“But the biggest thing for me was to try to stay healthy this year and learn as much as I can. “I had slightly higher expectations coming in,”said Kitchen, who lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He has managed to avoid injury while continuing to establish himself as one of the sport’s top young talents - he sits in sixth place in the series’ 250-class standings heading into the 2023 Washougal National, to be held Saturday, July 22, at the Washougal MX Park. That mindset has served him well so far this season. That’s kind of where I’m at with things.” “I definitely put more emphasis on it this year, trying to get through a good season and really make next year my push to where I’ll do absolutely anything it takes to try to win. If you get hurt and you have to take some time off, you lose so much physically and mentally with your confidence - you don’t know where you’re at (because) while you’re sitting on the couch healing, everybody else is working and racing to get better,” said Kitchen, a member of the Cario, Georgia-based Monster Energy Yamaha Star racing team. “You look at some of the past champions and the people that are good in the sport now, (they) put seasons together and get that experience. The injury not only took away his first opportunity to participate in a professional race on the track that he grew up on, but virtually ended his first full outdoor season several weeks early.īound and determined to not let that happen again, Kitchen shifted his mindset entering the 2023 campaign. Washougal native Levi Kitchen sustained a broken wrist after a crash during a practice session in Minnesota in July 2022, just 10 days before the professional motocross rider was scheduled to compete in the Pro Motocross Championship’s Washougal National event.
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