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Originally Posted by sburns2421
I thought 2007 was Stewart's last year racing outdoors?
With RC, Reed, Bubba, and Langston out, this could be Windham's year.
In my perfect world I'd like to see RC or Stefan Everts come out of retirement and show them how its done.
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KDub is SX-only.
Last I heard, Stewie is still slated to run the outdoors. That was his "reason" for getting his knee fixed and tanking his SX season. Outside of Townley getting healthy and finding the groove he had in Lites, I don't really see any reason why Stewie can't have a perfect final season on the Kawi. I'm a huge JBS fan, but if he heads to a blue bike as rumored, I'll have to turn my back on him. Why can't Honda open their wallet? It all makes sense: Stewie on a Honda, plastered w/ Red Bull sponsorship (bike and gear), on the top step of the podium every week in a Monster-sponsored series. Sweet revenge!
Excerpt from a Windham interview in Jan:
Do you have a Supercross-only program this year?
Yeah, right now it’s a Supercross-only contract. It was weird, last year, I felt like at the end of a three race series I was like “I can’t keep up, I have to go sit on the couch I just can’t keep up. I can’t ride, I’m tired, I can’t keep up.” And that was a frustrating position to be in. I just felt really, really bad with where I was in life, so coming into this year, I have such a better focus of doing what I’m doing. It’s not the fact that I don’t like outdoors, I love them and I want to do them, but I couldn’t keep up last year. Now this year, they’ve tightened the series up to where now you have to do five in a row. I don’t know, I just couldn’t keep up and that was a miserable feeling. Now that I’ve eliminated that feeling, I just feel so much happier now. Instead of feeling like after Supercross, “Damn I’ve got to start outdoors.” Now, I’m feeling like after Supercross I’m going to be board, and I need to find something to do. I would love to put something together where I do a couple nationals, but I don’t think I can maintain doing it week in and week out.
I’m not a spring chicken; I’ve been doing this since 1994. I’m 30 years old now, and I know that there are guys out here that are older than me, but it was just hard to keep the focus and the drive all the way through. I feel like whenever the sponsors aren’t getting what they deserve, the fans aren’t getting what they deserve.
I just feel like the Supercross-only contract is a way better deal. I just hope there’s not a lot of backlash for me not riding outdoors. I think people understand where I’m coming from. It’s not that I feel like outdoors don’t need to be there, I think that they’re wonderful and the building blocks for everything that you do with a motorcycle. Unfortunately, for me it got to be where it was just a little bit too much racing for me.