I first met Dean Wilson in the early evening of Saturday, October 3, 2009 in the pit area of the Autodromo Daniel Bonera in Italy. Team Canada, of which the 17 year-old was a member of, had missed qualifying for Sunday’s 63rd Annual Motocross of Nations by one spot. Disappointed, Wilson, who had raced to a fine eleventh in the frighteningly competitive MX2 qualifying moto, was shrugging it all off, hoping to fare better in Sunday’s B Final. And he did, easily beating the other 36 riders on the gate to take the win. The winner of the 2009 AMA Horizon Award and the champion of the 250 and 450 A classes at the Air Nautiques/Amateur Nationals, the Scottish-born-Canadian-raised rider had decided to forgo the last four Nationals of 2009 to make his professional debut in Italy. A polite, friendly kid with a determination in his eyes that seems to burn, Wilson received a bit of very good news recently when word came out of the big white building located smack off the side 91 Freeway in Corona, California, that he had been chosen by racing boss Mitch Payton to join the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki team for 2010. Excited almost beyond words, today we spoke with him while he caught his breath and watched a couple of hose toting workers water down the sun-burned Kawasaki test track
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