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So… if that is truly a rule for amateur racing, I retract my statement on him cheating. Of course we will never know if it in fact had the factory transmission in it, but I would not doubt it was close to the same package as the Star team runs.
My son had a Suzuki support ride in 2006 and 2007 and when we raced Loretta’s in the A class, I had a $30K+ bike that we raced. I never considered losing it to a claiming rule, but I did know it existed. Chatfield got Alessi’s super mini a few years earlier, so we all knew the consequences. Suzuki would have lost their bike, but I had a lot of my money in the bike as well
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The amateur spec Star bikes are essentially GYTR bikes.
If they were running factory motors, man oh man, it just makes them look like outright liars. It would make me question everything about Brian Deegan’s whole super-dad schtick.
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That is a big risk for Star and I’d imagine that’s why Brian was so involved with the whole deal. It wasn’t about the bike, but about the disqualification that could ensue or at least tarnish his win
This might explain why they went so far in not letting the bike go??
And after he definitely wasn't coerced into dropping the legal claim, people are trying to make the kid look bad to justify actions that should have never occurred.
It's shady as hell.
Star's engines are SCI Classified (as far as amateur racing goes), but SOMEHOW ended up at Loretta Lynn's...
Y'all should be impressed, not outraged.
I cant be the only one that’s heard of zip tying a few c-notes to the spark plug wire.
IMO the problem is and always has been the AMA. They are as lazy as they are incompetent. Racers are inherently supposed t push the envelope. The sanctioning body is there to protect the integrity of the sport. Not hard to see who continually mismanages their duty.
When we were racing, there were STOCK classes and MOD classes. The limited classes seem to have replaced the STOCK classes.
I know in the stock classes, there were very few things that could not be altered/ added. Nico Izzy was protested at Whitney for illegal fork springs. LaMays dad borrowed cash from me to protest them, we were all on the same team. Suzuki was not real happy about it, but Nico’s bike was illegal. Suzuki did not offer OEM springs light enough for Nico, so they went aftermarket and Ben’s dad (RIP) knew it. Things got heated… lol
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What I find hilarious in all of this, are the people saying that they were going to buy a new Yamaha, and now they will never buy one again, no matter how good the bikes are. As if the thousands of employees, riders, testers, mechanics, sales reps, sales people, management (so on and so on) all stood in the room with whoever was there and in a concert voice berated the kid until he took back the claim. Yamaha as a whole is CLEARLY evil and should be dealt with. Lol
What a bunch of do-gooder hacks you are. Hopefully you sleep better after making that ground breaking decision.....
I think I'll go cut off my nose to spite my face.
At 9.20 mark
But it really does sound like a group of industry guys intimidated this kid, and worst of all blackmailed the kid with the threat of essentially destroying his sponsors business and livelihood.
At very least, the AMA need to do a proper investigation into what happened at LL.
If they did blackmail the kid, they are pretty shitty humans.
Lets see if they can corroborate parts of the story.
ML512 cmon now
What i did learn from that video is that Cotter did speak to the kid. That is an established fact now imo.
But it seems Cotter spoke to Brennan twice. The second time to make sure the kid wasnt going to implicate him for the claim drop.
Weege is also laying out the theory that the dealership got involved. But did so on their own accord.
Sounds like Star is going on the record with the claim that the bike wasnt a GYTR engine. Interesting.
I think Weege was being honest about what he thinks he knows. But I’d also imagine he’s gonna have a hard time getting the truth outta people. He’s “media” as far as teams are concerned.
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