"Future Of The Sport: Brianna Mahon"

We are going to take a bit of a different approach with this “Future Of The Sport” feature. Brianna Mahon is a little older than most “Future Of The Sport” type drivers, but we feel everyone would enjoy her story and introduce a side of things not many see. She is a true rookie of the 600 cc micro division, even though her career path has been an unconventional one. 

Brianna Mahon hails from east Central Illinois. She is 23 and has a business degree, while currently in cosmetology school. She is also a personal trainer and works with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as an instructor for their motocross camps. Brianna has been instructing for 7 years now and I love every minute of it. She began racing motocross in 1999 and moved her way up through the amateur ranks and eventually up to the pro ranks. Brianna has broken over 12 bones throughout the years with many other injuries along the way.

She holds two national titles from her amateur days and was able to complete one full year as a pro. In 2011 while training for her second year racing pro, Brianna was landed on by an out of control rider on a very big jump and he shattered the joints in her wrist and thumb. She had two reconstructive surgeries and was in casts for about a year and a half. She’s lost a lot of her movement, which has hindered her from returning to racing motocross. She still rides and trains kids but can never compete at the level she once did, which leads her to the world of micros.

Brianna grew up watching car races and micros, and never really thought that it was something she wanted to do. However, when she got hurt and could no longer ride, she needed an outlet, something to get her back in the racing world. So last fall her family went out, bought a car, borrowed gear and Brianna jumped on the track. Her first time ever in a car she won everything she raced. It was history from there. Brianna knew she wanted to pursue this sport and see where she could make it.

Brianna has raced every weekend since then and has been very consistent, always finishing either on the podium or in the top 5. Brianna has jumped out there with some of the fastest guys and POWRi champs and held her own and ran with them. She says, “Its such a learning experience and everything is so different from Motocross that it is a lot to take in, but I am just taking it weekend by weekend and all the advice that everyone is giving me and trying to put it to use.” Brianna hope to move up to POWRi by the fall and start doing a little more traveling to new tracks. 

Her Supporters Include:

C& F Industrial Enterprises 

Dust & Sons of Sullivan 

FCA Motocross 

GoPole 

Handlin's School of Cosmetology 

Jeff Mahon Equipment Services Inc 

MotoFab 

R&B Powdercoating 

Sign-A-Rama 

Supertrapp 

YS Designs