P84
Interview
ROAD RACER SEAN DYLAN KELLY
that I went to Spain.
How did you first get in-
volved in motorcycle racing
as a kid?
I always tell everyone most
people are in this world because
of their parents or their dad raced
or whatever it is, but my parents
were not into anything at all. The
only thing was my dad was a car
mechanic. That was the only
close thing. But I guess I was just
born with something in my blood.
At three, I was riding my bicycle
with no training wheels, so that
was already like, okay, something
is going on. And then I just like
everything with wheels. I like
cars, trucks, motorcycles, quads,
whatever it was. Anything with
wheels and especially an engine.
Then when I was five I wanted to
try go-karting. There's Opa-Loc-
ka, has an open go-kart rack. It's
called Miami GP Raceway.
We were like, okay. My par-
ents said, yeah, we can take
him to do some go-karting. So
we went, and they didn't let me
because I was too young. Just a
little too young. Just in front of the
warehouse with the go-kart was
a motorcycle shop. There was
an Argentinian. My parents were
Argentinian. So they just start talk-
ing a little bit, and it turns out that
he had a little pocket bike there.
He says, "Does he want to ride a
pocket bike?" Don't ask me how
my parents let me. I don't know
how they let me ride, but they let
me ride that day. They asked me if
I wanted to ride, and what kind of
question is that? I tried it there at
five years old and had all my little
gear and just tried a pocket bike.
From then on I got hooked onto it.
My parents got me a PW80, and
If you're not winning, you have to be paying.
If you don't have money and you don't have
sponsors, it's very difficult.'
Kelly got on the
podium in his
MotoAmerica debut
in the Supersport
class at Road
Atlanta.
