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JAKE WEIMER
450 SX / AZ
IMAGE / MPG WORDS / MATTINGLY DESIGN / WILSON
>> Supercross is an individualistic endeavor at the end of the day.
Yes, a team of ultra-supporting cast must be there to nurture, mold, and aid a rider in all aspects, and are of the utmost importance; but at the end of the day, it takes one man to saddle up and make that steel-horse gallop on the radical landscape.
There are few individuals in this world that truly have the guts to ante up, push the chips to the middle of the table, look at the dealer and utter the words “all in”. Weimer is one of the chosen select.
He’s made his way through the ranks on a particular mindset of leaving his best effort on the track, and the round of Phoenix would offer no different.
A man of his word, all day he embodied the spirit of a raging warrior, pushing the envelope on each particular inch of track he could find.
However, the University of Phoenix track wasn’t quite settling with that furious pace, as it was a course that was very fast in one sense, yet had the force of mel- lowing a rider to their reserved pace because of lack of traction.
This was all too apparent throughout the course of the main event, the position he once had with the front-runners of the class, was completely washed away as the laps dwindled toward the white flag. The footprint of his 450 just couldn’t grip mother earth, and honestly had many in his crew thinking he should’ve changed to a wider grip tire to allow for optimum clawing of the Phoenix clay.
The timer, dropping into the low minutes, saw him fading into obliteration, his position now 21st, not showing anywhere near what he had presented earlier in the main event. He would finish here, disgusted, but ready to rebound in the next few weeks.
104 GRITMOTO • JANUARY 29, 2017