Lightforce Elite
JOHN MARGOZIDIS
- How long have you been in the industry:
Racing quads for 13 years
- When you’re not driving, what do you do (for a living)?:
Organic Almond Farmer and Importer
- Family, children, pets?:
Wife Anastasia, Twin 11yo girls Daisy and Georgia, 7 yo boy Jordan and Fluffy the super cat.
- What do you drive?:
POLARIS OUTLAW IRS
- Modifications to your vehicle:
As set up for racing Australasian Safari: FAAST FLEX Handle bars, ICO trip meter, MD map reader, LIGHTFORCE HID 140 lights, Additional Oil reservoir and oil cooler, Ceramic coated FMF Power Bomb header pipe, PURE POLARIS silencer, UNI Filter, Douglas Bead Lock wheels, MAXXIS and KENDA tires, FOX Float EVOL Shocks, Lone Star A Arms, steering damper, RCI drag race fuel cells, ZXR fuel pump. Most parts were sourced from Dave Hann at Scootaround.
- First vehicle:
YAMAHA BANSHEE 350 Dream vehicle: TRX 850 powered OUTLAW IRS which is nearing completion. Best race win: 2008 Australasian Safari. Favourite race track: Open desert terrain. The bigger the rocks and the tighter the corners the better. Favourite competition: NAVIGATIONAL DESERT RALLY.
- Favourite “Off The Beaten Track”:
Riding the Kingston Sand dunes with the Quadriders SA.
- Favourite Lightforce product?:
HID.
- Career Highlight:
National Quad MX Open number two, National Quad MX veterans championship and Australasian Safari victory.
- Career Goal:
Race DAKAR as a regular competitor every year.
- Who is your idol (can be anyone!):
King Leonidas of Sparta.
- Dead or Alive – which 4 famous people would you invite to your next BBQ?:
John Belushi for laughs, Andy Caldecott for his desert racing stories, Albert Einstein for his views on how things work and Hugh Hefner for the friends he would bring along!
- Are you Arnold Schwarzenegger or Hugh Grant?:
Pfft! Bruce Lee!
