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Are the Mortons done racing? I havent seen Alex or Gabby's name in any results this yr. Its sad if so, they are really good kids!
That track has been open and closed a bit. I didn't ride there this years at all.
No MX for the Morton family. Not to highjack a thread but the subject of safety kept creeping into the conversation. Combine that with the travel and lifestyle that was going to be neccessary to go to the next level and they made a change. Alex is racing bicycles - Velodrome and Cyclocross. We even got big Alex back on the bicycle. The whole family is very involved and we talk and see them often.
Alex went to Jr Nationals on his first try and made the podium. He really has a gift for competition.
Great to hear from you.
As sad as it is....i'm glad a conversation about a former racer can bring old friends together.
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I understand about the safety thing, but anything can happen, anywhere. I quit when JD passed but it was Big Ed that told me that JD would never want me to because of what happened.
I know what you mean about it being sad, but it means that he will never be forgotten. The way to keep our fallen is to keep talking and thinking about them. All I have to do is look at my tattoo for JD or call my son. He is named after him.
here is my email addy, drop me a line sometime!
blainmx11@yahoo.com
I also remember them having huge stacks of trelleborg tires in their pit.
Hey TomZ! Good to hear you on here, hope to see you this coming race season, have a good christmas and new year....see ya.....Dave Horvath
Was just thinking about him the other night as I mounted some tires using something Ed gave me.
wow I signed up just to reply to this post because I randomly googled jd to see what the ole internet had to say about em. I was at the track that day also. maybe racing the 65 or 85cc class. My parents usually worked (staging, flagging, refereeing, registering, scoring, tallying and keeping series points) the races and my brothers and I just rambled around until our motos. Usually me being the oldest would have to go find the younger ones all the way down at the mud bog or somewhere 3 miles back on the mountain bike trails. But that day one of my brothers and I were were coming up the backside of the hill at (ocala motorsports park/hardrock) to watch that race and my brother saw the first medic responding to JD. I think the medic may have even fell down the hill but she said it was bad right then. My question was how did it happen, because I was just getting to the point of doing that step down but never did after that. I had heard maybe he hit a big rock and it shot him off tha track? either way that whole back section was so scary. And yes that send off at orlando Supercross still makes me cry when I hear that damn mariah carey song with the R&B band ‘one sweet day’. I do believe he is watching us and having bo regrets that he passed while charging hard and having a great time in life.
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