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With Tysen Fresquez winning the 2012 Moto Option SX Championship, and currently

leading the Motosport MX Nationals, Barry Mo-torsports Honda has turned into the powerhouse team of the RaceFactory community. Around May of 2011, Taylor and Adam Barry both created Team Barry Motorsports. Taylor says, “Well a long time ago I purchased the game for my little brother but he never really sat down and practiced. As of the last year or so he started playing quite a bit. He ended up getting faster and since we are blood related we decided to make a Team”. Barry wasn’t originally planning on being a team until Austin Jones started using Team Barry in his name for fun. “Things became a bit more serious when Jones just messing around started running Team Barry in his name for fun etc...so I made him an offer and picked him up”, says Taylor. Coming into the 2012 MotoOption Supercross Championship, they wanted another 450 rider on the team. When the team wanted another Premier class rider, Austin Jones convinced the Barry brothers that Tysen Fresquez was a great rider for the team and a dark horse for SX championship. Little did everyone know, Tysen would become argueably the best all around rider on the game in 2012. “At the time I didn’t know Tysen very well and I hadn’t even heard very much about him but Jones men-tioned he was a great rider and with Supercross coming up we had some spots to fill”, Taylor mentioned. Tysen won 5 main events and finished on the podium in 11 of 16 main events. Austin Jones closed out the season with 2 consecutive wins, but after missing 2 races earlier in the championship he ultimitely couldn’t make a solid run at the championship. Taylor Barry put his Honda 450 on the podium in 5 rounds but was never able to take a victory, including two consecutive 2nd place finishes to close out the season.

By: Devin Davis

Photo by Nathan Zaworsk

Photo by Nathan Zaworsk

Photo by Nathan Zaworsk

Photo by Nathan Zaworsk

Photo courtesy of Barry Motorsports

“A major reason why the team got bigger in my opinion is the work my brother puts into it”. Taylor Barry appreciates all the work that Adam puts into the team, “The bikes come out looking great the videos he makes helps a bit. Everything that Team BARRY has is basically 95% Adam (If not 100%) So having him around is extremely helpful”. Results have definitely played a huge role in the progression of the team, with two consecutive championships on the Barry Motorsports resume and the MX championship looking likely to add to their accomplishments as well, Barry Motorsports is now one of the most well known team in the series.

“A major reason why the team got bigger in my opinion is the work my brother puts into it”....

In the Motocross championship, with three rounds remaining, Tysen holds a 15 point lead over the hard charging Tyler Crain. Tysen is going to have to pick up his pace for the final 3 rounds of the championship to give the team it’s first ever 450 class championship SX/MX sweep. Austin Jones won Freestone earlier in the season but has decided to take a break from racing MX Simulator and come back strong for the 2013 season. Taylor Barry is also sitting 6th in the standings with consistent top 10 results. What’s next for Barry Honda? Tysen Fresquez will be hard at work on defending his Supercross championship with the #1 plate, Austin Jones will be working hard to win his first ever Supercross title, and the team will be looking for an even more dominant season in 2013 than in 2012.

MXSP sits down with Tyler Crain to ask a few burning questions!

MSI: Pizza or Burgers?TC16: That’s a tough one. I would probably have to go with burgers. It kind of depends on the day though, haha.

MSI:Well now that we got the burning questions out of the way! How did you get starting into MX Simulator?In 2008 I saw one of Mittoc’s videos on the Team Cartel Compound and then just started looking up all kinds of MX Sim videos on YouTube. I had the demo for few months, and then I remember that something happened with my computer, and I couldn’t play anymore. Later on, I had saved up 40 bucks and I gave it to my dad and asked him if he would order the game for me. I got the CD two days later.

MSI: Do you ride IRL? If so do you think MXS relates to the real thing?TC16: I do ride in real life. MX Sim relates to real life in a lot of ways, but they’re also different in certain scenarios.MSI: What why? you let go of the handle bars when you crash? Be a man and hold on! haha I guess everyone wants to know how muchyou play per day?TC16:Haha. During a week without a national or any kind of race that I’m going to do I usually try modeling something or playing different games. On a week like that I’m probably playing 2 - 2 1/2 hours at the most each day. During a week with qualifying I usually spend 2 or 3 hours on justthat track and maybe an hour playing in a different server

MSI: Do you play any other MX games?TC16: I do have Reflex on PC and PS3, and I usually play that every once in a while. I would say they are the only two MX games I play though.

MSI: So the MXS National championship is getting tight! Pressure getting to you?TC16: I try not to pressure myself. It is a game after all! I just go in every week hoping to do well. I want the wins, but I also just want to be getting good, consistent finishes.

