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By Steve Matthes<br />
“That’s crazy how my season<br />
goes so far. I can do one weekend<br />
1-1 and the next one fourth<br />
overall. That sucks, but it’s the<br />
way it is. I need to work on that.<br />
For me today it was a really good<br />
day. I think in the second moto<br />
we did a crazy show with Adam.<br />
It was good I think for the fans<br />
and everybody who was watching.”<br />
Earlier this year I sat down with<br />
Ferrandis who told me his slow<br />
start to the 250MX nationals was<br />
a direct correlation to his clinching<br />
the 250SX title and how that<br />
was his dream and to have only<br />
one week to ramp everything<br />
back up to get ready for outdoors<br />
was a bit much. When you<br />
ask Dylan a question, you better<br />
be ready for a real honest answer.<br />
Well, he’s been getting better<br />
since that chat and he’s now<br />
making another championship<br />
push against that same rider.<br />
-The outdoors is starting to<br />
become a bit of a series of attrition<br />
at this point. We’ve had<br />
good luck with health for the<br />
most part but this past week saw<br />
KTM’s Blake Baggett be out for<br />
the year (probably) with a virus<br />
which would explain most of his<br />
results this season and GEICO<br />
Honda’s Hunter Lawrence had a<br />
part fail on his bike while testing<br />
and broke his collarbone. Two<br />
moto winners out for the year<br />
and as always, this is a reminder<br />
that motocross is dangerous.<br />
- Speaking of GEICO Honda its<br />
manager Dan Betley recently<br />
announced that he’s calling it a<br />
career and retiring. Betley’s had<br />
a great career in the sport starting<br />
in 1989 when he got the job<br />
at Factory Honda working for Jeff<br />
Stanton. That combo proceeded<br />
to rack up six SX and MX championships<br />
and then Dan took a<br />
year or two off before coming<br />
back as a motor guy for Honda of<br />
Troy and then shortly after that<br />
to Honda. <strong>On</strong>ce reunited back<br />
with big red, he was in charge of<br />
the 125cc program then a four<br />
stroke motor program and eventually<br />
became team manager.<br />
He moved to GEICO a couple of<br />
years ago and has decided to call<br />
it a day. Great guy, honest as the<br />
day is long and a hard worker,<br />
the sport will be worse off with<br />
Dan not in the pits.<br />
-I fully expect Team USA to be<br />
Zach Osborne, Jason Anderson<br />
and Justin Cooper for the upcoming<br />
MXDN in Assen, Netherlands<br />
this fall. Word on the street<br />
is that the original plan was to<br />
have Cooper Webb join up and<br />
Osborne drop down to the MX2<br />
class but Webb bowed out so<br />
Osborne was going to stay on his<br />
450. It’s a good team and will<br />
have a shot at the podium but<br />
going to need some luck to break<br />
the seven-year winless streak.<br />
You’ll notice that the two points<br />
leaders in the series aren’t in the<br />
trio and that’s not a typo. Both<br />
Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Eli<br />
Tomac and Monster Pro Circuit<br />
Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo<br />
won’t be on the team and although<br />
we’ll never really know<br />
who’s ultimate decision it was,<br />
my thinking is it was more Kawasaki’s<br />
than the riders. Yes, both<br />
riders publicly stated they would<br />
go to the race but what else were<br />
they supposed to say? It’s smart<br />
PR for them to be positive about<br />
the race and let the OEM take<br />
the flack for not sending them.<br />
My feelings on the race are well<br />
known, I love it but don’t feel
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