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Seems like James and his team are not on the same page. This was the only PR I could find about Millville.
From Seven MX:
Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing's James Stewart has suffered a considerable amount of bad luck in the last few races and, unfortunately, he experienced more of the same at round eight of the 2014 AMA Pro Motocross Championships in Millville, MN, on Saturday. This was particularly unfortunate since Stewart had been looking forward to the Spring Creek National, having picked up the overall victory there last year.
At first, things were going well and the opening moto saw Stewart get a good start on his Yoshimura Suzuki RM-Z450. Then, while running fourth on the first lap, Stewart suffered a get-off but remounted to finish seventh. In the second moto, Stewart lined up on the gate and got another good start but wasn’t feeling 100 percent. Because of a gate malfunction, the race was red flagged early and the riders lined up again. At this point, Stewart said he felt disoriented and dizzy, and retired for the day.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed,” said Yoshimura Suzuki Team Manager Mike Webb. “But more than that, we’re concerned about James. We’re not really sure what’s going on or whether he’s suffered health issues that we were all unaware of at the previous rounds. One thing is for certain, it's been a tough few weeks for James and that's taken a toll on him and the team. Right now, we’re going to get James checked out by a physician and play the next few days by ear. His health is our number-one priority.”
Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing’s next race is round nine of the 2014 AMA Pro Motocross Championships on Saturday, July 26th, at the Washougal National in Washougal, WA.
From Seven MX:
Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing's James Stewart has suffered a considerable amount of bad luck in the last few races and, unfortunately, he experienced more of the same at round eight of the 2014 AMA Pro Motocross Championships in Millville, MN, on Saturday. This was particularly unfortunate since Stewart had been looking forward to the Spring Creek National, having picked up the overall victory there last year.
At first, things were going well and the opening moto saw Stewart get a good start on his Yoshimura Suzuki RM-Z450. Then, while running fourth on the first lap, Stewart suffered a get-off but remounted to finish seventh. In the second moto, Stewart lined up on the gate and got another good start but wasn’t feeling 100 percent. Because of a gate malfunction, the race was red flagged early and the riders lined up again. At this point, Stewart said he felt disoriented and dizzy, and retired for the day.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed,” said Yoshimura Suzuki Team Manager Mike Webb. “But more than that, we’re concerned about James. We’re not really sure what’s going on or whether he’s suffered health issues that we were all unaware of at the previous rounds. One thing is for certain, it's been a tough few weeks for James and that's taken a toll on him and the team. Right now, we’re going to get James checked out by a physician and play the next few days by ear. His health is our number-one priority.”
Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing’s next race is round nine of the 2014 AMA Pro Motocross Championships on Saturday, July 26th, at the Washougal National in Washougal, WA.
But if I ran Team Yosh Suzuki, Id be thinking two things today -
(1) What to do with the rig? Send it to Washougal, or back to Corona?? Problem is that the team all begins and ends with James' health, which they may not have a handle on yet, which brings me to (2), IF they had a 250 rider they would still be able to take the rig to Washington and support him.
When the rig is off the road and away from the races, all the product sponsors who paid Yosh/Suzuki get nothing for their money.
One rider teams are a losing proposition IMO.
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If Stewart is banned from sx next year and Suzuki doesnt find this out till its too late to sign someone of quality then why not fold up shop and put 1/3 the money that would have went into Stewart into RCH? Seems like a good budgett cutting move.
Hell, they could even help RCH to b a 3 man team and keep both Tickle and Peick with the money they would save from not having to fund team Stewart
And I got a hard time from the usual nut tuggers on here for saying how unprofessionally things are handled by the Stewart's...
Slurp slurp! Have another gobble of the BFD, Lenny!
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