Frid’Eh Update #25 | Tanner Scott | Brought to You by RP Race Performance
Week #25 of the DMX Frid’Eh Update belongs to Tanner Scott from Oro Medonte, ON and is brought to you by RP Race Performance
By Billy Rainford
Welcome to Week #25 of the DMX Frid’Eh Update brought to you by RP Race Performance. I’ve made it back home from the western swing of the 2024 Canadian Triple Crown Series MX Nationals but it’s not been fun so far. With the site growing, I’ve been forced to move DMX to a new server. They. make it sound so straight forward on any site or YouTube video I watched before diving in. Well, it hasn’t been.
My latest issue has been with verifying the change. You’re supposed to get a verification code sent to your email address but the email address doesn’t work because the site hasn’t been verified yet! It’s a vicious circle of nonsense and dead ends.
It’s like trying to get your first job and being told you need more experience to get hired. How am I going to get experience if I don’t get hired?!
Anyway, I’ve wanted to simply throw my computer against the wall and go mow lawns for a living a few times, but I’ve managed to talk myself down off the ledge, so far…
(NB: I mowed lawns during the summers when I was in university and absolutely loved it!)
My only relief has been going for bike rides…
Nope! It’s been so damn hot here in the area that cycling has been a death march every time I’ve gone out! Everyone should be very glad that Gopher Dunes isn’t this weekend because it would be one of those years where just making it to the finish line would be an accomplishment. It’s really hot and the humidity is through the roof.
So, getting out the door and away from the Live Help Chat hasn’t been the relief I’ve been hoping for the past few days. I’m getting to know them all on a personal level it seems. Actually, the heat and humidity are supposed to break this weekend, so it shouldn’t be so bad for much longer.
Yep, the #DMXVan made it home from another trip across the country. Thank you to Hatt Automotive in Calgary for getting me set up with a couple new front tires and doing a couple other little things that helped make the trip go as smoothly as it could. I have an ABS light that seems to come on intermittently that will not allow me to use the cruise control. Whenever it would come on, I’d head off the highway at the next exit, turn the van off then on again, and that would do the trick. I’m sure it’s nothing…
Another oil change (making a grand total of 53) and I’ll be good to go for what I can only assume will be the final time this van makes the journey out to Moncton and hopefully back. However, I feel like I’ve been saying this for some time now.
What’s the odometer reading, you ask? 415,000K.
Week #25 belongs to Tanner Scott from Ontario. Tanner is travelling the series this summer with his buddy #50 Crayden Dillon. Both of these guys are excellent Snocross racers. In fact, Crayden in the current and defending Amsoil Snowcross Champion.
Tanner won the Fox Bronze Boot at the TransCan at Walton Raceway two tears in a row in 2021 and 2022! Only he and Jeremy McKie (2018-2019) have ever done that before.
Here’s a look at how Tanner’s 2024 250 Pro/Am season is going up after 3 rounds of racing:
We got in touch with him for this week’s interview. Here’s what he had to say:
Direct Motocross: Hey, Tanner. I think it’s great that you’re doing the entire series this summer. You’re on the road with 450 rider, #50 Crayden Dillon. How did this arrangement come up?
Tanner Scott: It’s funny actually, it was the Monday two weeks before round 1. Crayden was over and I wasn’t really interested in going this year. I was not in. Crayden and my dad talked me into it and we were rushing around all week to get on the road for round 1.
We’re 3 rounds into the series. Let’s go over them now. Calgary was first. 11-9 for 10th overall. How was Calgary this year? I know you told me it was better than last year. Can you elaborate?
Same result as last year for us at Calgary. Overall, I feel like I could’ve been better that day but we just weren’t. From subpar starts to falls, that’s what we were dealt with and I didn’t score points at round 1 last year so we took the positives from the day.
Then we went to Raymond, AB the following week. First, off, it was new for me and I thought the track itself was great.. What did you think of the track and the facility there at Temple Hill MX?
Sweet track but the track was gnarly. I think everyone has the same opinion – it was good racing and a cool track, just super hard to pass.
You finished 12-10 to miss the top 10 by 2 positions. How did your races go there?
It was all right. First moto I put myself up into a decent position to move forward in the early laps and just a dumb mistake and I took myself and (Hayden) Jameson down then we played catch up, but we got better each weekend and that has been the goal.
Did you manage to get into the mountains at all during the week you were so close to them? What did you do for fun while you guys were in the west?
We actually didn’t race WCAN which probably wasn’t our best idea, but we were alone and don’t think either of us could keep a bike together, to be honest. So we spent the week in Banff touring trying to soak it all in while we were out there. We road MTB, went to Lake Louise, and did lots of road biking.
And then we headed east to Manitoba. Did you do any practice days during the week leading up to the races?
Ya, we rode at Prairie Hill MX for the Tuesday practice then went to Shadow Valley on Thursday. Manitoba has some phenomenal tracks. I’m surprised we don’t see more Nationals out there. I just think the area hurts for them cuz there’s nothing around.
