Mason

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My name is Mason Ferguson. I was born in Grand Rapids, I now live in Stanton. Some of my =====

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many hobbies. My Mom's name is Danielle and my Dad's is Corey. =====

3 other dogs that are beagles we hunt rabbits with them.
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Heavens Calling 811 Heavens Calling 811 is a song made by a motocross racer/rapper. His name is Brandon Mays “Bmayzee”. The whole thing is about a kid named Josh Lichtle who died earlier this year while racing in a pro national at a track called Red Bud. He was in his early 20’s and was running great on a July morning. He crashed the first moto but was all right and he finished. The second moto he started the race but when he was about 15 to 20 minutes into the race he fell in a corner and started having a seizure. The medical crew got him off the track and put him in an ambulance then Josh kept having the seizures on the way to the hospital because of a heat stroke. The medical crew put him in a drug-induced coma so he would stop having the seizures. When they arrived at the hospital he was in bad shape. They put him on life support hoping and praying he would come out of the coma. 2 days passed and nothing happened the Lichtle family just waited and prayed that they would soon be re united with their Josh. On the 3rd day it was obvious that Josh wasn’t coming back. They took him off life support and when that moment hit terror went through the Lichtle family. They didn’t want to believe what had just happened. Motocross racers have done a lot to help the Lichtle family and the RIP Josh Lichtle foundation. One of the things we have done was have an 811 ride with the wings ride day at a new track called Valley Motocross in Stanton Michigan. Josh was coming back to the pro ranks after a bad crash he had in 2006 it was his first pro race back. He was brought to the Saint Josephs Medical Center where he later died. Josh Lichtle was only 23 years old when he passed.

B Mayzee has done some great things for his best friend Josh along with making a song about him in his memory and getting a track called Baja to dedicate there labor day weekend race to Josh. There is many fundraisers’ at the track to raise money for the foundations they’ve made for Josh. From my heart Josh was my friend/family and a great racing friend.

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** Advice I would give ** I would give advice to a famous person that lives today his name would be Ricky Carmichael A.K.A the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). Ricky was a professional motocross rider I use to idolize as a kid. Growing up motocross has always been around me. Ricky was the only pro rider I really liked when I was growing up. He was the best motocross rider ever. Motocross is what it is today because of him and fellow riders he rode with in his time.

Ricky Carmichael was the man of all men in motocross. He had over 7 Supercross (indoor racing often done in winter) titles he had over 7 outdoors racing class titles to. When he first started riding pro class he rode a Kawasaki then he started to ride Honda’s a little bit then he rode Suzuki’s for the rest of his racing career.

The advice I would give him is that he should not have quit pro motocross when he was at the top of his game. He was the man to beat for so many years then he retired and started racing Nascar series in a craftsman truck. He now lives in Florida with no job at all. I mean for sure he is set for life with billions of dollars for being such a great action sports athlete but really he could still have a pro ride in motocross and be banging bars with the guys he always use to.

I know he was a fan favorite for everyone. Most everyone I knew loved to watch Ricky, now tha he quit racing hasn't been as fun to watch pro motocross because now there is a pro guy named Ryan Villipoto and no one is even close to being as fast as him so he just runs away with every race with no one to challenge him like Ricky used to. So my opinion if Ricky would have stayed with his career he had started then he would’ve been the best there ever was. The oldest pro rider out there just turned 37 (Kevin Windham) Ricky Carmichael was only in his early 20’s when he retired from the sport. I have always wondered what the reason was for him retiring if it wasn’t the age what was it? When I grow up I would like to be just like him but use my own advice to him and not retire so early. For all I know though maybe it was an injury he had that he didn't tell about. Maybe it had something to do with him mentally, motocross takes a high demand of mental toughness to be good at. The world may never know the true reason why he retired at the top of his game. That is advice I would’ve given him if I could have met him and ever talked to him.


 * Most Memorable Time**

Some of my most memorable times are when I got my first dirt bike or when I raced my first motocross race. But the most memorable is when I won my first motocross race I was so pumped. It was last summer and it was on the Friday night before the race Saturday morning and I knew it was going to be great. It had rained all Friday night and I love racing in the mud I was ready to go I couldn’t wait to get to the track Saturday morning. I felt pretty good about my practice “It looks like you might be the fastest one in your class today” my dad said and I got ready for the first race. I went and won the first race all I had to do now was win the last one and I’ve done it. I’m on the gate in the 2nd race I have butterflies in my stomach and all I need to do is just keep a good head and get a good start and I will be that much closer to winning my first race. I did it I got a great start and I couldn’t believe how much I was ahead of everyone else. I had almost a 15 second lead when I got the white flag and then I went down! I scrambled back to my bike in my muddy and wet motocross gear picked my bike up and kept going. At the end I won by about 20 seconds. It made my 2011 motocross season it was the best thing. I had never had that feeling before. I have been so close so many times and this time I did it. I was super pumped. -

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