P92
Interview
MONSTER ENERGY YAMAHA'S DEAN FERRIS
You announced late last
year your intentions of rac-
ing in the U.S. before you
even had a ride here. Well,
now you're here.
I did call Yamaha in Australia,
because that's what I'd been rid-
ing all during the off-season, but
their budgets were all maxed out,
and I guess to throw a third guy on
with the riders they already had,
they just wanted to focus on their
riders and not upset the whole
program, which I understand. But
I've got a relationship with a brand
down there, Recover8, and Race-
Line [Performance] was a part of
Recover8, and they helped me
build a bike and said, "Yeah, no
problem, we'll take the van there
for you and take care of you." So
I ended up on a KTM for a couple
of weeks, and I went to the [Aus-
tralia] National, won the first day
[Ferris swept the motos on day
one], and the second day was a
little bit average [Ferris was fourth
overall]. It's just that I needed
some support, and I hadn't heard
about this over here, so I needed
a bike because I knew it was
time to go racing—it had been
too long—and I was prepared as
I could be for that race. It was
"I know that
sounds like I'm
a vulture, but
really, it's that
I just want to
do motocross,
and I want
to be here in
America doing
motocross."
Ferris got the call to be a fill-in
rider on the Monster Energy
Yamaha Factory Team and is
trying to make the most of it.
