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When your job gets outsourced to someone in another counrty making 1/10th what you do, does that mean you weren't worth what you were getting paid? Can you survive in your area on the wages made by someone doing your job in India? I'd bet you can't

Of course he's not anti Indian working class. He can work Indians 100 hours a week for peanuts. Can't do that in Austria.

Maybe you should learn a little before you type....

Yeah BAJAJ & the Indians are genius. KTM built themselves from nothing into a world beater. Take away the 2 Billion for MV Agusta combined the post-COVID drop in everything and KTM would have been fine. India needs to worry more about building toilets so 90% of its people don’t #2 in the street.

No downvote from me, I’m 100% on the side of blue collar/hands on workers. I’m pissed that KTM management got so arrogant and bloated that they lost the company. The idea that 1000 blue collar workers could bolt together enough bikes to support 5000 managers is comical.. and the management class usually makes substantially more money than the line workers..

I’d say everyone on the race team, except the team manager, is blue collar. And there aren’t many people who work harder/longer than the race team. As to the treatment of the workers, in Austria vs India? We’re (US-Euro workers) competing against almost slave labor, and it sucks. The only real advantage we have is smart, efficient management, but KTM has given that away with a top heavy management team that ran up a huge debt instead of staying smart and efficient. As always, the hands on workers get hosed. Management gets golden parachutes while the workers get pink slips...

Once the leader laps you, you ought to expect others to follow in short order. The notion that after all these years he can't anticipate this is INSANE. He was reckless and came ever so close to killing Eli's race/career by not fucking paying attention or giving a shit. I can appreciate he is a good rider, but it is always him-the truest of constants. It can't be a coincidence any longer. I mean fuck he is one of the most experienced riders out there. There is just no excuse for him to not know his place on the grid...

For the " always the same guy " situation I agree with Eli. It is past time for real world punishment. He should miss a race, and be fined. Fining them makes the rider feel some real world punishment for that occurrence. Missing a race costs them again and financially hurts the team. Which should further the point of stop being an asshole. Them is Friese. The sport would not even miss him. Vitals forum maybe, the sport no.

You could have that race in-place of the LCQ.

😆 She could not have picked a more expressive rider to do that to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRX7iWzet8

You know, I knew Hunter had too much ground too make up, but I also felt like "He's really going to push this last lap and hope for the best." Sure enough, drops his best time. Cameras could have been on Hunter and Eli that entire lap. Nah, let's cut to the guy who is by himself in 7th.

J Law. Will work for $5k / month. Will only last 3 days, so, easy on the wallet.

And hand it to the rider they’re asking for.

The strange noise you heard at Daytona was lee differ and wheel chreeestian . Everything else was normal.

Sounds like some sort of device vibrating at a high frequency, perhaps an elongated shape based on the resonance, and then a dulled/muffled tone indicating it may be stuck inside of something. Super weird. Is it only Diffy's mic picking it up? I have a hypothesis......

They didn’t name him “ Chase” for nothing. Chase Setting.

I would. He's got a 3 year contract with Kawasaki

It alway was and still is Chase. It was never the bike or team. He looked great on the Honda and KTM. He looked great on the Kawi the first few rounds. He made a couple of mistakes but he always has. Nothing new. It's always been in his head. Why would it be any different now?

Cooksy will have the video

This happened 2 1/2 months ago, and is just now coming out? I guess the industry and moto media are pretty good at keeping secrets...