Personal History
My name is Malhon Godwin, I'm a 24 year old mechanical engineer from southern Indiana. I raced open wheel formula cars throughout college, before starting to ride motorcycles my senior year. I rode for about a year when I was in a bad accident which shattered my left tibia requiring a bone graft. Luckily I made a full recovery and have been riding since. This year was my first year racing with NASA's Rallysport Rallymoto series. I have steadily improved each race, winning the second and third events of the year, and winning the season championship for the Rallymoto Dakar class. Next year I plan to continue this whIle adding additional desert and navigation training before completing the NORRA Mexican 1000 rally in 2017.
Riding Goals
My overall long term goal is to finish the Dakar Rally. To accomplish this, I have several lead-up races over the next few years to reach this goal.
2014: Procure entry level race bike, begin training for NASA's Rallysport series.
2015: Race in all NASA RallySport Atlantic Cup Events
2016: Continue NASA RallySport events, begin training for desert events
2017: Compete NORRA Mexican1000/Sonora Rally, compete in NASA events time/vacation permitting
2018: Compete in Baja Rally as well as Mexi1000/Sonora Rally
2019: Team Race Baja1000
2020: Solo Race Baja500 as part of the Dakar Challenge Series
2021: Complete the Dakar Rally
Competitive Highlights
First year racing:
Sandblast Rally: 4th in class, 11th overall
Magnum Opus Rally: 1st in class, 3rd overall
Black River Stages Rally: 1st in class, 2nd overall
Atlantic Rally Cup Championship: 1st in class, 2nd overall