My name is John Filippi; I am 25 years old, 6’ 1” 150 lbs. I used to race motocross in 2000 and 2001, until I wrecked really bad in October 2001 breaking my right foot, and my left hip. Almost four years of healing and trying to get back into racing in April 2005 I was at the sand dunes here in Utah when I landed too hard off a Jump and broke my left wrist. That same month I got a job that was about 45 miles away so for good gas mileage I bought a new 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6 to get to work. I instantly fell in love with the bike and rode each and everyday. After a few months of riding I started getting much better at doing stunts and handling the bike thru canyons. After I put about 17,000 miles on my R6, I decided to take it on the new Miller Motorsports Park race track. I had my first track day on September 4, 2006, at which time I toke the New Racer Certification class and became a licensed racer. On October 8, 2006 I raced the last MPRA Novice race and improved over 30 seconds that weekend. A friend from the track “Shorty” talked me into jumping up into Amateur so I could race the last Master of the Mountains with them. On October 21, 2006 I race in the final round of the Masters of the Mountains race. I raced in the Amateur GTU, Endurance, and the Fun runs. I was having problems with my brakes during the qualifying and Amateur GTU so my times were not as I would have liked. That night I got the brakes fixed and the next day I raced the fun runs and in the Endurance. I dropped some more time with the fun runs, but my best race was in the Endurance race were I finished 9^th out of 25 racers and ran my best lap time of the weekend.