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or not riding the nats? sounds like horseshit to me...no not that he's riding but that he has no ride or he's getting the funds together blah blah blah.
Team Yamaha has a scooter and a slot, do they not with Langston out again?
There's the solution right in front of the their faces. That is if James WANTS to race for a title and without the 2 million bucks to give it a go.
I can see not racing if it's out of yer pocket but i can't see not wanting to race if there's hardly no money in it. Riding scooters is still the greatest thing in the world to even do for free....is it not?
Has the love of money denigrated the sport at this point....bummer.
Team Yamaha has a scooter and a slot, do they not with Langston out again?
There's the solution right in front of the their faces. That is if James WANTS to race for a title and without the 2 million bucks to give it a go.
I can see not racing if it's out of yer pocket but i can't see not wanting to race if there's hardly no money in it. Riding scooters is still the greatest thing in the world to even do for free....is it not?
Has the love of money denigrated the sport at this point....bummer.
Point being: Let the kid do what he wants to do. Bunch of freaking cry babies.
The Shop
By the way, most riders contracts will say they arent allowed to race for a different team or do any other racing without permission. Do you guys think L&M wants to see James go out and risk a bad injury that could end his career cause he decided to fund his own team or ride for another team in the nationals..... highly doubt it.
crybaby?...yer the fucking dork that is driving the wambulance
choosing to not defend his FIRST and ONLY Big bike Motocross title. Windham is 31 years old and past his prime, Chad doesn't stop racing he goes to his HOME country and puts on races. I think most contracts say whatever the rider is willing to negotiate. If
JS was willing to give up riding the Nationals then it was his decision. James is without
a doubt "the fastest man alive on a motorcycle", but if that is all he wants to be known as
then great. I'll miss watching him ride outdoors, and yes its his decision. There is the GOAT=RC the KING=MC ????=JS
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Hopefully MX sports and crew will get the outdoor series built up to be the series all the factories and sponsors want to win and no one would even consider not racing it.
And no there isn't a free bike in the Yami tent, Langston hasn't been a factory rider since his deal expired. He was shopping around for a bike and team before he tweaked the knee. On top of that James' contract is not just SX only. He's contracted to run the x-games, US Open, MXoN, and selected outdoor events be they here or Europe. That's a full we own you for a year and you'll do what we want contract.
Pit Row
....Moto is all about taking down the champs and crushing the younger hopefuls.
James has done neither and here is his chance......
Speaking of outdoors, when we started the L&M team at the end of 2006 the outdoor series didn’t have the greatest TV package as a whole, the events have been raced a venues that needed to be upgraded (some venues, not all), the race day schedule had been the same since I can remember and I started racing professional in 1984 and needed some improvements. In short, the exposure was less than Supercross and we/L&M felt we would be better off by concentrating on the Supercross Championship and putting 100% into it and looking at other one off, high exposure events that would bring attention to our rider’s, are team, our sponsors and try to help build the sport of motorcycle racing. But all this seems to be changing for outdoors or trying to be improved in 2009 by the outdoor series promoter, MX Sport. They are taking a hard look at the venues, making short term improvements and saying long term improvements and/or venues changes are in the future, working on and creating a much improved television package and even changing the race day schedule to help the sport fit television better. Yes, all these are coming in 2009, but still unproven. Time will tell if the outdoor series will be better, actually in the next 4 months we will see what comes of all these changes and if the outdoor series will match what is being done in Supercross and the X-Games.
If MX Sport brings the outdoor series to the level it is trying to reach and all the changes brings the outdoor series to the level of Supercross (and we are hope they succeed) I’m not saying L&M wouldn’t revisit our decision to be a “Supercross only team”. It wouldn’t be very business smart to give up all that exposure, but only time will tell.
There are some very inventive and needed changes happening in the 2009 outdoor motocross series. All of us will be watching their progress closely and I know they will learn on the fly, but I’m glad there are people that broke the cookie cutter mold that we have seen over and over these past 30 plus years that brought the outdoor series to a position where they knew change was needed to grow and they stepped up and took control. Good for you and thank you. Support the outdoor motocross series as a race fan and get your friends to support it also (if they aren’t already) and motorcycle racing might make another leap forward. In this weak economy we had some very surprisingly strong attendance records for the Supercross series and I think the reason was the great battle we were treated to for the Championship and I hope we see the same type of racing go on in the motocross series, but let me tell you, if L&M was committed to do motocross in 2009 we would have had to take our focus off of Supercross halfway through that series and start thinking about, building parts and testing for motocross and we might not have won the 2009 Supercross Championship. I think you can see a little of what I’m talking about if you look at the final Supercross Championship points stands. There are two Supercross only rider and those two guys were 4 points apart and the end of 17 rounds and the third place rider was 107 points behind and he was the first Supercross/Motocross rider and the points were pretty close from there on back. Like I said in the beginning “if your focus is narrowed, the rider and the team have only one goal it will show at the end of the day and the end of the series”. The only proof we have of that are race wins and championship, but that enough proof, I think. For us it was Supercross, but I can imagine a team and/or rider could do the same in the outdoor series/motocross.
Have a great day and thanks for listening and sorry if I rambled on a bit.
Oh yea, James Stewart is one bad dude. 2009 SUPERCROSS CHAMPION!!!!!
Personally, I would want my rider/s to race both series, but if it came down to dollars and cents, and we could only do ourselves justice in one series, obviously it would have to be SX.
Again, thanks for the explanation and congratulations to you, James and the team for a fantastic championship win.
His goal is McGraths 72 wins, and he can get that. He can't beat RC's outdoor records.
Stewart has nothing to prove outdoors against the current competition. -However, he will probably show up occationally B* slap everyone just to keep the "Villopoto could beat him outdoors" crowd from becoming to loud.
Last point- If you made $10 million for 4 months work, would $12 million for 8 months work and risk of injury sound good to you? Can't blame him.
Apparantley now there is only one.
Wasn't Windham Supercross only as well until recently?
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