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Supermini 1 (12-15)
KILPATRICK
KAEDEN AMERINE
Looking through the list of names, for fel- low riders in your class, can be daunting. Accumulations of titles, flashes of raw speed, on the national scale, the mere thought of your competition can put a rider into their shell. You must be resilient and courageous to ascend to the top of your field, and with this much domina- tion under one starting grid, someone would go home ecstatic, while others, empty handed. As all heads bowed in unison, lazering their vision toward the gate, it would fall, and the field would
blitz into turn one. Bar-banging like they were racing in a phone booth, there was absolutely no room for error, as any costly move could result in either a crash, or serious detrimental positioning. Hitting the sands of the first turn, roost resembled the storms of the Sahara, with riders pulling tearoffs viciously. Evan Ferry, a Largo, Florida native, would battle it out with the best in the division for the major- ity of heat number one. With one of the best professionals ever in his corner, the young man didn’t let any outside pressure into his train of thought, and would ride solid, taking the heat race win. The next qualifier saw Jett Reynolds take the field by storm. With years of championship runs, he’d done this sequence hundreds of times, and wasn’t phased in the slight- est, by any adversity he faced. Reynolds would go on to take the second division win. Kaeden Amerine looked to solidify himself as one of the best in the division, pulling out to a hefty gap on lap one of the main event. Railing each bowl turn near the brink of the top, his speed allowed him to carve each corner with some of the fastest speed seen all week. Each lap, he would hold on just a tad longer, relaying the signals of what he practiced, back in to his mind once again. Stay calm under pressure, don’t get rattled, and breathe, were messages being indicated on his
pit board for the majority of the moto. He was doing it, looking at the faces of some of the top competitors in the world, and staring them straight in the eye. After all was said and done, he fended off guys that were publicized and well-known by all in the industry. He proved to both he and everyone else that he was a contender, and the amount of speed he carried wasn’t anything to joke about.
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