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To me it’s beginning to appear that the innocent bystander engine builder wasn’t honest either….
End of the day as JT said that the rule is flawed if everybody is afraid to use the rule so what good is the rule? This is an industry issue that I don’t know how it gets fixed…
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I also hate how Steve gets upset at people getting upset and ranting about stuff when he literally has a segment on his show called the RaceTech Rant.
This is so transparent.
Steve has been operating off being in the in crowd for years now. Any interview he ever does he has shit questions and is honestly a terrible journalist. He just has roots in the sport.
The “real” interview would be to see what Rita thinks about how it was handled.
Pulp Puppet Show.
Move on.
Donnie agreed to get him two motors and that he could go down to the Goat farm and ride a factory bike, then Donnie shook his dad’s hand. And now they’ve been ghosted by Donnie?
Pit Row
And it was effective. Yamaha has now put the word out that if you claim, you will be blackballed. They have directly interfered with the AMA officiating to make the claim rule ineffective. So now they and the other factories can do whatever they want.
Maybe I'm wrong, but Luce struck me as sincere in saying he was going to wangle some Yamaha help for Brennan, crate motors or whatever.
It first seemed strange Luce wouldn't know offhand who Brennan was if the kid won 450C in his first time at LL's, last year. But Luce staying another week or two to work more races pointed up how many riders he has to deal with, and how many have probably been coming for years and been impact players, which would crowd out a grown newbie's win last year.
Was Brennan lying about putting a claim in and not getting the bike?
Because that’s all that matters.
The kid might have done it as an FU to the Deegans if there was bad blood. He’s allowed too tho, so whatever.
The engine builder probably wanted to see inside so would likely have supported it. YouTube views, business etc
Sounds like indeed the dealer might have freaked out unnecessarily so as he has been described as a serious dude.
Walker seems to have given some advice about being potentially black balled, which sounds like it tracks with his career experiences.
Yamaha officially probably ain’t aware of much at the time but Lucce or whatever his name is would probably rather have avoided it as would Star.
At no time should a minor (assumably a minor?) be interrogated or questioned or even alone with a race official or the Deegans, that audience should not have been granted at all. Seems a serious lapse of judgement by Cotter there, that’s my main issue with it all.
I do think that last point was under-described on the show - but Steve/JT don’t have kids and even tho he said he’d be there, Keefer’s parenting style seems more like he expects his boy to own his shit. Either way, you ain’t talking to my kid without me there, because whether you think it or not, that’s threatening by nature of seniority.
I don’t think Matthes was licking blue balls so to speak - his line about dragging it through the mud seemed more about the whole thing, after the event, interviews etc. Either way, it’s better that he is interviewing or getting each take than just ranting as has been done elsewhere.
And bottom line the kid should have the bike. The rule should be in place and contrary to what some have said, I think it makes sense the value is low because isn’t that more of a deterrent?
It’s was ultimately he and his dads decision to not have the bike in their possession right now.
I could be wrong.
However, for the life of me I do not see Matthes throwing MX-Sports or Yamaha under the bus over claimgate.
He probably tried to do some damage control.
I'd assume he would have their backs considering those companies were his livelihood for quite a while(I think most folks would if in the same boat). After his factory wrenching career for Yamaha he went to work for DC/Racer-X. He even did some live pit reporting during the old MX nationals audio only webcasts for Mx-Sports etc.
I'm sure most in the sport know his history before the whole pulp thing became very successful.
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