Jimmy Button

So that change in weight really opened the door to needing more control, very similar to the two-stroke, four-stroke thing I experienced at Yamaha.

And it was Jimmy Button and Tim Ferry, Red Dog, that worked through that, right? Yeah.

And so we do see some of those heavier springing things come in that you need to support the weight more.

But the cool part is we're right there when that revolution, revolution, whatever you want to call it, happened with some of our EOEs.

He's healthy.

I talked to his agent, Jimmy Button, today.

And thank you, Jimmy, for reaching out to give me some insight.

But he's ready to rip for playoffs, ready to rip for Moon Across the Nations.

Certainly I see things that he needs to be better at, but sometimes that's really just how you work you know, it could be the people that he has in his corner away from the track.

So I think you, if I was to, you know, have a phone call from Jimmy button or, you know, Eli, I mean, Levi tomorrow, I would be like, let's, let's break it down.

Like, where's it all going wrong? You know, is it, it just seems like he's been so close.

He has a lot of the, the needed skill sets, but he's falling short, right? We both, I would put the two of us in, you know, one of our closest friends is Mitch Payton.

And it's hard to comment on it without being on the circle.

And I'm not close to Levi or anyone.

I should say I'm good friends with Jimmy Button, who is his agent.

But outside of that, I don't really know too much about Levi.

And then the second moto, you got Levi getting bumped off the track.

I know his agent, Jimmy Button, kind of went off about this being... you know, or his words, how did he put it? Like a bunch of spastic rookies doing stupid shit.

He goes, look at the four 50 class.

Everyone sweeps into the turn.

And that's where we're at.

And so it's like no one really gets to know them.

Their only friends are like their goofy agent and old Santo, the MMA guy in LA.

It's the only people they hang out with.

I'm I'm impressed I mean we've seen him do this all season coming from so far from behind but especially the moto when they were off in the goalie off the start I didn't think he'd make it this far far back through I mean it's you know with ultimately he does take this title there's multiple races you'll be able to go back and look angle this is what helped him win the championship but I feel like possibly Dilla will stand out the most amongst that list if he ultimately gets this thing done

yeah I would agree and it's tough to say that because he was so good but in a similar vein to Hunter as we said off the top maybe the best guy had the worst luck in both classes at Unadilla uh Jimmy Button represents Levi still right I haven't missed I believe so I believe so So he put, I would believe so too, based on his Instagram today, he put up photos of 450 start and 250 start, essentially showing that in the 450 class, everyone turns into turn one.

Whereas in the 250 class, guys who have no shot at a good start are just going straight to salvage whatever they can.

Obviously going off a little bit, and I thought this would be interesting podcast fodder.