American Honda Announces Dan Betley as New Team Manager

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Edited Date/Time 5/17/2013 2:10pm
Torrance, CA: American Honda proudly announces Dan Betley as the new Honda Muscle Milk team manager beginning with the opening round of the 2013 Motocross season at the Hangtown Classic in Sacramento, CA. Betley successfully filled the role during the 2013 Supercross season as he led the team to two victories and six additional podiums.

Since he began his career with Honda in 1989, Betley has held multiple positions within the race team, including his most recent as Engine Development and R&D specialist. He has worked with many high profile motocross champions such as Jeff Stanton, Jeremy McGrath and Ricky Carmichael, making him highly qualified for the role as team manager.

“Dan has been with Team Honda for many years and has played an important role in the team’s success,” explained Honda Race Team Director Ray Conway. “It seems natural for him to move up to Team Manager and he has done a great job filling in during the 2013 Supercross season.”

“I’m looking forward to transitioning into my new role,” explained Betley. “It’s a challenging job but I got a good feel for what it entails while filling in during the 2013 Supercross season and I’m grateful Honda chose me to continue as team manager. We have two extremely talented riders in Trey Canard and Justin Barcia and a great team behind them, so I am looking forward to a successful Motocross season.”

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fader418 5/15/2013 1:50pm
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What ever happened to Kehoe?
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Family vacation?.....
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mattbmx63 wrote:
Family vacation?.....
Love this secret sport
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TeamGreen 5/15/2013 3:03pm
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Coming up on 25 years at Big Red. He's very Honda!

Good luck Dan!

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Keble probably tried to get FMF as the exhaust supplier.
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Family vacation?.....
fader418 wrote:
Love this secret sport
No one knows, I have asked people, no one wants to ask him, it's sort of an awkward question to ask, so Kehoe why did you get let go? We saw him at Al Holley's funeral and didn't ask.
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Erik and Honda reached an agreement and went there seperate ways but do still work together in a different capacity. And Dan also is one who knows his shit. I think he will do a great job. Good luck Dan.
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BobbyM 5/15/2013 3:32pm
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GuyB wrote:
Torrance, CA: American Honda proudly announces Dan Betley as the new Honda Muscle Milk team manager beginning with the opening round of the 2013 Motocross season...
Torrance, CA: American Honda proudly announces Dan Betley as the new Honda Muscle Milk team manager beginning with the opening round of the 2013 Motocross season at the Hangtown Classic in Sacramento, CA. Betley successfully filled the role during the 2013 Supercross season as he led the team to two victories and six additional podiums.

Since he began his career with Honda in 1989, Betley has held multiple positions within the race team, including his most recent as Engine Development and R&D specialist. He has worked with many high profile motocross champions such as Jeff Stanton, Jeremy McGrath and Ricky Carmichael, making him highly qualified for the role as team manager.

“Dan has been with Team Honda for many years and has played an important role in the team’s success,” explained Honda Race Team Director Ray Conway. “It seems natural for him to move up to Team Manager and he has done a great job filling in during the 2013 Supercross season.”

“I’m looking forward to transitioning into my new role,” explained Betley. “It’s a challenging job but I got a good feel for what it entails while filling in during the 2013 Supercross season and I’m grateful Honda chose me to continue as team manager. We have two extremely talented riders in Trey Canard and Justin Barcia and a great team behind them, so I am looking forward to a successful Motocross season.”

this guy kicks ass and will do fine as hondas team manager.
TripleFive 5/15/2013 3:32pm
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Anyone care to speculate as to what his management style is going to be like?
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Homey55 5/15/2013 4:50pm
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I remember him breaking his pit board at the collesium after Stanton won his c-chip...that was a funny moment. I'm sure he'll be a great manager.
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anniebertzak 5/16/2013 12:18am
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Dan has been a long time Honda person and will do just fine. He's an ex-Saddleback racer that wanted to be in the moto industry way back in the early 80's and got his start at Kawasaki Team Green spinning wrenches. Been at Honda forever and has been the factory engine development person for ages (from 2 stroke to 4 stroke). He was Stanton's mechanic, is a hard worker and a level headed person.
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The Rock 5/17/2013 11:55am
5/17/2013 11:55am Edited Date/Time 5/17/2013 11:56am
I am not surprised at this announcement but am surprised there is actually a picture of Dan smiling! All kidding aside congratulations to Dan Betley. Dan is serious as a heart attack and takes his job at Big Red very seriously. At HoT Dan was hired as the head technician (in between his first and second Honda employment runs and after a short stint as a Snap On tool salesman) and was a real asset to Honda of Troy.......ditto for Erik Kehoe.

BTW wasn't Gary Martini the acting manager? In the press release there's no mention of Martini and it sounds like Dan was the acting manager.
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DrSweden 5/17/2013 12:22pm
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So, this is the guy who's going to bring back two strokes in the game?Silly
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KlootZak 5/17/2013 12:22pm
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"Betley successfully filled the role during the 2013 Supercross season as he led the team to two victories and six additional podiums"

Hmmm ... KTM, Kawasaki and Suzuki did better but ok ...
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FastEddy 5/17/2013 12:23pm
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Awesome!
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TeamGreen 5/17/2013 2:10pm
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KlootZak wrote:
"Betley [b]successfully[/b] filled the role during the 2013 Supercross season as he led the team to[u] two victories and six additional podiums[/u]" Hmmm ... KTM, Kawasaki...
"Betley successfully filled the role during the 2013 Supercross season as he led the team to two victories and six additional podiums"

Hmmm ... KTM, Kawasaki and Suzuki did better but ok ...
Well, well, well...

Anything Positive to say...?

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