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The story of Ty Masterpool is why this sport is so awesome.
The 22-year-old Texan was once on the fast track to the professional ranks on a Star Racing Yamaha amateur to pro deal. He turned pro for the 2019 Pro Motocross Championship and would spend the first half of the season trying to find the top fifteen.
At RedBud that season he would make a name for himself. He’d pull the holeshot and lead for almost the entire Moto before dropping to fourth in the Moto. He’d finish 11th in the second Moto and sixth overall on the day. Although he didn’t get any podium finishes that first season he did show signs of his potential. He went on to win the 250MX Rookie of the Year Award.
After that first season we wouldn’t see Masterpool race until the back-to-back RedBud round of the interesting 2020 season in September. He decided to sit out of the Monster Energy Supercross Championship that year due to his size and progression to focus on Pro Motocross. Unfortunately at RedBud he injured his leg and that was all she wrote.
In 2021 he showed up with help from AEO Powersports on a GasGas, racing his first rounds of Supercross and then opening some eyes with some top ten finishes in the Pro Motocross Championship. His best finish being a 7th overall at High Point and Ironman.
In 2022, we would only see Masterpool race five Nationals on a KTM as a full privateer. He turned heads at…you won’t believe this…RedBud with a sixth overall on a bike that didn’t even have graphics on the shrouds. It was a great bounce back after signing with the Bar X Suzuki team for Supercross, but never actually racing for them. He was out of his deal with the Suzuki team after about a month into the SX season.
Then as we all remember he signed with the new HBI Kawasaki team for the Pro Motocross Championship in 2023 racing the first round in the 250 class. Soemthing wasn’t working, so Masterpool moved up to the 450 class and became the can’t miss kid of the summer. He immediately was battling with the factory riders within the top ten. In the nine 450 rounds raced he finished in the top ten overall eight times with his best finish being a sixth overall at Hangtown, Thunder Valley, and Spring Creek.
When Pro Circuit needed a fill-in for the summer they called Masterpool and put him on the bike basically the day before the Fox Raceway opener. He’s been progressing very quickly on his new ride as evident of his 15-8-7-1 overall scores.
He’s now in the record books as a winner. Accomplishing the Pro Circuit team’s 300th win in the process.
“I’m not here to participate,” Masterpool said in the press conference. “I want to be the best and all that. I believe in the team around me, I believed in my training program, that’s why I’m based in Texas it’s all for the best circumstances and best for my training. Obviously it was a very rough 3-4 years. I repeat myself a lot, but it was a lot of ups and downs, but I think that hard work pays off.”
Masterpool can be a serious dark horse for the 250MX Pro Motocross Championship. He’s down 75 points to Haiden Deegan at the moment, so the championship is out fo the picture, but he can win and take points away from those vying for the title. Now that the first win is out of the way, Masterpool knows that he has more work to do and watching is story unfold this summer is going to be interesting.
That win was for his older brother. The legendary Jesse Masterpool.
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