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DEAN WILSON
450 SX / 8TH
IMAGE / KILPATRICK
WORDS / SCHUBERT DESIGN / MOTOPLAYGROUND
>> Dean Wilson came into Atlanta showing some speed on his Rockstar Energy / Husqvarna Factory racing machine getting eleventh in times qualifying with a fast lap of 53.7 less than two second off the leader. Dean Wilson got off to a fteenth please start coming through the rst corner but would drop down to eighteenth place before the rst lap was nished. After a few corners Dean Wilson was able to put a move on Cole Martinez getting him into seventeenth place and then shortly after was able to put a pass on Matt Bisceglia the LVN 100 / NUT UP / Suzuki rider. Wilson continued to his push forward passing a tangled trio of Weston Peick, Cooper Webb and Broc Tickle and Cedric Soubeyras putting himself into 11th place. Dean would gain on Benny Bloss and make a move getting himself into the top ten with Tyler Bowers just ahead Dean Wilson continued the charge and was able to make a last lap pass earning a ninth in the rst main event. Coming into main event number two Dean would get off
to a better start nding himself in ninth place after the rst turn. Before the rst lap
was completed Wilson found himself back in eleventh place but his speed and ow helped him gain on the CR22 machine of Chad Reed where he would get into the top ten. Wilson eventually start putting pressure on Malcolm Stewart but was met Josh Hill who made a pass on Dean setting him back to eleventh place with fty eight seconds on the clock Josh Hill crashed and gave Dean back the top ten position that he would keep till the checkered ag. In main event number three Dean Wilson was struck again with a bad jump out of the gate nding himself in fteenth place with some ground
to cover if he wanted to keep up his top ten streak. Early in the nal main event of
the night Blake Baggett went down and put Wilson into 14th where he found Cole Martinez and was able to replicate his main event one pass on the AJE Motorsports
/ SKASE’ MX Husqvarna rider but Wilson was done there, he continued on passing both Soubeyras and Malcolm Stewart where he was now knocking on those top ten nishes with Tyler Bowers in his sights Wilson hunted him down to execute a pass earning himself a third top ten nish in a row and an 8th overall for the night.
40 GRITMOTO • MARCH 4, 2018