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I don't care what anyone says, when Barcia says "This year" it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard from a racer.

Gotta love a poll concerning bias only offering biased options.

Neither 1 or 2, but not terrible.

Who cares what the motive was. The kids a competitor. Hannah and Howerton hated each other. Doesn’t matter. Stick to the facts. The facts show he made the claim by the book and then was “persuaded” by adults with power over his future to drop the claim.

Numb nuts. That’s the WHOLE POINT of the rule. Don’t bring a fully modded out race bike to an amateur race. It’s intended to keep a level playing field so that no racer has an unfair advantage of a bike that most of the competition can’t afford. It’s amateur racing not pro.

ML, you have taken Vital as a media to a whole different level. The most ambitious and transparent reporting in the moto industry in 2022. Right now you’re clear of your peers at other media outlets. Keep it up.

So, Matt Walker trains the son of Brennan's sponsor dealership's owner (who reps Yamaha bikes).......And Matt Walker was hob knobbing with Donnie Luce from Yamaha when they pulled Brennan into their pit to chastise him over his claim decision, in which Walker went on to go batshit crazy and threaten to kick the engine builders ass.....and then the sponsor dealer's owner pulls Brennan's dad into a one on one discussion at the same time as the Walker bat shit crazy rant, then Brennan's dad has some miraculous epiphany then tells Brennan to just drop it - which he then does...

"Donnie says: "Why are you doing this? There's parts inside that motor you can't buy." Question asked and answered.

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So let me get this straight, kid claims a bike then after some back and forth the claim is dropped. Then the kid leaves his trainer after the trainer confronts him about the claim and the kid also loses his Yamaha sponsor. But we’re suppose to believe there was zero pressure from Yamaha or his trainer?! What am I missing?

Heres a question to dealership guy, Why do you pull bikes from Brennan if theres no pressure from anyone?

Hall of fame worthy meme.

Sounds like the dealer has a son racing at Lorettas he prob didn’t like the look of a rider he sponsors claiming a factory bike from yamaha and thought be a badlook for his dealership and Yamaha would be upset and sounds like they were very upset . If you listen to the Cooksey interview the dealer came at the father and son hard

Oh ya, and Fuck Matt Walker*

Gotta share this in all the threads on this topic.... lol

But why??? Why would his dealer sponsor care at all about this??? Brennan is buying a near factory race bike while following the rules 100%. The why is the issue... It looks like the why is a threat/pressure from Yamaha. No other reason for the dealer to lose his mind over this unless he thought he might lose his franchise.

Too priceless not to share in all these threads.

But the engine builder also says he wasn't in the room with Brennan Schofield, Brian Deegan, and Cotter when the objectionable portion of Cotter's involvement occured. He also confirmed it was "At least 20-25 min", pretty close to what Brennan stated, and a far cry from what DC did.