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I’ve heard some of the 90s guys tell stories on podcasts.
I used to work in the industry and I remember having an Escalade rental one day and one of our executives was driving it. He launched that thing off a snow berm and I landed so hard on the armrest in the backseat that it broke off. It got returned with the wheels all scratched up and probably bent and the armrest broken. Boss was like it’s cool they can bill me.
McGrath used to rent golf carts with friends and modify the carburetor to go faster then race them around the course.
We used to head to the go cart place with tools so we could remove the governors. Honestly those things would haul if they were opened up😂😂
In reference to the “bad boy of motocross” Deegan thread, how about a Jason Lawrence timeline which includes a rental car?
August 2006: Convicted on charges of Willful Resist/Delay/Obstruction (of a Peace Officer) in Riverside, California
May 2007: Scuffle with Ryan Villopoto at Hangtown in which Villopoto delivers an uppercut to J-Law with his KX250F. Villopoto is fined $2500 and Lawrence (who the AMA called the instigator of the altercation) is fined $7500 and put on one year probation.
October 2007: At 20 years old, Lawrence is arrested and convicted of a DUI in Riverside, California.
April 2008: Jason Lawrence wins the AMA Supercross Lites West championship.
May 2008: Lawrence is taken off probation and returned to good standing with the AMA.
June 2008: Lawrence rolls his mechanic’s rental car in Wortham, Texas at the Freestone National, resulting in a suspended fine of $25,000 issued by the AMA. Side note: Josh Hill is arrested for underage drinking the same day.
July 2008: Arrested for disorderly conduct at Red Bud. The $25,000 suspended fine issued a month earlier is imposed, and he is suspended indefinitely by the AMA.
July 2008: Lawrence issues a public apology, admitting he “let a bunch of people down” and promises to “correct things and learn from my mistakes.”
November 2008: Lawrence’s suspension is lifted by the AMA.
January 2009: Lawrence is penalized for cutting the track at Anaheim I, and docked one position in final results (fourth place to fifth).
February 2009: Lawrence receives a two-round suspension due to his involvement in an altercation in the San Francisco Supercross pits involving Josh Hansen and Steve Boniface (after he sat out the night program, which a press release issued by his team said was on account of food poisoning).
March 2009: Lawrence competes in his first-ever premier class race at Daytona and notches a remarkable second-place finish after leading much of the race.
April 2009: An on-track altercation in Jacksonville involving Broc Hepler results in a $3000 and suspension from the following round from the FIM. The AMA would go on to fine him $10,000 and suspend him for the remainder of the Supercross season.
May 2009: Lawrence’s probationary status will be extended by 12 months, placing him on probation until May 3, 2010.
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Didn’t he flip a car at Washougal? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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He and Josh Hill
Edit: additionally being from Louisiana a bunch of friends and I would rent cars to go to the Houston SX and we have some stories that are disappointing to share. Transmissions, oil pans, brake pads spilt beer and the like. Sorry!
Pictures are on one of those disposable cameras that never got developed.
I e-braked a rental into a curb in Reno at the final round of arenacross, circa 2000, at about 2 a.m. -- at which I was the event director.
Good ole' Indiana Mike, who ran the track crew, informed me the next day that a good portion of the right rear wheel was sticking straight out from the bead at about 90 degrees midway through Saturday, and that I might want to hide the evidence of my misdeed. I'd made my way back to the event motel, parked it, slept maybe four hours, and driven back to the venue the next morning none the wiser. Hell, the tire still held air.
I subsequently peeled off the broken piece of the wheel with a borrowed hammer, returned said rental at the airport, and never heard another word about it from Clear Channel, whose dime it was rented on.
Not my proudest moment.
A month or so earlier, I'd been doing e-brake 360s in the snow in Worchester, Mass and nearly clipped Buddy and Denny in another rental who I'd just passed on the way to the bar.
The entirety of our crew got kicked out of said bar that night after Mad Mike Jones' signature catch a beer on his foot and kick it back up to his hand move went awry, and a mirror was smashed by the errant bottle flying though the air, spinning end over end with beer dowsing the width of the room.
Jonesey said "what? you act like someone never spilled a beer in this dive before" as the traveling circus was summarily removed by the bouncers.
Those were the days.
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