Mike Pellitier spoke to us about the Deegan/Star Yamaha MXoN situation and he confirmed Deegan does want to race the event and they even spoke to him last Saturday about racing this weekend once Chance Hymas got injured.
Ultimately it didn’t work out with Julien Beamer raising his hand for team USA but Mike told us on Deegan: “We did have a conversation on that Saturday (last week). I mean we have to you know? Haiden’s one of our absolute best riders in America, but really, logistically, that was way too fast even try to pull that off . KTM having the bike here in Austria and helping us do that and throwing everything they have at it made that work and and I will say, Haiden has wanted to come all these years. He’s had things against him with injuries or things that have come up but he has wanted to go and we even had a lot of conversations back in even July this year and walking through this to see if we could make it happen, we couldn’t, but you know I’m supporting these three guys (Webb, Beaumer, Kitchen) and I’m excited to walk into the weekend with these guys.”
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