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LARRY REYES JR.
Larry Reyes Jr. ended the 2017 season with some solid showings of speed at the Thor Winter Olympics, scoring three podium finishes between both supercross and motocross disciplines with a top five to boot. The rider out of Houston, Texas kept relatively quiet throughout the first couple months of the season, but he showed up at the JS7 Spring Championship and logged a top five in the extremely competitive Supermini 2 divi- sion. Throughout the remainder of the spring, the Husqvarna rider found himself at the front of his Loretta Lynn’s Area Qualifiers and gathered some useful momentum moving into JuniorMotoX.
The Seven MX backed rider meant business as he showed up in Oklahoma for the third annual running of the race at Lazy E Arena, contesting both Supermini classes as well as the Jesse
Cup. Reyes Jr. didn’t finish the Supermini 2 race, but he clearly made up for it with the third place results that he achieved in his remaining classes.
AIDEN TIJERO
The beginning of the 2018 racing season served as a proving grounds
for Aiden Tijero. The Orange Brigade backed rider collected a total of seven number one plates leading up to the California Classic, sending a message to his closest rivals in the process. The Californian was one of many riders competing on home soil at the 2018 FMF California Classic at Pala Race- way, attempting to keep up his run of solid form at the final spring event of the season. Tijero contested 125 (12-16) B/C, Schoolboy 1, the FMF 2 Stroke Challenge, and the 250 B Limited division. Throughout the four separate classes, the Orange Brigade backed
hot shot recorded a total of two second place overall finishes, a third, and a first. He only finished off the podium in one third of the twelve motos that he con- tested and his worst finish of ninth place was the only time he placed outside of the top five. Tijero’s speed and consis- tency throughout the weekend was to be admired, including his ability to do
it on both a 125 and 250. At this point, this has been one of the most success- ful years of the Californian’s amateur career and it’s likely that he’ll continue to keep the ball rolling as the season progresses.
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