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It's not rocket surgery, especially if you have any experience in business. In advertising it's not uncommon to lose clients due to them changing direction under a new management team.
Honestly, what the whole scenario sounds like is just Dungey out trying to find sponsors to start a race team and also trying to source equipment for said team. I'm starting to think that him racing again is just somebody running off half-cocked with a nugget of truth and using that to spin off some wild speculation about him returning to racing.
Now, I have not heard "fox in trouble". Clearly there was a buyout of most of the family's share of the company several years ago. I suspect the father wanted some $ from the business to enjoy his life. Now, what happens when a company is purchased (the majority) the control is lost and the bean counters show up. Especially true when who purchased that company is a private equity company (Altamont Capital). Typically the bean counters totally screw up a company up... and a private equity company is full of bean counters looking to "SQUEEZE" the $ out of company operations. They forget - or don't know how to - focus on cool products that the customers like. Both have to be looked at... They just look at the numbers. I suspect Pete Fox, who looks like a product focused guy to me, didn't like what he was seeing. So, the product starts to suffer.... quality goes down to make a buck for the bean counters. There is a video on the Dirt Bike Channel you can see on Youtube talking about his experience with quality on the Fox products.
Now, Pete will most likely focus on higher end products in the segment. And he has rider and agent contacts to get that product exposed quickly. He's also got distribution and mfg contacts. So, will be interesting to see what he does.
I suspect the quality will be high.
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Remember when Villopoto retired and then came back the next year to crash his brains out at monster cup? I'm not sure that once you stop performing at the highest level, that you can just get it back again...
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Nope, don't remember that one. Are you suggesting that Villopoto raced MEC in 2016?
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