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INTERVIEW WESTON PEICK P82 The team is very open with what they allow us to do. As long as we're happy and as long as our results are there, then that's all they care about. But we defi- nitely have a lot of options for the bike stuff, just having the resources through NASCAR. Have your expectations changed over the year? Do you feel like you should be on the podium every week now? Yeah, that's definitely where I want to be every single week- end—on the podium—and obviously being a championship contender. It's not obviously now because I got hurt, but that's always the goal going into the season—being on the podium every weekend and consistently being up there. Do you miss working with your dad now that you're a team rider? I don't miss working with him, but it's nice to have him at the races and stuff like that. On him working for me on the bike and that kind of situation, I'd pass on that any day of the week. There's too much head butting when you have your dad working for you. It's not the best way to have a relationship when you're working for your dad or your dad's work- ing for you. You seem really happy with a positive attitude. I'm extremely happy. I've never been happier. Being able just to show up and race my dirt bike, obviously signing with JGR has put me in that position to just be able to relieve all the stress of having to worry about getting to the races and stuff like that. Now it's just 100 percent focus on racing and my dirt bike. That's kind of also the situation that the team allows you to do. You're not exactly an over- night sensation, but it's like overnight you've become a big name. Is that kind of over- whelming for you? No, not at all. I've been racing since 2009 professionally. I've had a lot of ups and downs and I think that's just with equipment that I've had being a privateer; it's hard to break out. It's hard to start in the 450 class and not come up as a Lites rider and be seen all the time. You just keep getting overlooked for so many years and then finally you're just kind of like, "screw it." Then you get an opportunity to be on a factory team and it is what it is. You've just got to adapt to it. It comes naturally like anything else. You know what to do and you're just ready to go. Did you start out at this level on a 450 and never rode 250? Yeah, never rode 250. Was it because you're a big- ger guy? It was financially cheaper for me. You make more money rac- ing 450s, and then it was just—I'm too big of a guy to ride 250. CN Peick has been on the verge of getting on a Supercross podium for the first time. He has many fans pulling for him. "I HAVE THAT NATURAL AGGRESSION TO ATTACK REALLY QUICK AND SOON, SO THAT I CAN GET TO THE FRONT IF I DON'T GET A GOOD START."

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