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BY STEVE BAUER
CN
III FRIENDLY FIRE
H
ow do you make a mil-
lion dollars in racing?
Start with three million, of
course. If you have been around
any form of racing long enough,
you have heard that one before.
The sad part is that it mostly
holds true: motor sports are
expensive and costs can esca-
late very quickly, ask any team
owner. You better have deep
pockets if you want to go racing,
deeper if you want to do it right.
And even deeper if you want to
win at the highest level.
Chad Reed knows a thing or
two about winning at the highest
level. He has been doing it for
nearly 15 years. After winning
the 250cc Supercross title in
his native Australia in 1999 and
2000, Reed and his fiancé,
Ellie, headed to Europe to race
the 250 World Motocross Cham-
pionship, where he finished
second in 2001. For Chad, the
GPs were a means to an end,
just a stepping-stone on the way
to his real goal: the AMA Super-
cross Championship. Heady
stuff for a pair of teenagers from
the outback of Australia, but the
future motocross power couple
were not to be denied and set
their sights on America for 2002.
Reed's mettle was tested
when the only offer he got in
America was to race the 125
East Supercross Series for
TWOTWO MOTORSPORTS:
A HECK OF A RUN
