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About the Yamaha dealer also, he off course has nothing to gain by lying. Oh maybe he has, what color of bikes is he selling? What brand makes his dealership successful? Choosing between a 17 year old who never gonna make it, who only costs you money due to the sponsorship or showing the Blue Yamaha family some loyalty by dumping Brennan and telling Micheal Lindsay (not in a zoom but in a short text) I'm not pressured. Was he scared that his face would show his anger about what happen and the betray what has happened, that he choose for a text?!
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If you've watched all the interviews, nobody involved (to include Brennan) is claiming there was a problem with anything that took place during that initial interaction, or the Deegan "meeting" for that matter. In hindsight, it certainly has the look of impropriety, but nobody is claiming that anything nefarious occured.
Where this went sideways was clearly at Matt Walkers (Trainer) trailer with Donnie (Yamaha), and Chris (Sponsor). I think that's fairly obvious if you've actually sat down and watched everyone's account.
At every step of the way the adults look like children.
The kid was ADAMANT about getting that bike through ALL of it. Then his dealer takes him aside and he all of sudden drops the claim??? THiS tells you that his dealer threatened him because the dealer was threatened by Yamaha. While Donnie Luce might not have the firepower to pull Yamahas off the showroom floor, Donnie’s boss might. I’m positive Donnie had to call someone above him to let them know what was going on and get advised on how to handle it.
Also
1. Make the person claiming the bike anonymous AMA should only tell them we verified it’s a competitor you only find out when they take possession of the bike
2. Absolutely star and Yamaha had a hand in this kid rescinding his claim
3. Good job JT last night the only one with any sense and that’s hard for me to say
4. Rules are rules
5. Lost respect for pulp and keefer in the last 24 hours
6. Gained respect for ML in 24 hours
Third, there are about five or six people there who are considered officials of the event and Tim is one of them. If you think only the AMA should be involved in a claim, what do we do at the hundreds and hundreds of races that I’m not at? Because at this point I’m the only person who works for the AMA Motocross.
There are so many obvious solutions to this. Your idea *would work. Also, money changes hands, deal done, nothing more can be done. No take backs, makes everyone think about the situation before anyone does anything. For good or bad.
Too bad AMA can't come up with valid rules.
EDIT: I also think there needs to be a clause about adult vs kids/children being able to claim.
The fact that SlowOldGuy let this meeting happen with a minor and no adult supervision is perplexing to me. He stated he was in the meeting and knew his dad wasn't available. Shame.
Could be worse in my eyes. You could be one of the other parties in this that have demonstrated integrity issues with their internal bromance strongarming a minor.
Go fix your shit and own it.
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Congrats to you and your team! Seriously, I know this topic/event has been very emotionally charged, but congrats and respect for taking real action !!
You are finally making progress after a situation that forced you to do so. Also, anti blackball rules should be put into place. You smart guys figure out how to do that. EDIT - I know this is impossible, just saying. The claim rule should be accessible to all qualified with no ramifications as it is a RULE!!
Really happy to hear y’all are making changes for the better and not watering down the rules to protect the elite. Thank you for posting here and doing what you do.
The only thing up for debate as I see it is Brennan lying about the Dealer telling him the call came down from Yamaha. Or did the Dealer tell him that to put extra pressure.
Am I missing something?
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