Jiri
Dostal Journ€gman
Jiri
D6tal
b
orle
oftle mary
ioumeyrnan
rid-
ers thx make up the bulk of the Supercross
prognrn
eadr
r,veekend,
Tlte SoCal-spon-
sored rider sis in 26th sverall in the series
standings
after makirE thr€e
nrajh
events
d$s
yeal
but he has missed ssr'eral rnain evefits
by
just
one or two
po,sitions.
Dostal is defi-
nitey
on his way up in the world of
Superqoss urd
is
on
dle ver8e of
po6sibly
be.oming a
regular in the top 10. V1/e hlked
to Dostal about
his season before the
Houston
rourd
at
Reliant Stadium.
cft
You hav€ an hHirg
back-
qrund
Td us a Ettk about it
ilrirGtd:
I was bom in the Czech
Republic
and my family brought me orer here when
I
was four or firc
years
old.
My dad
grew
up
widr
.larosla/
F"lb. and he was his best friend
growng
up.
So
ny dad trrveled around widt
Falta and dEtt how I
got
interested in it. l4y
dad
war interesled in rnotocross, and he
got
me started
wtrcn I was about nine after we
tEd rnoved to Califomia"
crt
\for
hd
llteEttE sbrt to
llE
s€asqr
h
B.ofito
irk
6td: Yeah, our
\farnah6
were sup
posed
to be
in
the
week of the Toronto
round, but tlte/
got
kind of delayed or
pushed
back a bit, because fey diJnt
releae
them o the dealers
for
so
lon8. Vlb drcUght
about taking them up ttEre without ridirE
them, br.rt
we decided to
,L6t
race ttE old
Hor&6 at dnt €rr'eff and
get
the Yarnahas
ready
for
ArEheim.
or tlonr tlE ttE scason
bsr for
Uolr
so faP
iiridGtal:
lt's been a little
frustrating
beGuse
the nEnrs
that ldidnt rnake
-
I was,ust right
there. lt wasn t like I was
getting
eigtth
in
the
LCQ. I was
iust
missing
it by one or two
spoa every tirne. h seems like I am alwap
iust
right *€re and
iust
missing
it
by thea
little
bit. I was really stnLggling with sars for a
while and Doug Dubach kind of helped me
out with that. He's the sponsor of our tearn,
and he carrte
out and help€d me with tlat.
E\€r
since dEn, it lEs kind of rumed around
for me,
cft \Ui\rc had a fafl insbncE
\lYtlsr
Upu
rrb* tE rn*r but had
p.otlgIr5.
iiridostalr
Yeah, dEre was a few nuins
wtrcre I threvr it aaa;rr I had a
Sood
position
bcked
aara)r and crashed or
got
taken ouL lt
was
il,Ist
a couple of sffpi
