INTERVIEW
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SUPERCROSS/MOTOCROSSER WESTON PEICK
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY
SHAN MOORE
Y
ou're probably familiar with the
name Weston Peick. He's that pri-
vateer who has been beating up on
some of the factory race-team riders
in motocross last year and now again
in Supercross. Many feel he's a great
candidate for one of the major race
teams, yet the privateer's phone didn't
ring during the off-season. Instead, he
is going at it again with his own pro-
gram and is again pulling off some im-
pressive results.
He's proven lately that he is the real
deal, especially at the San Diego Su-
percross where the Suzuki rider came
from 15th position at the start of the
main event to claim a solid fifth. That's
the second week in a row that Peick
has mixed it up with the factory boys to
finish fifth.
The 23-year-old from Wildomar,
California, really turned heads last year
during the outdoor series when he fin-
ished fourth at the Salt Lake City Na-
tional at Miller Motorsports Park. He's
had good finishes before that, too, so
it wasn't like his ride at Salt Lake was
a fluke, yet none of the major teams
made him an offer for the 2014 season,
many of them saying positions were al-
ready filled.
Undeterred, Peick and his father put
together their own team for 2014 with
the help of Motosport.com and Fly
Racing, and so far it has been a formi-
dable combination.
Looking back on his career, Peick
got into racing at a relatively late age,
and didn't get serious about it until
2006, when he started racing the ama-
teur nationals. In 2011, Peick finished
20th overall in the Supercross final
standings in the 450 class. Last year,
If Weston Peick keeps on beating the factory racers,
he will, he hopes, be one himself some day
The
WORKING
PRIVATEER
Unable to
land a job
with the
factory teams,
privateer
Weston Peick
still continues
to post
impressive
results.
