Getting to know the media game, the marketing game and the sponsorship game and learning all this which I think is really exciting to see as the kids grow up in this way. I mean the whole family races and we all revolve around that, but it’s cool to see Hailie and Haiden and Hudson all have a love and passion for not just sport and not just racing but working hard and accomplishing goals. Yeah, we see and hear a lot of it because of the social media stuff we do, and you hear a lot of people saying, "Oh, the Deegans are the American racing family." It’s cool to see. What do you make of all that has transpired for you and wife, sons and daughter? I don’t think I’m stretching it in saying you guys are America’s full-on racing family. And to be honest, we were prepared for any emergencies or anything bad that would happen. I think we kind of needed a break, as far as our family goes. Really, we’ve been home, and it has been a big break for us, and we’ve spent a lot of family time together, which is good. This where everything is at." I’m glad I did that because we’ve just been busy riding dirt bikes. All that kind of forced us to be home and then we had to decide, "Do we want to be in North Carolina, or do we want to be in California?" We then said, "Okay, let’s just stay home in California. I mean Hailie just signed a new deal with Ford, so we have a lot of new things happening and then the whole pandemic deal happened, and nobody expected that. So, obviously, we were all booked and ready to go every weekend. We’re either at the motocross rack with the boys or we’re at the NASCAR with Hailie or we’re at the off-road truck races doing either my truck racing or Hailie’s truck racing. What have you and your family been up to during this bizarre ordeal?īrian Deegan: As far as the last few months, we had a lot of stuff planned and we’re used to going wide open every weekend. Racer X: Okay Brian, Team Deegan has been locked down here in Southern California and, well, like the rest of us poor sods, riding out the clampdown. On Sunday afternoon and with a little time on his hands, Brian Deegan spoke about his Moto-X travels. The sun never truly sets on the Deegan racing empire as Brian and the three racers he and Marissa look after are always in perpetual motion.
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Yes, his two-wheel competition days behind him now, he’s assumed the role of overlord of the Deegan Racing empire where he and his wife Marissa keep the trains on the tacks for siblings Hailie (ARCA MENARDS Series stock car racer) and Hudson and Haiden (motocross racers) and their racing programs. Certainly, it’s a long journey from there to becoming a multi-millionaire with a family deeply embedded in many things motor racing. However, and back in the winter of 1997, he was living hand-to-mouth as a full-on privateer, living on friend Sondra Peters’ couch in Southern California. I’m a true privateer and I won.”Īs far as action sports, freestyle motocross and certain sectors of auto racing go, Bran Deegan is now a household name, his phone number punched into the pockets of many motor racing players in this nation. “I mean I went down and paid $4,000 for it. “I bought my own bike,” Deegan said to me. But Deegan spoke with me, still in awe that he had won. I was still an ad agency guy at the time and a ways off from making racing a full-time career. Later that evening, the darkened Coliseum pits basically a place for ghosts as the clock neared midnight, I met Brian Deegan for the very first time. “And I’m glad everyone was here to see me kick everyone’s ass!” “All I have to say is the first time I won in supercross, I promised myself I would do something that no one else has done yet,” said a very young Brian Deegan while standing atop the victory podium inside the cavernous Los Angeles Coliseum that night. The crowd of 60,000 just absolutely roared. Immediately upon crossing the finish line, he he shoved himself off the back of his RM125 and ghosted the bike well off into the South-Central Los Angeles night air. It was Saturday evening, January 18, 1997, and little known Team Moto XXX privateer Brian Deegan was about to make some very unique history by winning the AMA 125cc West Region main event over factory riders such as Robbie Reynard, David Vuillemin, and Kevin Windham. When the white flag came out, and some 30 seconds later, the racer I had been watching pinned it and headed toward the red, white and blue AMA official unfurling the checkered flag. From the infield of the ancient Los Angeles Coliseum, I stood on the inside of a tight right-hand turn and watched it play out. I wasn’t destined for motocross stardom.’ I guess I built my reputation over these years proving it and not talking about it.” “I think about stuff and wonder, ‘Man, I’m just a kid from a small town in Nebraska.
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