Weston Peick built one of the most improbable careers in modern motocross. He turned pro in 2009 with no factory support, debuting at the Glen Helen National and finishing in the top ten overall in his very first race. It was a sign of things to come — but nobody was ready to bet on it yet.
From 2009 through early 2014, Weston raced as a full privateer. He bought his own bikes, funded his own program, and showed up week after week against the best riders in the world on equipment pieced together with help from family, friends, and a handful of loyal sponsors. AMA Nationals. Indoor supercross in Finland. Any event that paid. He routinely beat factory-backed riders. The phone didn’t ring.
That changed in 2014. RCH Suzuki gave him a fill-in shot at the outdoor nationals. He answered with a seventh-place finish in the championship standings. By late summer, Joe Gibbs Racing came calling. In 2015, aboard the AutoTrader / Toyota / JGR Yamaha, Weston earned his first career 450SX podium at Levi’s Stadium, then a second in Las Vegas. Over the next four seasons he became one of the most consistent and respected riders in the 450 class. His career-best sixth overall in the 2018 Monster Energy Supercross standings came while racing through torn hand tendons for most of the year.
November 2018, Paris Supercross. A first-lap crash left him with more than ten facial fractures, a broken jaw, and the eventual loss of vision in his right eye. After multiple reconstructive surgeries and nearly two years of recovery, he retired from professional racing in 2020.