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FEATURE probably end up for Supercross when it came to his settings but I could tell earlyon that Thomas was pushing back and everything we were gearing towards he wouldn’t like it. So I said ‘let’s get a set of everything he was on and give it to him’ and my Crew Chief was like ‘that’s not going to work’. I said we both knew that…but until we let him ride it and self-eliminate that question mark then it will always be hovering there in the back of his head. I think that management style with the riders – for Jason, Zach, Christophe – when it comes to bike set-up then I don’t care if you want to run stock ProTaper handlebars or something special I just want that bike to feel like it is an extension of them and they are confident and competitive. Does it really matter if one guy likes one thing and another likes something else? If all those settings for Thomas had worked then no problems but there were some areas where he said he felt OK and some [where] it was really scary to watch. After about thirty minutes he came off the track and said ‘this won’t work…’. Technical choices can cause conflict but I am not the guy who will have his finger in your chest and his foot up your ass – I can when I need to be and there have been times in twenty years when I’ve had to – but I prefer not to. It is about allowing them to communicate and not worry what they say. It is a blank canvas so it is about painting it the way you want. So what burns-you-up then? It is just a lack of effort? The last one I had was with Jason at A2 this year. In twenty years I have only thrown my headset twice but after that race I had to walk around the stadium once before I got back to the truck because I was so mad. But I didn’t cool-off enough and ended up throwing my headset against the wall of the truck lounge and made everybody get out of the Semi apart from Jason. I said to him ‘you know a) I love you and b) I’ll never doubt your ability but I am banging my head against the wall. I’m communicating that we’ll get through this because I gotta have something from you, and what you gave tonight is totally unacceptable on any level…’. I don’t think anybody really understands the pressure that comes after winning a championship and all the obligations. And the feedback [from others] is ‘well, Dungey and Villopoto had to do the same so Jason is going to have to understand’. The thing is that Jason is not a Ryan Dungey or Ryan Villopoto and what a lot of people don’t know about him is that he doesn’t care about the money – well, he does from a future financial viewpoint for him and his family – but he’ll race just as hard for 100 bucks as he will for 100,000 and he doesn’t like the limelight. He couldn’t care less if he has 10 fans on Instagram or 700,000. It is not what ticks him. He has anxieties about having to do interviews and whatever-else because as many as he’s done – and he’s much better now compared to a few years ago when I first got him – it’s an uncomfortable setting. Jason has a group of friends and those are the ones he hangs out with, eats with and does everything with when he’s not racing. <strong>No</strong>w Zach is a guy that you can put 100% into the box. If you need any interview done then he’s the guy there with the hat and the shirt. He’s outgoing, politically correct. He’s great- Just to cut across you: it seems that riders don’t want to embrace that ‘role model’ aspect of what they do. Zach is a good example of someone who has put many parts of being a public-face and a Pro racer together… Very much so. Zach only has one problem [laughs] - and they [the older riders] all seem to have it more than the rookies - and that’s for autograph signing sessions it is like herding cats. It will be at 2.45 and at 2.44 they’ll still be sitting there in the truck in their underwear. Zach is a great mentor for the younger guys.
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