Interviews

The name may not be familiar to the new crowd, but if you've been around, you've seen Pete Maly's photos

"One minute we are battling each other, and up on the podium, and then the next minute he is in a hospital bed. The initial prognosis was looking a little grim"

"The depth of riders is crazy. You can be in 18th and have guys that are on factory bikes battling with you"

Why he doesn't shake Eli's hand any more, why he won't go back to the MXGP series & what's up with the French MXDN team controversy

"We definitely had a rude awakening at the first couple rounds in outdoors, so the team put some work in"

Team Yamaha has taken a lot of gambles on riders recently, but the most unlikely pick has been their biggest success

They aren't just numbers in the results, factory riders are real people with lives that you need to know more about

Chad wants to line up at Anaheim 1 in 2019, but only if he is riding a factory bike. Did Chad's performance at the Ironman turn enough heads?

"An Austrian bike compared to a Japanese bike is completely different and it took me a while to get used to it in Supercross."

From South Africa to Europe to the 125 World Championship to the fateful phone call to the 450 National Championship to eye problems

"I believe that in some way people can look at my story and find hope, encouragement and some sort of light there."

You may think you hate Tony Alessi, but reserve judgement until you hear the story behind the story

"I am racing with injuries that a lot of people would be out an entire season with, but we are just trying to keep digging at it"

Steve Wise is the only rider in AMA history to win an AMA 125 National, 250 National, premier Supercross, ABC-TV Superbikers, AMA Athlete of the Year and an AMA Superbike road race National.

American motocross didn't exist until Lars Larsson came to America to make it happen—thanks Lars

"I was winning both times when I got taken out, so that sucks"

"The last couple of weekends I was so far behind, but I could not really do anything about it"

Dave Arnold always knew that I wanted to be a factory mechanic and said, "Hey, we could use you. I have an opening for a mechanic. Would you really be interested?"

"There are a lot of races to go obviously, but from 32 points down to now leading the championship, it is unbelievable"

"By the end of the year, I want to be inside the top ten consistently."

"My whole upbringing was brought up around some of his quotes, like “you got to fail until you fail to get back up” or if you say you “are going to do something, you do it.”

Covington, a relative unknown in America, has been on the Grand Prix circuit for five years—he'll be a rookie in the USA

"I just try to do my best at each race, and don’t try to think about the whole series."

"My goal this year has been to just race every single round, stay as happy as possible, and finish within the top ten."

"I knew at the high intensity that we were racing at, that some of the boys would be feeling it in moto two, and I was pretty certain that I was right."

"Believe it or not, I was back on the bike Monday after Vegas, and back to getting out there for outdoors"