And then at Prairie Hill MX you had a better day going 9-8 for 8th overall. How did those motos go?
It was a good day for us. I really gelled with the track and believe I can be up front with those guys. The slow, technically rutty track was just like being at Walton. It was cool. Track was sick for how it was in the morning too.
If you had to rate the first 3 tracks, how would you rank them? What did you like and what did you dislike?
Calgary is always sweet, definitely higher up on my list, like a bucket list track. Cool jumps and it forms pretty good
Lethbridge. I’m not gonna lie, I hated it. I just felt like it was too narrow in spots and scared me. I definitely was sceptical of 40 riders going down that hill.
Pilot Mound is definitely in my top 5 tracks in the series, it was dope. The rain didn’t help us in the morning but by the end of the day the track was sick.
And how has life on the road been? Do you guys have certain things you each look after on the trailer or anything like that?
It just depends on the day. We both pitched in on most of the chores around the trailer and you would’ve been surprised how clean it was for two teenage boys.
Who does most of the cooking and what are the meals like?
I cooked most of the time. We ate the same three meals the whole trip. Lol Like sausages burgers or pulled chicken wraps.
What will you do for this break before Round 4 at Gopher Dunes?
Probably chill out. I’m going to take a week off, just refresh, and then I gotta dial in the starts and be ready to go in two weeks.
Hey, are we going to see you give AMA Supercross a shot in the future?
It’s definitely something on the bucket list, I don’t know if it’ll ever happen though. Just lack of opportunity here in Ontario. You don’t see many SX tracks around and you have to be on it so young because it’s hard to learn. Definitely will be hitting an (AMA Pro Motocross) outdoor round at some point though.
OK, thanks for taking some time with us this week. Enjoy the break and we’ll see you at Gopher Dunes. Who would you like to thank?
My mom and dad, Brentwood Roofing, Bondi Engines, St. Onge bike shop, Husqvarna Canada, Fox, JC Seitz, 139 Designs, TL Tire.
So, I don’t really want to do them, but I feel they’re a necessary part of any world class series. I’m talking about the post-race highlights videos. I didn’t do them at the first 2 rounds because I was told the series would be putting out their own. That made me happy. Unfortunately, they haven’t been doing them, so I’ll jump in and do them for DMX with the help of FXR Moto again for the rest of the summer.
Just make sure someone lets me know if and when they start doing them!
They’re definitely more of a recap because one person with one camera is pretty tough to catch all the action, but I’ll keep calling them “highlights” because I think that gets more attention.
Here’s the video from Round 2 in Manitoba:
It was so damn windy that I decided I wouldn’t be able to do my “Bigwave’s Pit Walk Wrap-Up Show” (Could that be the new title? Thank you, Michelle Halstead.) at the end of the day. It was literally pushing people off balance as they stood around! I did manage to do my MTB Loop though. Of course, after finishing it, I looked at the GoPro and it showed a memory card error, so I had to go to the gate again, just like I, too, got red flagged. Here’s that video showing that my scorecard reads 0 and 3 so far this summer:
Here’s a look the the points as we get set to head east:
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Next Round:
Courtland, Ontario
July 7, 2024
The AMA Pro Motocross Championship also takes a week off before heading to Southwick next weekend. It’s always too bad when our off weeks don’t sync up. It would be cool to see who would make the journey north to race our series on their off week. Oh well. It’s also too bad that Red Bud overlaps with Gopher Dunes in a couple weeks. I mean, I suppose I could hit both, but that’s asking a lot from the old van…and me.
Canadian AEO Motorsports KTM rider #107 Ryder McNabb is currently sitting in 21st spot, but you can see that he’s starting get the hang of racing down south, so let’s watch as he keeps gaining more and more points throughout the rest of the summer.
2024 WSX Schedule
Well, at this point, we’re starting the 2024 WSX Championship at BC Place in Vancouver.
From WSX:
This year, the FIM World Supercross Championship kicks off at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada, for Round 1 on 26 October. Next up, it’s Perth, Australia, for Rounds 2 and 3 with a double-header event at HBF Park on 23-24 November. Abu Dhabi will host Round 4, the season finale, on 4 December at Etihad Arena, with WSX joining a thrilling week of motorsport action on Yas Island, where the series’ 2024 Champions will be crowned.
I was advised not to add anything substantial to the website this week that I wasn’t prepared to do over again, so that’s why I haven’t posted a big Photo Report or Faces at the Races yet. I’ve had to give them my personal email so they can send me a verification code and then they can do the final SSL activation. THEN, I can have them switch it back to my DMX email and then everything should be good to go. I joked that I was having a lot of fun doing this on the last Help Chat and they just sent back a smiley face. Haha.
My buddy just got some new gold clubs so we’re gonna head to the driving range later this afternoon and then see if the Edmonton Oilers can take this thing to Game 7.
Enjoy the off weekend, everyone.
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