SAN DIEGO, SUPERCROSS

San Diego, Ca – February 8, 2020

This week team owner, Ted Parks, made a bet with 450SX team rider Jimmy Weeks – When Jimmy makes a Main Event, Ted will dye his beard blue. Jimmy countered by saying if he gets top 15 in a Main Event, Ted has to dye his beard half blue/half red. We look forward to seeing that happen sooner than later – for both Jimmy and Ted.

450SX

Dylan Merriam celebrated a birthday this week and is looking forward to celebrating a new year of life with his return to racing in Atlanta next weekend. Austin Politelli and Jimmy Weeks qualified 27^th and 28^th respectively. Weeks was charging hard in the LCQ running in 5^th place when a rider crashed in front of him causing him to go down as well; he was able to work back up to an 11^th place finish. Politelli was looking smooth in his heat race, but struggled quite a bit in the LCQ; he ended up with a DNF (did not finish) for the night.

250SX

Corbin Hayes unfortunately missed round 6 due to personal reasons, we are hoping he’ll be able to make it back to the Seattle round in a few weeks. Blaine Silveira was mid pack in heat one when he clipped a tough block with 1 minute and a lap to go. He DNF’d the race and was forced into the LCQ. The LCQ had similar results; rounding a corner on the inside he clipped a tough block that severely slowed him down. Blaine was frustrated with his results, but is looking forward to a few weeks off as the 250SX series heads to the East Coast. Transport rider, Taiki Koga crashed during qualifying and tore open his hip; the wound was so deep he ended up having to go to the local hospital. He didn’t fracture anything and hopes to be recovered in time for Seattle.