Nick Wey announces retirement

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Edited Date/Time 12/31/2015 7:32am
18 years racing amongst the world's best, quite an accomplishment! He's been a great ambassador for the sport.

http://racerxonline.com/2015/12/30/nick-wey-announces-retirement
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SKlein 12/30/2015 3:57pm
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Congratulations to Nick on a lengthy and successful career. Glad to hear he might still try to race a few rounds.
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davistld01 12/30/2015 4:02pm
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Huge fan of Nick...and that's a bummer, but I totally get it. He's been doing it the hard way a long, long time.
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defeatist45 12/30/2015 4:45pm
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Great dude. Hate to see him go, but I hope he enjoys his retirement.
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bents 12/30/2015 4:53pm
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Congrats on being one of the top 1% in our sport-a very successful career indeed. And you got out healthy with a great reputation in the sport. Good deal.

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TxT0RKiT 12/30/2015 4:57pm
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Great rider with a good personality. He seems like a class act is some of the interviews.
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Sully 12/30/2015 5:53pm
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Jimmy_Sloan wrote:
Good for him. Nick Wey would do a great job at the vital Q&A that they've been doing.
I was just thinking the same thing. With his personality, Nick would make an epic Q&A.

Congrats on a great career, Nick.
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GuyB 12/30/2015 6:00pm
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Sully wrote:
I was just thinking the same thing. With his personality, Nick would make an epic Q&A.

Congrats on a great career, Nick.
We're trying to make that happen starting Monday.
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dirtnapper 12/30/2015 8:36pm
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Sully wrote:
I was just thinking the same thing. With his personality, Nick would make an epic Q&A.

Congrats on a great career, Nick.
GuyB wrote:
We're trying to make that happen starting Monday.
That's awesome! He'd certainly be well received I would think.

Good luck in the future Nick, hate to see ya go!
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visser62 12/30/2015 9:19pm
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Nick Wey was one rider I always liked and appreciated, regardless of results. Great career Nick, good luck in the future.
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Gukamonster 12/30/2015 9:47pm
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Some fun facts:

Nick raced professionally from 1997-2015 (parts of different 19 seasons)
* 386 entries in the RacerX Vault
* 1 Career win at the 125cc Millville National in 1999
* Finished 2nd twice outdoors ('99 Glen Helen, 125cc), ('00 Mount Morris, 125cc) and once in 125 SX (Minneapolis 2001)
* 4 podiums in 450 supercross (3 in 2006, 1 in 2007)
* Best Finish in each series (125 SX East - 2nd in 1999), (125 MX - 4th in 1999), (450SX - 4th in 2003, 5th in '04 & '06), (450MX - 6th in 2008)
* In all 386 races (250 SX/MX and 450 SX/MX) he was in the top 10 205 times
Top 12 273 times
Top 15 332 times
* Had only 5 occasions where he didn't finish both motos outdoors
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JPT 12/31/2015 2:24am
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Crisp BRAAAP! wrote:
I hope he lands an industry job and podcasts more a la JT.
This.
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burnside 12/31/2015 3:12am
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Congrats! Walking away in one piece after 18 years of professional racing is no easy feat.

Funny its only through the Pulp podcasts I've really got a glimpse into his personality, but seems like a good dude.

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davistld01 12/31/2015 7:32am
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Crisp BRAAAP! wrote:
I hope he lands an industry job and podcasts more a la JT.
He'd definately got the experiential knowledge and personality for it.

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