Keep Calm And Moto On

Handling Pressure W/ Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green’s Stilez Robertson.

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Racing motocross can cause a roller coaster ride of emotions for a rider of any level—young, old, beginner, or even professional. It’s a high-speed, high-heart-rate, and sometimes-dangerous activity that gets a rush of pure adrenaline flowing through you from the drop of the gate all the way to the finish line. With all of these race-day emotions comes mental pressure, whether it’s self-instilled to do well or from the need to deliver for major sponsors who support you. One young racer by the name of Stilez Robertson certainly endures more pressure than most kids his age on any given race day and does so with style and grace. There aren’t many kids his age who have lined up behind a gate that drops inside a sold-out stadium like at Monster Energy Cup!

At this year’s TransWorld Motocross Mini Major, Stilez was an obvious standout, won plenty of races, and spent numerous laps leading those races even with a very fast Carson Mumford thumping his four-stroke rev limiter right behind him. Stilez and a few others were also told by editor-in-chief Donn Maeda prior to the Mini Major that we were toying with the idea of putting the Supermini Open class winner on the February cover, marking the first mini rider ever on the front of