VOL. 51 ISSUE 9 MARCH 4, 2014 P69
STORY BY STEVE COX
T
here aren't many bigger
stars in the motocross
world than Ken Roczen.
The Red Bull KTM racer has
been a winner at every level of his
pro career. And quickly at that.
He won't be 20 years old until
the end of April, but since sign-
ing with the Red Bull KTM squad
in 2011, he not only won the MX2
World Championship that year,
but he won his first AMA 250 Su-
percross that year as well.
The 2013 season was his
break-out year in the USA, win-
ning the 2013 250cc Western
Regional Supercross Champi-
onship and leading the outdoor
title chase for most of the sea-
son.
For 2014, the teenager signed
up for training with Aldon Baker,
training alongside Ryan Villopoto,
and moved up to the 450cc class
and promptly won round one in
Anaheim.
We caught up with the wunder-
kind just a few days after winning
his second Supercross of the
season, in Atlanta, and pulling to
within nine points of training part-
ner Villopoto in the title chase.
>>AN EYE FOR SX
Even though Roczen isn't even
20 years old yet, he's been men-
tally dedicated to Supercross
– not just motocross, but Super-
cross – for almost 15 years.
"I started riding at two and a
half, but I would say as soon as
I got into like 65s, when I was
about five or six years old, that's
when I started watching all the
Moto XXX videos and all the stuff
in the U.S. and then I knew I
needed to come over here," Roc-
zen says. "I especially liked the
Bar To Bar videos and all those
things. That's when I knew I've
KEN ROCZEN'S METEORIC RISE TO THE TOP
OF AMA SUPERCROSS ISN'T A FLUKE
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