Motocross News
Long time Motoworld rider and now Factory Yamaha rider Dustin Nelson
took round three of the Yamaha/ITP quadcross series last weekend in
Buckey, AZ. Dustin started the weekend off with a win in his heat race
which gave him high hopes when he took to the line for the main event.
When the gate dropped in the main event Nelson’s race started sideways
as he got cross rutted out of the gate which put him into 9th place
rounding the first turn.
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Branden Jesseman clinched the 2003 AMA 125 East Region Supercross title
at the Pontiac Silverdome and then went into an injury-riddled funk
that’s lasted almost four years. Along the way he’s bounced around to
different teams, built an entire filing cabinet of X-rays, and got
married and divorced. He almost disappeared. But on Saturday night, he
looked like the Jesseman of old (at least once he got back to the gate
for the restart after that harrowing crash). Number 121 put in 15
strong laps on the PPG/MotoworldRacing.com Yamaha to win his first race
since the spring of 2003, and the first Lites/125 SX for the blue brand
since, what, Josh Hansen at Indy ’04?
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Motoworldracing.com/PPG Yamaha isn’t necessarily considered a privateer
team, but it’s definitely not on the level of some of the other 250F
squads. That being said, we decided to talk to Iowa-native Justin
Brayton, who rides the #114 Motoworldracing.com Yamaha. Brayton is
coming off his best finish yet at the Rockstar Energy Drink U.S. Open,
where he finished fourth overall with 3-7 scores.
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Today it was announced that David Vuillemin will ride a
Yamaha YZ450F for Team MotoworldRacing.com in the 12-race AMA National Motocross
Championship. Through a deal orchestrated by Motoworld of El Cajon owner Brian
Juhnke, No Fear Motocross principal Jeff Surwall and Yamaha, Vuillemin, a
three-time 250cc National event winner, will ride heavily modified YZ450F
production bikes.
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It's been a while since we've seen any of the Western Region 250F riders on the track, and we're all really anticipating the Dallas Supercross this Saturday night. Looking back, one privateer racer who finished the first part of the Western series well was arenacrosser-turned-supecrosser Justin Brayton, who races for the Motoworldracing.com Yamaha team.
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