Press day insight from Indianapolis

Some really interesting stuff from press day today!

- Eli considered KTM briefly before he moved across to Yamaha.

- Cooper is back on a base setting the team took him away from.

- Aaron is on a spring fork, no longer air, to help his rear problem.

More, too, and a ton of MXGP talk (forgive me for that but I'm excited).


 

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Oldstyle
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3/6/2026 1:15pm

Great stuff! I like how Jade went back and picked up part of Tomac’s tooth to get it bonded 😂

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mxbmx
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3/6/2026 1:18pm

I'm all for Hunter getting this title but man, Eli is looking and sounding scary confident.

It also seems like he's baffled/surprised by Lew's actual questions and queries, instead of the same formulaic dribble from most of the press. 

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3/6/2026 2:49pm

Mechanic of the year right there. He refuses to have his rider with anything less than 100% of his effort. 

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miikex2
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3/6/2026 3:34pm

it’s funny to watch Hunter all but refuse to give ANY real information on the setup stuff week in and week out 😂

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3/6/2026 3:54pm
miikex2 wrote:

it’s funny to watch Hunter all but refuse to give ANY real information on the setup stuff week in and week out 😂

If I was running my little brother's setup I wouldn't admit it either 😂 

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3/6/2026 4:00pm Edited Date/Time 3/6/2026 4:01pm

Loved Webb’s interview. No beating around the bush, just honesty.

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3/6/2026 4:40pm
miikex2 wrote:

it’s funny to watch Hunter all but refuse to give ANY real information on the setup stuff week in and week out 😂

If I was running my little brother's setup I wouldn't admit it either 😂 

Jett runs Hunters setup* I have a feeling all jett knows how to do is twist the throttle, and leaves the testing to Hunter. 😂

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3/6/2026 5:25pm
miikex2 wrote:

it’s funny to watch Hunter all but refuse to give ANY real information on the setup stuff week in and week out 😂

I don’t know…my bike has been running so much better since I switched over to left handed tools. Probably helps that I’m also left handed. I never even knew they existed before he dropped that bomb. 

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3/6/2026 5:32pm

Eli crash during press day at 1:52. Not really sure how he got so sideways and looks like he landed easy, but crazy how these guys are always just a small mistake away from injury. Obviously we saw how it can happen even on Press Day with Forkner earlier this year. 😕

 

https://youtu.be/94nmj1SdOj8?si=rlAKaeoxbwTBsP_T

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3/6/2026 6:14pm

Lewis, you need to do a deep, deep dive and see if Ryan D has had any interaction with Eli. I saw that he is around and I’m sure he talks to his brother when he is. 

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