VOL. 55 ISSUE 48 DECEMBER 4, 2017 P63
Tell us about the moto-
cross racing. You raced a
Yamaha this year?
Yeah. One of my best friends,
Joey Lancaster, started that
125cc Dream Race up in Wash-
ougal a few years past. Last year
it caught on into nationals with the
125 Dream Race Triple Crown. It
started last year, so I did Hang-
I like to do as much as I can.
I really love my motocross com-
munity back home. That's just
what I grew up doing, so I've been
close with everybody for a long
time. That's the one thing I do that
there's no pressure. It's just purely
for fun for me, even though I do
set goals and I get fired up about
it. I still ride moto quite a bit.
that was kind of the big push, be-
cause I'm a local rider and Super
Hooligans is popular. I worked
with them a little bit in the last
year, and Joe Kopp was riding for
them last year on the Triumph.
That's interesting, con-
sidering you beat him to the
title last year.
The first time I ever rode flat
track was the Joe Kopp flat track
school [laughs]. That's the crazi-
est part. Riding for that team is
awesome. There was no, "Hey,
you have to win the championship,
or you have to do this." They were
just like, "Go do the best you can.
Represent us well." It's been super
low-key. The bike builder and me-
chanic, Mike Stegmann, he was
the guy doing all the race bikes
for Bobby Fong in MotoAmerica.
He's like, "This has been the easi-
est bike program I've ever done!"
I've always wanted to ride for that
team. I talked with them back
when they were road racing about
maybe being a 600 rider. This year
it all came together well.
town and Washougal. Then this
year I raced just Washougal.
We have a 2004 Honda CR125
we've had forever, so I dug that
out of storage. I hadn't raced it
since Hangtown. I rode a Husqvar-
na last year in the Washougal
race. There was something like 70
entries. I had to qualify on Friday
and I ended up finishing 22nd in
the main on Saturday, which for
me was good, as I hadn't been re-
ally riding moto this summer.
Do you have a track at
home?
I live on five acres with my
parents still. I've been trying to
get out of there for a while, just
been looking for a big shop to live
in the area. That's on the list of
things to do. But the neighbors
used to have a pumpkin patch
there and they're not doing it any-
more. They asked me if I wanted
to rent it and build a track on it. I
was like, "Heck yeah!"
(Left) On the way
to another Super
Hooligans title,
and a broken
arm at Huntington
Beach's series finale.
(Right) Third place
for DiBrino at the
2018 Road America
Stock 1000 event
behind winner Shane
Richardson and
Andrew Lee.
