MONSTER ENERGY YAMAHA'S DEAN FERRIS
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Interview
D
ean Ferris has been here
before. In 2014, Ferris
came to the U.S., fresh
off of winning the Belgium GP in
2013, to race with the Red Bull
KTM team, but he struggled in
supercross before he left and
went back to Europe. Ferris is a
motocross specialist, and here in
the U.S., supercross is consid-
ered king by most, so Ferris spent
the last five years racing in Europe
and home in Australia. In Austra-
lia, Ferris has been absolutely
dominant in motocross, winning
14 overalls in a row before finally
losing one the week before he
returned to the U.S.
His path back to the USA has
been unorthodox. After winning
three outdoor titles for CDR Ya-
maha in Australia, he announced
last August that he'd be vacating
his seat on the team to head to
the U.S., but the problem was that
he didn't have a ride yet. Getting
one, as it turned out, proved to be
a little harder than he thought. So,
he scrounged what he could and
got a fill-in ride for a few weeks
with the Rinaldi Yamaha team in
the GPs, then returned to Austra-
lia, put together a privateer KTM
effort, went out and won a round
of the Australian MX Nationals.
Finally, a breakthrough. He got a
call to come to the USA to fill in at
the Monster Energy Yamaha team
for injured Aaron Plessinger.
Now, he's here, and he'd like
to keep it that way. We caught up
with the fast Aussie at the Pala
round of the 2019 Lucas Oil Pro
Motocross Championship and
chatted about his winding path to
his latest spot on the map.
Australia's fastest motocrosser Dean Ferris is hoping to make it big in America.
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BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
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