\u201cYeah, Hunter is fine,\u201d offered O\u2019Mara. \u201cHunter is an intense individual. You just give him his space. Give him 24 hours and he just moves on. That\u2019s literally how we look at it. I give him his space. He flew home right away. Not sulking, but it just hurts a little bit. When you want to win that bad, you expect that to hurt. If you didn\u2019t see it hurt, then you\u2019d be disappointed in the person, because they lay everything on the line. I\u2019d be the same way. Some of the greatest people that I\u2019ve worked with, champions, business people, people all over, if they don\u2019t get their way, they\u2019re not too happy. They move on, though. As they say, you fail way more than you succeed. Hunter has had plenty of that. Jett has had plenty of that when he was young. Jett is going through it a little bit now. He had a couple of injuries, but he comes back. Last year he won. I don\u2019t see Jett missing any beats on this. I think he is going to be competitive right off the bat. I think we\u2019ll see that this weekend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Mara, who competed for Team Honda from 1980 through 1986, firmly believes, also, in the Honda HRC Progressive race team. Using some of his old connections, he has tried to help the program from the inside, connecting Japan to the American team like it was in his previous era.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good as you can imagine,\u201d said O\u2019Mara, who won the 1984 AMA Supercross Championship for Team Honda. \u201cEveryone kind of knows my history with the Honda racing team back when we built it super-strong in the 1980s. That was a long time ago, but that\u2019s how we tried to replicate it for Jett and Hunter. So, I was part of that and the Honda guys gave me full range to help with putting people in place. We\u2019ve got Japan way more involved now. It\u2019s built perfectly for both boys to succeed.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now comes the opener at Fox Raceway at Pala in Southern California. How are they looking at it all?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just the start of another motocross series for us. We don\u2019t really look at it any other way. You would think there are some big talks about it. There\u2019s not. In our camp, you can only control what\u2019s in front of us. That\u2019s just being prepared. You guys all know how my work ethic is and how we go about business. That translates to the boys, and I\u2019ve been around them long enough that we all kind of know what we\u2019re doing. We don\u2019t get wrapped up in anything other than making sure we are as prepared as possible when we go on the start line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, Hunter is fine,\u201d offered O\u2019Mara. \u201cHunter is an intense individual. You just give him his space. Give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":["post-701279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}