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Australian ambition... Dean Ferris falls into the OTOR spotlight after an eye-catching turn for his country at the Motocross of Nations that capped a breakthrough MXGP campaign in 2013. A revealing and honest interviewee, the chat with the 23 year old Yamaha star is definitely worth a look Photo by Ray Archer
Australian ambition...
Dean Ferris falls into the OTOR spotlight after an eye-catching turn for his country at the Motocross of Nations that capped a breakthrough
MXGP campaign in 2013. A revealing and honest interviewee, the chat with the 23 year old Yamaha star is definitely worth a look
Photo by Ray Archer
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ferris<br />
australia’s MXgp star<br />
By Adam Wheeler, Photos by Ray Archer<br />
dean ferris<br />
Although he was signed without fanfare as<br />
the last part of the Monster Energy Yamaha<br />
team for 2013 there was a select group of<br />
MXGP insiders who believed the combination<br />
of Dean Ferris’ tenacity and guile and Steve<br />
Dixon’s renowned Cosworth Yamaha engines<br />
would make for a potent combination.<br />
Ferris duly pushed his career onto a higher level<br />
with a fi rst Grand Prix victory, four podiums<br />
in total and those emphatic starts at the Motocross<br />
of Nations on a carburetted 250F. The<br />
under-rated 23 year old’s story is already one<br />
of ‘arrival-after-adversity’ and now he heads an<br />
Australian GP invasion with compatriots Todd<br />
Waters and Luke Styke also set to join the FIM<br />
Motocross World Championship in 2014. Here<br />
he talks about the long journey from his homeland,<br />
a life-changing racing term this year and<br />
the prospect of MXGP next season on the Cosworth<br />
YZ450F. Fascinating stuff from one of<br />
the most earnest characters on the scene…
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