Timmy Ferry Announces his Retirement from Motocross

Former Factory Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki rider
Timmy Ferry
announced today that he’s retiring from professional motocross effective
immediately. Ferry has been trying to recover from a broken heel
suffered at
the 2009 Daytona Supercross and although he came back to race last
summer, the
injury lingered and prevented “Red Dog” from riding to the best of his
ability.

“Going into 2010, I had a couple of offers to race
but I
thought it was best to just heal up and try to get back to being able to
train
and ride the way I need to in order to be competitive. Unfortunately, my
foot
has not allowed me to do that.” says Ferry “I can’t race to the level I
was use
to so it is time to hang up my boots”

With a professional career that started in 1991 as a
multi-time amateur champion, Ferry has certainly left a mark on
professional
supercross/motocross with the 1997 125 East Coast Supercross championship,
a
3-time member of Team USA at the Motocross des nations, two 125
supercross
wins, four AMA motocross national wins, an AMA rookie of the year award
in 1992
and the top privateer award in supercross in 1999.

Having achieved a career that spanned so long and
produced
so many wins and podium finishes certainly makes it easier to accept
retiring
for the 35-year old Ferry.

“I can’t believe that I’ve been able to do as much
as I have
in the sport and I’m grateful for all the fans that cheered me on over
the
years as well as the relationships that I’ve made. Everything I have in
my life
has been because of motocross and even though I feel like I’m ending my
career
a little prematurely, I have no regrets with how everything has turned
out”
said Ferry.

“I had a ton of fun in my career, especially the
last few
years when I rode for Monster Energy Kawasaki and I’d like to thank
those guys
for everything they’ve done for me. I’d like to thank everyone at
O’Neal,
Scott, Etnies, Gaerne, OMS Sports and most of all my coach and trainer
Dean
Golich and the CTS crew for always keeping me in great shape. Also my
doctors
Warren Kramer, Thomas Bienz, Sten Kramer, Greg Solis, Gardner Tarlow and
Stanley Moles for being there for me.” 

“I’d also like to thank Yamaha Motor Corp, Factory
Suzuki,
Mike Rossini and Alan Brown for all that they’ve done. As well, I’d like
to
thank the media who have always been great to me and Steve Matthes, Mark
Russell, Shawn Irwin, Jason Hasseig and the Nicolini family for their
support
and most of all my family for supporting me in every way possible.
Thanks to everyone
for a great career!”

If you want to hear more from Ferry discussing this
decision
as well as a look-back at his career, check out the BTOSports.com TWMX Podcast
show right here.
http://motocross.transworld.net/1000098269/features/btosportscom-twmx-podcast-with-tim-ferry/