INTERVIEW
AMA EAST 250 SUPERCROSS CHAMPION JUSTIN BOGLE
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recover and prepare. The shoulder in-
jury, it turns out, was the toughest to
heal. In fact, it still nags him to this day.
"Besides my back, I also broke my
shoulder blade, so that was a rough
start to the season," says Bogle. "It
was a tough couple of months, but I
had great people around me to help
me get through it."
At first Bogle wasn't sure he would
ever race again but with a lot of thera-
py and rehab, he was in good enough
shape to line up on the starting line
that February night in Dallas to start
the east series.
"I came into that first race pretty un-
prepared," says Bogle. "A lot of peo-
ple thought I was out of it, but I stuck it
out and kept on pushing."
It didn't help that Bo-
gle got a terrible jump
off the gate in the main
event and was nearly
last at the end of the
opening lap. "I just put
my head down and tried to make as
many passes as I could," Bogle says.
"I knew I needed to salvage as many
points as possible if I was going to have
any chance at winning the champion-
ship."
Ultimately, Bogle was able to work
his way into fifth by the end of the race;
not a great start to the season, but
when you consider what he had gone
through the previous six weeks, well, it
really was a great start.
"Obviously, I wasn't the best guy that
"A LOT OF
PEOPLE
THOUGHT
I WAS OUT
OF IT, BUT
I STUCK IT
OUT AND
KEPT ON
PUSHING."
Bogle clinched
the '14 East
250 SX title at
Las Vegas.
