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Clément Desalle and Gautier Paulin to America.
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Appears Honda had a lot pride in there brand back in the day when offering contracts. With the signing of KR seems like they finally got the message.
Great thread!!!!
Do you have anything to back this up?
That's one of those stories you hear about and watched from the sidelines (without social media) and still can't believe. Poster boy for Fox ends up being forced to switch gear brands, ends up with JT and Thor to finish out his career.
Didn't Fox shoot their catalog photos with RJ and then this all went down and they had to scramble? I know there are some photos of RJ in the blue/pink/zebra gear that Bradshaw (and later Stewart) made famous but he switched before the season.
Those Suzuki’s were junk.
Rode Kawi all his 250 days to that point and came back from a big injury.
A big shoulda woulda coulda if he got that Factory Kawi 450 ride.
There where rumors of money but there also was a interview of Pourcel at that time he said he never asked a big price and Villo would not be team mates with him..
Or is this also something the outside world would never get the know?
Got me wondering again seeing his name and photo in this thread.
So what’s the truth?
Pit Row
It was the end of 2010, RV took a pay cut because he had two lack luster seasons and Chris came in wanting more than RV was making on his previous contract. They kept negotiating, it got late and Weimar told him he’d race for the price in their budget, it was done.
The Japanese wanted Chris and he knew it and ended up over playing his hand.
The last part of the 08 outdoor season, James stopped riding a Kawasaki during the week and was staying near Bakersfield supercross testing with L&M on a Yamaha at a secret track.
Stupid and dumb move from Chris and good for Kawi cuz it turned around really good with RV.
Really would have liked to see Chris on that bike with a full prep that time. After that loss he never reached his potentially again.
Looking back, that is so gnarly. Imagine Eli being unhappy with kawi and riding a different bike during the week. Wild.
Garden tool flaming KTM team in 2000.
A.M. Leonard with Terlecki and Oehlof were a one season satellite team that was supposed to switch to Suzuki in 2001 to be the official Suzuki 125cc team. They even told KTM to kick rocks. In October of 2000 Suzuki bailed during negotiations, left the team high and dry, and just like that another satellite team evaporated into nothingness.
I had a team poster from Millville with Oehlof's signature.
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