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VOLUME 56 ISSUE 30 JULY 30, 2019 P45 Weston Peick Update W eston Peick attended the Fly Summer Camp, which gave CN a chance to sit down and chat with the JGRMX/Yo- shimura Suzuki Team rider, who is still recovering from his serious facial injuries, which have also af- fected his vision, suffered at the Paris Supercross in December. What is the latest with your recovery? I've been doing a little bit of riding. Not much, just with all the surgeries I keep getting and follow-ups, and all that, so it's been kind of hard to ride as much as I'd like, but it's okay. I'm trying as much as I can to get out and ride, but with not being able to see well out of my right eye, it is difficult. I have to blackout half my goggle lens to be able to focus on riding or even any daily activities because I'm getting double vision from my right eye. So the vision is so poor, but it's enough to inter- fere with my left eye, which is my good eye. So it's just trying to find those little things that kind of help me focus. Doing that [modifying his goggle lenses] helped out a bunch. What are the doctors saying about your prognosis? Every doctor I see, they're just doctors. They just keep telling me stories after stories and what- ever just to cover their butts. It's just one of those things where they say it's going to take more time, more time if it does come back. It's one of those things where, since it's a nerve-damage situation, the doctors still don't know how long it takes for nerve endings to start growing back, and if they do make a full recov- ery or not. So I'm in that limbo of 50/50 right now where it could get better, or it could not get any better. There's no really knowing at this point. Professional racing-wise, do you think you'll get back to racing at some point? It's just a wait and see. I can't make any decisions right now. I just have to kind of move forward and do what I'm doing until I can make a full recovery. Then it will be a different story. For now, I'm just trying to stay busy doing other stuff and helping out with Fly and the team, JGR, and all those guys. Just trying to do as much as I can to be helping, be- cause I sit here, and I feel a little useless not being able to race or do anything like that. You look like you're still plenty fit. Yeah, I'm still training. I'm still staying in shape and doing everything I have to do to be able to race. If that happens, I'm not sitting on the couch. I'm doing everything I can and just waiting for the eye to heal up. Any last thoughts as to what the future might hold? It's still waiting and seeing. Even if I can't race anymore pro- fessionally, and I have to hang up the boots, I'll continue to be an ambassador for Fly. 2019 is 10 years since I started working with Fly. 2009 was my first year out- doors with them. They've been great to me, and I'd like to con- tinue my relationship with doing stuff with Fly and WPS (Western Powersports, the owner of Fly). That's obviously something that will be in the works, as well as still being a brand ambassador for JGR, and whatever they need me to do as well. I'll stay con- nected a little bit, but not crazy full-time like a lot of these guys want to do. I'm not really into that. If I have to retire, it's one of those things when you're done, you kind of need to step out and find something else to do. But at the same time, I'll put in a couple more years if I can't race and do some stuff with Fly and JGR. Sean Finley Weston Peick's racing future is still in limbo, but he is keeping busy in the meantime. PHOTO: SEAN FINLEY

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