Have you ever wondered what people in the Canadian motocross industry think about Christmas? Well, wonder no more as over the next few weeks we’re going to reach to some pro riders and industry people to ask them some key festive questions. After speaking to Ryan Lockhart and Brett Metcalfe last week, we then switched gears and tracked down Brett Lee and Andrew McEwan. Today we catch up with our 2014 MX1 Champion and new Daddy, Colton Facciotti, to get his thoughts on the holiday season.
Prince George, BC rider Hayden Wolff definitely has a lot of speed and talent for a kid that’s just 14-years-old. In fact, his results in the last few years have cost Kawasaki a lot of money as he’s now won the Team Green Rider of the Year twice. The awesome prize for winning this Team Green Award is a free bike of your choice from Kawasaki. For this week’s Yamaha Motor Canada Amateur Profile we caught up with Hayden Wolff as he and his family were getting ready for Christmas.
Washington State’s Ross Johnson is one of those great riders flying under the radar. With a family and job, he’s not able to make it to every Monster Energy Supercross or Lucas Oil Pro Motocross, but he pokes his head in here and there and pulls out some good results. Go ahead and look him up in the Vault; he’s right under a guy named Rick Johnson. (Whatever happened to that dude?) Johnson, riding for the Cycle North team, raced the Future West Canadian Arenacross series and came away with the Pro Open title this past weekend after the last round. I caught up to him after the race to get his thoughts on everything.
After completing its 25th season of partnership in 2014 by winning three of the last four races of the Verizon IndyCar Series season, Target Chip Ganassi Racing (TCGR) announced today its driver for the 2015 campaign. Three-time Verizon IndyCar Series Champion and 2008 Indianapolis 500 Winner Scott Dixon returns to TCGR in the No. 9 Target Chevrolet for his 14th season with the team – the longest tenure for a driver in the organization’s history.
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Troy it was good seeing you at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, do you always attend the show?
I try to make sure I come every other year, but this year we also were on our way to visit KTM. These guys in Italy really do it right at the show and there’s a ton of new stuff to see that just seems to come out of the woodwork. This is the one show where you can still see so many small guys building some really cool bikes and CNC’d parts.
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No one can hide on social media nowadays, the pictures can easily tell the tale. Whilst creeping all things two wheeled one day I quickly discovered that Kyle Redmond and Cory Graffunder were both up to something epic. After seeing photos of them training together in wasteland boulder fields in California I knew some form of a plan was in motion. After a little bit of research it was unveiled that the two extreme enduro young guns would be competing down in Ecuador at the Enduro Ukupacha.