what I’ll do is drive for just a few hours after which pull over someplace, so an interview or 2 and submit some extra stuff up right here on the location.

Listed here are the prolonged highlights from A2:

SX Futures podium: Daxton Bennick, Casey Cochran, Talon Hawkins.
#43 Levi Kitchen received A2!
A2 450 podium: Chase Sexton, Jason Anderson, Ken Roczen.

AMA Endurocross Spherical 1

King of the Motos

Johnson Valley, California

Place Rider# AMA# Rider Title Sponsors Model Class Chk 1 Chk 2 Chk 3 Chk 4 Chk 5 Chk 6 Chk 7 Chk 8 Chk 9
1 1 2158898 TRYSTAN HART Redbull Ktm Fmf KTM Professional 0:11:08 (1) 0:23:25 (1) 0:31:04 (1) 0:48:04 (1) 1:01:15 (1) 1:14:33 (1) 1:18:24 (1) 1:30:06 (1) 1:44:27 (1)
2 2 654257 CODY WEBB Factory1 Sherco, Pink Bull, Arai, Scott, CTi, Pivot SHR Professional 0:11:14 (2) 0:24:25 (2) 0:31:11 (2) 0:48:20 (2) 1:02:32 (2) 1:16:27 (2) 1:23:24 (2) 1:31:43 (2) 1:53:59 (2)
3 513 2096958 RYDER LEBLOND DRT Racing, Husqvarna HSQ Professional 0:12:00 (3) 0:25:26 (3) 0:32:38 (3) 0:53:54 (3) 1:07:50 (3) 1:21:59 (3) 1:36:19 (3) 1:39:39 (3) 1:59:07 (3)
4 39 3704346 WILL RIORDAN   KTM Professional 0:13:00 (4) 0:28:47 (4) 0:36:17 (5) 0:57:01 (4) 1:13:01 (4) 1:27:29 (4) 1:36:23 (4) 1:44:19 (4) 2:03:08 (4)
5 10 729697 COLTON HAAKER Rockstar power husqvarna manufacturing facility HSQ Professional 0:19:00 (25) 0:30:07 (7) 0:37:51 (7) 0:59:08 (5) 1:14:17 (5) 1:29:44 (6) 1:36:24 (5) 1:45:27 (5) 2:04:28 (5)
6 12 284792 COOPER ABBOTT FactoryONE Sherco SHR Professional 0:14:01 (6) 0:28:52 (5) 0:36:14 (4) 0:59:18 (6) 1:14:27 (6) 1:29:20 (5) 1:36:25 (6) 1:45:30 (6) 2:08:09 (6)
7 99 3389824 BRANDEN PETRIE Sherco Enduro Racing Simply 1 SHR Professional 0:14:37 (8) 0:30:29 (9) 0:37:58 (9) 1:01:32 (7) 1:18:56 (7) 1:35:44 (7) 1:43:17 (7) 1:53:23 (7) 2:15:26 (7)
8 55 3090498 JAMES FLYNN AEO DDC SXS IRC Fastway RKTec MotoSeat XCGear GG Professional 0:15:22 (11) 0:31:35 (10) 0:40:21 (10) 1:06:16 (10) 1:24:16 (10) 1:40:05 (9) 1:47:24 (9) 1:56:36 (9) 2:20:28 (8)
9 492 894234 DUSTIN MCCARTHY Chocolate Mountain Ranch KTM Professional 0:13:55 (5) 0:29:47 (6) 0:37:54 (8) 1:01:34 (8) 1:20:09 (8) 1:36:45 (8) 1:45:30 (8) 1:55:25 (8) 2:24:03 (9)
10 118 279269 CORY GRAFFUNDER SRT, TBT, Bell, SXS, Seat Ideas, Sidi, Rekluse KTM Professional 0:14:30 (7) 0:30:17 (8) 0:37:46 (6) 1:04:45 (9) 1:22:24 (9) 1:40:45 (10) 1:49:02 (10) 1:59:12 (10) 2:31:16 (10)
Place Rider# AMA# Rider Title Sponsors Model Chk 1 Chk 2 Chk 3 Chk 4 Chk 5 Chk 6 Chk 7 Chk 8
1 64L 2157004 KYLEE SWEETEN   GG 0:46:32 (1) 1:15:37 (1) 1:32:22 (1) 2:44:22 (1) 3:33:16 (1) 4:13:08 (1) 4:31:06 (1) 4:50:16 (1)
2 676L 3068818 HALLIE MARKS Sherco USA, Inside Enduro, Hammer Diet SHR 0:53:54 (2) 1:28:33 (2) 1:43:59 (2) 3:19:25 (2) 3:54:58 (2) 4:40:47 (2) 5:06:09 (2) 5:24:25 (2)
3 6L 3274591 BAILEY LERWILL SXS,DIRTastic,Evo ID,SelkirkGphcs,Dave Smith HSQ 0:58:03 (3) 1:35:52 (3) 1:54:21 (3) 3:24:33 (3) 4:11:30 (3) 4:55:34 (3) 5:20:57 (3) 5:41:59 (3)
4 33L 3773610 MESA LANGE Klim, Skratch Labs, Westerner Rv Park HSQ 1:42:22 (4) 2:36:11 (4) 3:01:12 (4)  

I nonetheless have to interview Tyler Gibbs, too! Man, this gig requires greater than the efforts of only one human…lol

Have an amazing week, everybody. Hopefully, subsequent time you hear from me I’ll be in OK Metropolis, or someplace nearer to residence!

Thanks #604 Max Miller. See you on the races…