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Just out of curiosity what sort of entourage dose the Deegan clan travel with? I’m guessing mum,dad,brother sister at a minimum.
USA team is always well supported and I guess the Deegan camp would expect to take as many more as well?
You would say that because you are too stupid to understand that it is a fund raising issue in the US...my opinion has nothing to do with Deegan and everything to do with the failure of the MX industry and its ridiculous failure at raising money through RaiseIt4USA....which was started to literally keep this from happening....I recommend you worry about the issues of your own C team...
So if a person waves the American flag and they, under their own choice, decides not to enlist in the military to serve and represent their country, are they hypocrites as well?
It's not about Deegan,it's about american Yamaha and Honda boycotting fim races maybe?
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Do you ever get tired of acting like a douchebag?
You think you hate the Deegan's, but you actually hate yourself. You need help.
"if Honda wants what's best for the team and to come out swinging in 2027 they really should cut the 3 SMX races and just attend MXDN."
Assuming you're actually trying to be "serious," where did you come up with this? The team exists to run the while SMX series - A1 to the end of the SMX playoffs. They are no more optional rounds than any other SX or MX round.
Our C team will be there with the 1, 2 and 3 jerseys - they’ll be fine.
BTW the Lawrences haven’t ridden HRC bikes at the Paris SX or Aus SX for the last three years.
Why can't I complain to them and the team that makes shit up when their boy decides he doesn't want to go?
Not much to discuss when people are honest, up front, don't send mixed messages, back out at the 11th hour, make other people cover for them, etc, etc, etc......
That plus.. didn't they win the last two years straight??? It's not like they weaseled their way out every single time they were asked to race for their home country like cringe lord has...
They get paid for that though
It’s never an issue for any other country except USA. These smaller countries turn up year on year no matter where in the world it is. The AMA are never short of money either!
So will ours but that doesn't do anything to fix the problems that face the MXDN and the US teams inability to raise the funds necessary....not sure why you're bringing the Lawrences into a Team USA funding issue...but whatever..
Deegan's whole image and online persona is literally crumbling like a house of cards - RIP Jett and he gets made a mockery of this summer by Jett whipping his ass every week and then Captain USA wants money to turn up for his country. Only idiots with low IQ would be a fan of this kid.
You earlier commented that Star wouldn’t let Deegan race a non-Star bike. Just saying that other top level riders have done it.
The bikes that the Lawrence's rode were maintained and built by Honda USA they might not have been full works bikes but they were under the control of the US team....they didn't use the bikes of another Honda team....apples and oranges...and I believe it was just last year that they didn't have their race bikes shipped over.
The smoke and mirrors from Star and Deegan is stupid. Bummer that Deegan doesn’t want to go.
His first will probably be whenever it’s back on US soil.
I’ll be excited to see him whenever he does, but the constant excuse making is tiring.
Crazy stat, Jetts girlfriend has the same amount of 450 moto wins, 450 laps led and MXoN appearances as Deegs the Temu patriot. Pretty funny considering he was mocking her pre season.
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The team exists to win the AMA supercross and motocross championships. SMX? I haven't seen the Lawrence contracts nor have you. I'm sure at contract time either Hunter or Jett could have decided they would prefer to ride the MXDN rather than the 3 SMX races. When they negotiated their contracts they knew what races they would be running. They chose to ride SMX rather than SMX and MXDN or just MXDN. I don't believe anyone on this board is nieve enough to not understand why they made the choice they did. That's the choice I would have made as well. How about the Lawrence's just admit that SMX is more important to them than MXDN instead of pretending like the schedule is too grueling and they need a break and there are no other options. Don't race SMX problem solved. This whole thing reminds me of something Deegan would pull.
Damn that's funny!
Rotaholic just won this whole thread with Kay De Wolf a close 2nd. RIP Deegan.
That's because all America cares about is money and fame. Those bad bad Americans don't care at all about other people. Most selfish country on the planet. All they want to do is wave their flag.
I just wrote this because I wanted to help you better express what you really believe. How'd I do?
You seem to be under informed about the relationship of AMA Pro Racing and the SMX series. They are one and the same.
Seems like it's an issue for Australia, and Japan, and Germany, and . . .
Since the early 2000,s top riders contracts hit aprox a mil. Most of them refused to go. It’s not 86 or 96 anymore when we had riders to challenge & a great chance to win. We,d be lucky to be 7th over all this yr. You might want to pick another race to win . Because we won’t win this 1 again until we get a better system like in Europe to develop riders. Phil is not racing the vmdx because it’s too serious & the pressure. He raced LL because of the bonuses . And that’s peanut compared to smx money.
Not really. They award a supercross champion and a motocross champion with separate titles. They also award an SMX title. Riders during contract time can negotiate what races they will compete in. Especially Jett and Hunter who are such a big draw, they can almost write their own contract. You don't seem to be fully up to speed on how sports contracts work.
No matter how many times that picture is posted it will not become less creepy, or funny, or cool, or . . . There has to be a better way to claim ownership over someone in a sporting context than mounting up on him from behind while he is in a dress with bunny ears? Maybe KDW is Herr Wolf?
things that are bizarre about this whole situation:
MXoN promoters makes unbelieveable, sell-out supercross level money on this event, does not pay expense money for what could be his biggest draw, and yet deegan gets called greedy.
This could be changed very simply by requiring a percentage of profits from this year to go into a fund to be split up for teams traveling the furthest. Maybe a formula that seeds the teams plus pays based on distance traveled.
when team USA started going over to race the MX des Nations and trophy des nations it was the most prestigious event in the world, second was the MX Gps.
Laporte and Lackey winning world championships in '82 was huge. What magoo did with 4 straight moto wins blew it away.
Team USA won 13 straight years.
in that time supercross evolved to become the most sought after title. Bayle, Vullemin (sp?), Roncoda, Albertyn, Pichon, and Reed all left the GPs to come race here.
MXoN lost it's status as the most prestigious title in MX. Racers came here to test themselves against the best, and they won.
2 out the 3 last times usa hosted the MXoN we got beat.
and now look at the current SMX championship.
A german won the Supercross title.
an Australian will win 450MX.
a Rookie from New Zealand may very well be on his way to the 250MX title.
We don't have to go to europe to race the world's best.
They come here, and they beat us.
Maybe we should start winning here again before we put so much weight on how we do in the MXoN.
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