Oscar Wirdeman leaving roczen

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Edited Date/Time 9/15/2019 10:31pm
So what is Oscars new job at Kawi now that he left Roczen?

And who is roczens new mechanic
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Red Crawford 9/9/2019 2:22pm
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This slipped out on Vital last week and Matthes summarily shut it down.
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Red Crawford wrote:
This slipped out on Vital last week and Matthes summarily shut it down.
By shut it down, you mean confirmed it? Steve’s Instagram story said he’s going to Kawi for less travel and closer to home.
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Honestly don't blame him if he lives in OC or North SD. Kawi is a much shorter commute. My company has an OC office and a Torrance office near Honda and anytime I go to Torrance I dread it like hell.
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Red Crawford 9/9/2019 2:28pm
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Red Crawford wrote:
This slipped out on Vital last week and Matthes summarily shut it down.
MxKing809 wrote:
By shut it down, you mean confirmed it? Steve’s Instagram story said he’s going to Kawi for less travel and closer to home.
Different instance. Blair, I believe said something along the lines of "so, what's this I hear about Oscar?" Steve replied, "no man---", and they moved on.

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TeamGreen 9/9/2019 3:13pm
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Red Crawford wrote:
This slipped out on Vital last week and Matthes summarily shut it down.
MxKing809 wrote:
By shut it down, you mean confirmed it? Steve’s Instagram story said he’s going to Kawi for less travel and closer to home.
Red Crawford wrote:
Different instance. Blair, I believe said something along the lines of "so, what's this I hear about Oscar?" Steve replied, "no man---", and they moved on.

Ok, that's just funny.

I thought they talked about EVERYTHING that "No-one-else" talks about?

Laughing

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Oscar posted a pic on his IG of his name on a kawi name tag
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Red Crawford 9/9/2019 3:18pm
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TeamGreen wrote:
Ok, that's just funny.

I thought they talked about EVERYTHING that "No-one-else" talks about?

Laughing

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colvin227 wrote:
Oscar posted a pic on his IG of his name on a kawi name tag
Yup, there is a french site saying ex mechanic for KR and officially new mechanic for Kawasaki

I thought Oscar and KR got on really well so interesting that Oscar has moved (presumably to Eli), perhaps he had an offer he couldn't refuse
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colvin227 9/9/2019 3:56pm
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colvin227 wrote:
Oscar posted a pic on his IG of his name on a kawi name tag
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Yup, there is a french site saying ex mechanic for KR and officially new mechanic for Kawasaki I thought Oscar and KR got on really well...
Yup, there is a french site saying ex mechanic for KR and officially new mechanic for Kawasaki

I thought Oscar and KR got on really well so interesting that Oscar has moved (presumably to Eli), perhaps he had an offer he couldn't refuse
No I don’t think so, If anything he would work for AC. I don’t see Krantz and Eli splitting up after all the success they have shared and Krantz has been with Eli his whole pro career. Or Oscar got a backstop job with kawi like engine guy or something, guess we’ll find out. Definitely odd cause I though he was definitely “Kenny’s guy” so it was strange to see the switch.
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I believe Oscar will be the crew chief for AC. In that role, it means over 50 more days a year at home, rather than staying after races for build days, or flying in early. He was also traveling from the Carlsbad area to Torrance for work...which was a crazy amount of time on the road during the week. His commute will be considerably shorter now. With family at home, it makes a lot of sense for him.
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colvin227 wrote:
Oscar posted a pic on his IG of his name on a kawi name tag
kiwifan wrote:
Yup, there is a french site saying ex mechanic for KR and officially new mechanic for Kawasaki I thought Oscar and KR got on really well...
Yup, there is a french site saying ex mechanic for KR and officially new mechanic for Kawasaki

I thought Oscar and KR got on really well so interesting that Oscar has moved (presumably to Eli), perhaps he had an offer he couldn't refuse
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No I don’t think so, If anything he would work for AC. I don’t see Krantz and Eli splitting up after all the success they have...
No I don’t think so, If anything he would work for AC. I don’t see Krantz and Eli splitting up after all the success they have shared and Krantz has been with Eli his whole pro career. Or Oscar got a backstop job with kawi like engine guy or something, guess we’ll find out. Definitely odd cause I though he was definitely “Kenny’s guy” so it was strange to see the switch.
Pro MX fan boy tip: If you want to know wtf is going on in this sport; put Matthes' Twitter in your favorite places....

I hear that Jordon, Seely's mechanic this year, will move over to work for 94. https://t.co/VohzTHOGvY

— Steve Matthes (@pulpmx) September 6, 2019
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TeamGreen 9/9/2019 5:14pm
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TeamGreen wrote:
Ok, that's just funny.

I thought they talked about EVERYTHING that "No-one-else" talks about?

Laughing

(This comment posted for Jason Anderson)
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C130 rolling down the strip!

Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip!

We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door!

