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Honestly
Do you honestly believe they would say that James is still under contract if they had no involvement in L&Ms deal with James?
Yamaha is not a team, they dropped their factoryteam effort. They are a manufacturer / supplier to teams.
IMO both sides probably had some sort of legal foot to stand on. Like I said, if Stewart wanted out, I'm sure the waters were pretty muddy with a defunct team & it could be feasible.
I didn't take much value in it but maybe it was true.
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Yamaha is still sending Keith to the races for one reason or another no...
You're just speculating as I am. Obviously neither of us are privy to the contract's,but I do know that many sateline team riders are contracted to the manufaturer as well. But, they are contracted to a team for that manufacturer, when that team goes defunct, I would suspect the manufacturer does not have the ability to force that rider onto another team & other teams do not have the obligation to take said rider. Like I said, there's enough muddy water, if Stewart wanted out & it was all about winning, IMO he could have gotten out of it.
I had a very cool opportunity to get a tour @ Honda from one of the managers & we had a discussion about just that - only we were talking about a Factory Connection rider.
I acknowledged that a long time ago. It does not change & nobody seems to be able to answer: What happens to the Factory / Rider Contract when the team they ride for no longer exists?
..and if something goes way off the rails inbetween, someone usually lets us know
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Either it's a case of a "bad workman who always blames his tools!" or "JGR can only build a bike that turns left!"
And for the record, he pulled them over because THE COPS were the ones driving like assholes. He simply told them to slow down. Looking at that incident without socially conditioned lenses and what Bubba ACTUALLY DID is nothing to be considered an asshole for.
I wonder which forum all these other people who know so much are posting on?
Yeah Reed and the Kawi..well go back and you'll hear Reed talk about how he was not in a good place that year too (mentally he even stated he was going through a lot of Sh***)...and look again regarding James and this year, Chad..... says in his opinion it's the pace- (In response to DV's tweets about letting James try Davi's set up). Chad is out there racing these guys.
Personally, I'd love to see James break contract, buy a zuk and build a team around it like Reed..It would take balls and in addition to that I just don't see him being happy with a fourth place finish regardless what color he's on and that fact alone would most likely mean more soil samples and more speculation on set up
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