MSI: What are your MXS plans for the future?TC16:Haha. During a week without a national or any kind of race that I’m going to do I usually try modeling something or playing different games. On a week like that I’m probably playing 2 - 2 1/2 hours at the most each day. During a week with qualifying I usually spend 2 or 3 hours on justthat track and maybe an hour playing in a different server

MSI: Well thank you for sitting down with us! Any last words before we let you get back to your 24/7/365 moto schedule? HAHA kidding!TC16: Thanks for having me! I also want to say thanks to rF and everyone involved for all their hard work that they do to put on these races, and thanks to JLV for the awe-some game we all love to play!

Tyler Crain is a serious title contender for the 2012 Motosport Nationals presented by One Industries. Shown here on his MXiD Yamaha.

Photo by Tyler Crain

Hey everyone! I see you’ve stumbled across my rant box. As some of you know, my name is Ben Fransoo, but lots know me as “Shredder”. I have plenty of cool things to bombard you’re brains with, but for this column, I’ll just start off by letting you guys get to know me and my team a little bet-ter. Grab some popcorn.

A lot of the MXS community thinks being a team manager is this dreamy, high-end job that requires no work. That in fact is quite the opposite. I was a privateer for about 2 months when I just started playing the full game. I had never played MX vs. ATV or anything, since my parents are firmly against video games. I don’t know how I did it, might have been good marks on my final exams or something, but I finally convinced them to let me buy the game. I saw all these guys on teams and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of course, I was still a hardcore noob so I knew my chances of being on an al-ready founded team were slim. I started my own team when I learned how to skin, called “SE Racing Honda” with my newfound friend Javier (Jaruro38). I haven’t stopped working since.

Of course that team would expand, and thanks to Javier’s unique way of translating English, go by the name “SE Racing”. Let me be clear, when I released my SE racing bikes, I meant SE as in “Special Edition” since they where BLUE Hondas. I was too exited by the fact that I was on a team to care though, and soon enough I had another PM come from one of my closest buddies in the game still to this day, James Garrett. I had no idea who he was, be he was polite, his sentences were well constructed, and I didn’t see a single spelling error. Today, he still works as my sidekick. Without hesitation, we added him to the team. We didn’t race much at all, mostly they just helped me test skins and learn about the game. I knew at some point I needed to get a more serious team structure together. This magically came at the same time I got the taste of custom graphics. I had a plan.

After decent success with my custom gear for SE racing, I decided to step up my game and create my own set of gear/bike for my team to run. My good friend in real life, Thomas Osborne (Who’s actually a bad-ass swimmer, winning 7 medals in the Brazil meet), was keen on helping in any way he could, although not having the game. He came up with the name “Terralite Studios”, and I loved it from the first time I heard it. For the first semester, we had a graphics class together, and we did tons of original projects with “Terralite Studios” always written on the bottom of our work. I brought it into MXS as the perfect way for me to use the name. I got together some more guys for the team, and we bounded into 2012 head on. However, to be blunt, SX that season kicked us in the pants.

For nationals, I completely re-assembled the team once again, and we finally made some big steps forward. Next year of course should be even better, stay tuned!

Photo By Ben Fran-soo

HURRICANE MILLS, TN

The 2012 Race Factory Gaming Amateur National Championship is behind us and what a great two weeks it was from the Loretta Lynn’s Ranch. Yet another great track was built for us from

JBMedia’s James Bolen and after some late night drinking on the Monday prior to the event, Bolen had his track out to the public and ready to rip.

Day one at Loretta’s was on a Tuesday and the Race Factory crew sought to fill in the two week break between Washougal and Southwick with four days of action from the Ranch that began on Tuesday July 24th, and ended on Thursday August 2nd.

The racing got underway with three 2-lap races for the 50cc riders and unfortunately some contro-versy was the storyline from this class. Going into the last Moto, the always quick Tyler Crain had collected a 1st and a 2nd from the first two Moto’s respectively.

Charles Sweeney from rF!

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He seemed to have the Title all wrapped up cruising in 3rd place on the last lap until a strange collision with Jared Siedhoff right before the finish line. As they hit in a battle for second, Crain fell to the ground while Siedhoff stayed up and crossed the line in second. Crain remounted and finished 6th but lost the title by two points in the Overall to Siedhoff.

An obviously frustrated Crain was livid after the race with Jared but no penalty was declared and Sied-hoff ’s scores of 2-3-2 would hold up to take the first Title at Loretta’s.

Onto 125C and more drama came in a different light. A relatively easy Title was claimed by the No. 412 machine of Chris Quinlan with scores of 1-1-2. Austin Grabow won the final Moto but after Quinlan had gotten a dead last start. Some people were questioning whether the C class was the right place for Quinlan but it continued to be a theme all week. Nonetheless a great win for Quinlan as he rode hard to win the 125C Title.

