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The internet.
People saying crazy-silly shit like...
What has JGR done that's worth $300K?
Well, how about KEEPING A FACTORY LEVEL PRESENCE FOR SUZUKI for about '10 cents on the dollar"...?
J-Bone should have been fired years ago...
Wow. Talk about not knowing WTF you are talking about as you insult the living shit outta someone you do not know as you speak of thngs you don't understand.
Fact: Suzuki pulled the plug on Yoshimura's "Factory Operation" and then it slid over to JGR...for waaaaaaay less and, to be honest, NOT ENOUGH MONEY.
Fact: JGR made the bikes work and got results (for those of us that seem to remember Troll, Weston, Freddie...and so many others that got those bikes "in the show" and got results). What kind of completely ignorant fool forgets the results that Weston got...that A-Mart got...that Freddie got...and others.
Fact: JGR kept a presence in the SX and MX series at "a factory level" and some Vitards come in here and say TOTALLY STUPID SHIT about the guys that pulled it off.
Fact: it was the passion and committment by J-Bone and a family that he loves and loves him that kept this team "afloat" these last few years and all some of you can do is be a complete ass holes towards him...towards them.
Papa Joe and the family have put a lot of responsibility and faith in Jeremy.
From where I'm standing? He's got a lot to be proud of.
J Bone delivered.
A shout out to those of you that know this and have shared your sadness in regards to the loss of an amazing team, a productive operation...and amazing group of "really good people".
For the nay-sayers:
Where's "Factory Yamaha" these days?
Where's FC-Geico Honda these days?
One constant through it all was the team manager.
He’s a great guy by all accounts. No one is saying anything is his fault. The results were not happening under him and he had 10+ years to figure it out. If you are happy with the same results year after year then I guess keep doing the same thing.
Success sometimes comes from addition by subtraction. He has been the one constant on that team. Leading the entire thing start to finish. In a results oriented business they needed to make a change 5 years ago.
They didn’t. The results stayed exactly the same. And now the team is folding.
Maybe a change would have done nothing. Maybe they have worse results. But you never know until you try. Maybe with a new manager they get a fresh perspective and things click. Well we will never know....
He’s a good dude. But the results haven’t been there with the money they have invested. That’s not to say they haven’t had some wins here and there. But on par with the money invested they have not performed nearly to the level they or anyone would expect of a fully funded Gibbs racing team.
You can’t argue that no matter how much you might love the guy.
Pit Row
The point here is that despite all the criticism of this program, some riders had career best years (Peick, Grant) and many others had equivalent results at least.
Actually Reedy may have been JGR’s last 450 SX podium? And maybe even their last 450 MX holeshot???
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