May 15th, 2004
My Season at a Glance
   As we near the end of the 2003 season, and the riding days are numbered, as the winter months close in. These are the days we look back on the season that just passed us by.

   As for me, my season started out with, what I like to call a minor set back. Just after the Toronto AX, where I didn't quite have the best showing, I traveled to Mississippi, for another AX race, I didn't even make it the first lap of the heat race. As I scrambled out of an inside line trying to make the triple, which resulted in a harsh case and a shattered ankle. After ten weeks of watching others tear up the red soil in the sunny south, I was about to lose my mind, which seemed like the longest 10 weeks of my life. I was so ready to jump back on the bike, and after only a few days on the bike, I was back at my first race, at the now closed London Motoplex. This race I just went through the motions and tried to get the feel of racing back.

   For the start of the outdoor season I went to the Auburn spring race on a bike I rode three times (YZ 250) and was put in deep depression as I totally got smoked. So I sat down and worked out the reasons for my lack of speed, and my parents and I figured it was the fact that I haven't had the race time. I needed to race every weekend to keep up on the fast growing speed of the Ontario racers. From that weekend on I never missed a race weekend, and slowly seen my results improve every weekend.

   I started out the provincials still behind the eight ball. As the series moved on, I seen my results go from back of the pack to the front. I had some good races and some bad, with my best moto finish being a 2nd, and best overall being a 3rd. I ended the season in 6th in the 125 pro and 3rd in the youth due to a couple DNF's. But I know personally that my speed was there, and I will be ready to win the provincials next year.

   When the national series came to the East coast, I was ready, mentally and physically. Yet the first round was a total nightmare, going down in the first moto twice and not being able to start my bike. The second moto showed promise, as I was running 15th till I got a rear flat and was forced to DNF. Going out of that round I knew it couldn't get any worse. The next round, was in Moncton, NB. The first moto, started out rough, but I put my head to it and came form 22nd up to a 14th place finish. I was pumped on that finish and went out and rode the next moto in 8th till the last couple laps I dropped to 10th, which gave me 12th overall and my best national finish to date. Next race being Quebec, and a sand track I wasn't looking forward to that race. I'll be the first to admit that I suck in the sand, let alone I had no ride time the whole week before, due to a jacked up ankle. The first moto I rode like a total squid, and finished 22nd. The next moto I went out, I just wanted to have fun with it and not worry about results, I crashed on the first lap but I got up and kept charging, and got all the way up to 20th, which I thought was a good finish considering.


   The last national Walton Trans Can. Were I rode Youth class during the week and had fun with my friends before the more serious pro racing on Saturday and Sunday. Walton is always a great time during the week, swimming, hanging out and talking about past races and the races to come. The week went by in a blink of an eye, and the 125 pro practices on the Sunday morning was on the track. In the first moto I was doing good running 12th and was moving fast toward the front of the pack. Until I went in to a full on endo, off the natural double. It all came so slow to me as I flew through the air, I was saying to my self, "Well Kyle, its been a good run." As my front end hit the landing my chin smashed off the triple clamps, knocking me a little silly, putting a huge gash on my chin and knocking my gas cap off, from the harsh impact. By the time I got my head back in the game and my gas cap screwed on, I was in 24th. This is were I ride my best, pissed off and coming from behind. I caught all the way up to 15th in one of the fastest fields yet this season. The last moto of the nationals, I went out and rode tight, and not carrying the speed I had in the first moto, but I still managed a 16th place finish. I ended the series in 18th, and ended up with national #62, for the '04 season.

   After Walton was over, and all the riders traveled back to their homes for time off before the fall racing started. For me, after racing 20 weeks straight, I was ready for a good break from traveling and being away from home. So as I sit here typing this on one of the best seasons ever, thinking about how great this sport is, and how many great people we have met over the year. But most of all looking forward to next time, I'll be on my bike shredding the black loam at our national track.

   I'd like to thank Randy, Becky, and Chuck and the rest of the Hully Gully crew for a great season with excellent support from everyone. Also thanks to Roy Coxhead, for all his support at the races, not to mention all the times he taped my ankles. Thanks to JR for all the hours he spent on my bike making it just right. Thanks to the Rachmel family, for the awesome WREX gear. And last but not least my Mom and Dad, for hauling me all over the country, and spending all their money, for this crazy sport we call Motocross.

   See ya at the track next season.

#62 Kyle Thompson


Justin Thompson: 1st in 125cc PRO & 2nd in 250cc PRO
April 3rd, 2002
Hully Gully sponsored pro racer 20 year old Justin Thompson of Brigden, Ontario won his first pro Arenacross race Saturday April 28 in the 125 class at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. Riding his Honda CR125 Thompson started on the second inside gate but quickly took the lead on the second corner and was never passed for the rest of the 12 laps. It was an amazing win and left Justin ripping and raring to go for the 250 main class race. [ Full Story ]

Thompson and Sutherland form mxschools.com
January 8th, 2002
Justin Thompson and Jeff Sutherland along with their families are proud to announce the formation of mxschools.com. These schools combine the tremendous facilites that the Thompson Farm has to offer with Jeff's years of professional racing and teaching experience. [ read more... ]

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