Next was 125B and it was Zach Ginter taking the Title with scores of 1-2-1 and some smooth riding with quick lap times. The story out of this class was the recovery of Jason McNeil, a Lites main event winner this year, as he tried to play with a severely broken arm making it tough to brake for corners. He showed that he was up for the task however with scores of 2-1-2 for second Overall. No stopping Ginter on this day however.

125A wrapped the first day up and Siedhoff made the quick change onto his 125 machine to take his second Title of the day with scores of 2-1-2. Zack Dupuis and Tysen Fresquez also collected Moto wins from this class with the two coming home in 2nd and 7th respectively.

Fast forward two days and Thursday night was upon us. Racing kicked off with the 0-20 age group class and 2012 Supercross champion Tysen Fresquez was the first to flex his muscles on the night taking 1-3-1 Moto scores to his first Title at Loretta’s. Jeremy Smith and Patrick Evans rounded out the podium with some great battles between the three of them mixed into the action at some points.

Sticking with the Premix theme from the week, 250 two-stoke C was the next class to hit the track and Austin Grabow came back from defeat in the 125 division to claim his first Loretta’s Title with scores of 1-1-2. David Kelly rode great for second and even won the final Moto snatching scores of 2-2-1.

Onto the B riders in the 250 two-stroke division, it was some good battling but ultimately a walk in the park for Evo Industries’ Dylan Galicki taking the Title with scores of 2-1-1. Christian Cicero was second with a Moto win as well taking scores of 1-2-3.

In the A class, it was all about the blue bikes at the front as five Yamaha’s took up the top five spots in the Overall. MXiD’s Robert Nash was the 250 two-stroke champion with System Decal’s Jared Siedhoff tak-ing second in his final bid for a title at Loretta’s. Nash’s teammates Austin Gourley, Alex Welsh and Kel-len Brauer rounded out the top five respectively.

After a long weekend away, the MX Sim community came together on the following Tuesday for the week of four-strokes. But the first group off of the line was the 21+ age group. The competition was not necessarily the other riders, but maybe the level of alcohol consumed pre-race.

Zack Dupuis was the first rider out of the entire event to go 1-1-1 for the Title which was amazing see-ing that he was taking a shot after each crash and he ‘crashed a lot’. He was never headed and cruised to some fairly easy victories.

Onto the 250f C class and some flavor from across the pond known as the Pacific Ocean as Aussie sen-sation Craig Richards took the title with scores of 1-3-1. Drew Swenson and Josh Shelly rounded out the podium with Josh taking the only Moto win that Craig did not.

The B riders were next sticking to form each night going backwards in the alphabet and the night of 1-1-1 domination continued as FAT Racing Honda’s Bryan Hale pulled away from the field each Moto to take the 250f B championship.

In the A class, a stacked list of riders lined up including names such as Owen, Nash, Mayer, Botten, Davis, Fjeldberg, and Tickle just to name a few. Patrick Evans snuck in to win the second Moto but that was the only hiccup in Robert Nash’s run for his second Title collecting scores of 1-2-1. Mayer and Dwayne Iles filled out the podium surprisingly ahead of Lites West Supercross champ Mikey Owen.

After another day off, the final night of racing was already upon us as the big 450’s took to the track. Only three classes out there this time with no special class to start the event it was straight into the C class action.

Quickly becoming a C class legend, Craig Richards won every Moto in the 450 class as well making it 5 for 6 in Moto wins for Richards at Loretta’s and became the third person to win every Moto in his class. Jerry Williams and Mike Garro not only rounded out the podium but were the only three people to start all three Moto’s.

Next up was the B riders and some good battling took place between Dan Boivin and Christian Cicero with the latter of the two getting the overall as Cicero’s 2-1-1 beat out Boivin’s 1-2-2 by one point for the Title. Good racing indeed.

Finally to wrap up the festivities a stacked field of 450 riders took to the track and drama unfolded. Austin Gourley nabbed the first Moto win and then his computer restarted itself on the line for Moto 2. A DNF for him led to Sabrina Ritzler taking the win and had scores of 6-1 after two Moto’s. A three-way tie in the points lead between Jack Roberts, Jordan Vanderlee, and Jeremy Shipley was in play heading into the last Moto and Shipley came through with the Moto win to take the final Title home from Loretta Lynn’s.

A very successful two weeks of racing with some drama but a lot of fun as a whole. A lot was made men-tion during the event about licensing for 2013 and Race Factory was quick to answer the doubters.Beyond that 15 Titles were handed out to 12 people as three riders [Siedhoff, Nash, and Richards] took home two National Championship plates from the event. A great turnout of riders and some fun racing to boot made for a great event and 2013 can only be better. Thanks to everyone who participated!Check out full results at http://www.racefactorygaming.com/lorettas/ .

MX in Depth’s Alex Welsh

Photo By Kellen Brauer