We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!
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GuyB wrote:
I believe Oscar will be the crew chief for AC. In that role, it means over 50 more days a year at home, rather than staying...
I believe Oscar will be the crew chief for AC. In that role, it means over 50 more days a year at home, rather than staying after races for build days, or flying in early. He was also traveling from the Carlsbad area to Torrance for work...which was a crazy amount of time on the road during the week. His commute will be considerably shorter now. With family at home, it makes a lot of sense for him.
Ah makes sense, bummer for KR tho.
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Kenny and AC ride together a lot. There's every chance this move has been discussed for some time between all parties involved, and given the friendship between the pair (or all three of them), its not really that big of a deal.

My assumption would be that its been talked about between the 3 of them for some time, Kenny gets that Oscar is over the travel, understands that there's a "better" opportunity to work with good friend AC closer to home, so its a no brainer and not as big news as it sounds.
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Wade221 9/9/2019 5:47pm
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C130 rolling down the strip! Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip! We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door! We gonna jump right...
C130 rolling down the strip!

Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip!

We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door!

We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!
You’re all right, Team Green! 👍🏻
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TeamGreen wrote:
C130 rolling down the strip! Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip! We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door! We gonna jump right...
C130 rolling down the strip!

Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip!

We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door!

We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!
Put that on repeat for every run for years in the military and you’ll want to forget the parachute when you jump out lol
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Wade221 9/9/2019 6:25pm
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Put that on repeat for every run for years in the military and you’ll want to forget the parachute when you jump out lol
By the end of the run, that C130 did about 8-10 passes over Division!
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Hoks wrote:
Put that on repeat for every run for years in the military and you’ll want to forget the parachute when you jump out lol
Wade221 wrote:
By the end of the run, that C130 did about 8-10 passes over Division!
Why I posted that: I got to spend A LOT of time with various bad-asses from all the services...and ya get to know some of these guys and gals and how crazy they are by the things they "sorta" say &, more so, the things they don't say; also, by the things they tell ya with a VERY STRAIGHT FACE as ya leave the Green Zone...

So, I got the feeling "Red" might be one of those "Big Red One with a Parachute" type bad asses that sewed his Ranger tab on with white thread.

As such...the song came to mind.

Myself? I'm a PFC. Yup, Proud F'ing Civilian that got to spend his professional youth making good weapons systems (& weapons delivery systems) better. Much, much...much...better. Comm's, Data & Intel, too. Yup. I'm more 'Murica than a Wyoming rancher with a diesel pick-up. I love this shit and Red's sig-line spoke to me.
If that a makes me some kinda Digitial-Defense-Dork?
COOL!
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GuyB wrote:
I believe Oscar will be the crew chief for AC. In that role, it means over 50 more days a year at home, rather than staying...
I believe Oscar will be the crew chief for AC. In that role, it means over 50 more days a year at home, rather than staying after races for build days, or flying in early. He was also traveling from the Carlsbad area to Torrance for work...which was a crazy amount of time on the road during the week. His commute will be considerably shorter now. With family at home, it makes a lot of sense for him.
Carlsbad to east Irvine during rush hour aint a picnic either...
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Carlsbad to east Irvine during rush hour aint a picnic either...
Nope...but it beats tripling that.
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"East Irvine"
What the hell is that?
Tustin?
Lake Forest?
As a Sourh County kinda guy, I'm calling it:
Lake Forest.
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"East Irvine"
What the hell is that?
Tustin?
Lake Forest?
As a Sourh County kinda guy, I'm calling it:
Lake Forest.
You know, they grow up hard on the streets of Irvine! All those Tesla's and shit.... Lake Forrest tryna lean in on that street cred.
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Is Ken done?
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oldblood wrote:
Is Ken done?
Yep, done. Done signing a 3 year contract extension.
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oldblood 9/9/2019 10:44pm
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The commute time reason, I'm not buying. Maybe time for a change? You are Ken Roczen's mechanic, you quit because you don't like the commute.
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oldblood 9/9/2019 11:11pm
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I quit! You can change your own damned piston and rings from now on! This commute sucks!

Yeah, I guess I could see that.
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Adam89 9/10/2019 12:51am
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Maybe ACs new mechanic seeing they know each other well and it looks like it might be less travelling for him?
Dirtdemon 9/10/2019 4:34am
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Oscar better watch kawis front brake
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quadzrulebro 9/10/2019 5:56am
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To all of you who doubt his reasoning, try commuting from San Diego county to Torrance and let me know how that works out for you. I suppose if he was cashing in on the win bonuses that everyone predicted he would be 3 years ago, he could either fly back and forth to work or afford a home on the west side of LA, but it hasn’t exactly worked out that way. I don’t blame him a bit. He has a family that he wants to see occasionally, and is responsible to house in a safe environment
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oldblood wrote:
I quit! You can change your own damned piston and rings from now on! This commute sucks!

Yeah, I guess I could see that.
Ken’s long time mechanic before that quit the first year after they moved to RCH together so he could go back to KTM to be an engine guy. Better hours, more family time and way less travel.

In Oscar’s case, as GuyB stated, less hours away from home and a much shorter drive (we’re talking probably 2 hours less driving every single day). A bump up in position from mechanic to crew chief.

While working for one of the top guys has to be cool, it’s not everything in life, family definitely rates higher.
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