by Davey Coombs
250 Words: Budds Creek
Monday, June 20, 2011 | 10:10 AM
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PrintThe stranglehold Mitch Payton's Pro Circuit Kawasakis hold on the 250 Class has now reached four races in a row for 2011 (five, if you go back to Dean Wilson's win at the Pala 2010 finale). The red plate for the points lead has switched hands three times so far between two-race winners Blake Baggett and Tyla Rattray, plus Wilson. Even Broc Tickle, the fourth member of the squad's outdoor juggernaut, grabbed his first moto podium of summer with a third in Budds Creek's opening heat—this after being the one Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki rider to win an AMA Supercross Lites title. In other words, all four of these guys can flat-out fly.
Rattray is the latest in line of PC riders to hold the red plate.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Payton and his crew have a way of combing the far corners of the motocross world and coming up with a fast lineup that always seems to work. Rattray is from South Africa, Wilson from Scotland, Baggett from California, and Tickle from North Carolina. In years past, there have been Frenchmen (Christophe Pourcel, Eric Sorby), Englishmen (James Dobb), New Zealanders (Ben Townley), Canadians (Darcy Lange), Australians (Brett Metcalfe), and even a Mexican (Pedro Gonzalez), plus a whole bunch of very fast American kids.
How do they do it? That's a question the rest of the class has been trying to answer since 1991, when Payton sent four young prospects named McGrath, Lamson, Swink, and Buehl out to win races. Like Duke in basketball, the University of Alabama in football, or the New York Yankees in baseball, Pro Circuit just keeps signing the best talent.
Incidentally, Mitch Payton wasn't even at Budds Creek this weekend to see Rattray beat Wilson for the overall. He was at Mammoth Mountain in California, scanning the track for future prospects.
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I know Deano and Tyla are great guys and really deserving, but I sure would like to see an American on that top step!
Wonder if Tomac or Baggett will get a slot on MXoN.
Mitch-
You dont have to go to Mammoth to find talent. I found your next rider, you can thank me later !
Just watch the this year's lites class and keep your on #37 Darryn Durham.
He is the kid with sick style and tons of speed and taking it to the factories each weekend.
He is the guy who was running top 5 for most of the 1st moto @ Hangtown and all over your PC bikes on a Eleven10 Mods bike until a lapper took him out.
He is the privateer who made up for a bad start and was charging into the top 10 @ Freestone until his bike broke and he could continue moto 1 and didn't have the parts to fix it for moto 2.
He is the privateer who was spanking your team at high point until a few minor mistakes got to him with about 5mins left in the moto.
He also is the same kid who was catching your green machines and all over Tickle @ budds creek this weekend until he had a bad get-off and ripped his front caliper off the wheel.
Privateer #37 Darryn Durham is your man for 2012 Mitch.
Or if your looking to try him out, throw him on Hansen's bike for the remainder of outdoors.
You can find Darryn Durham in the Eleven10 Mods box van he is pitting out of, its usually crammed with 4 bikes and parts for 2 riders and they have 2 mechanics and Chad Sanner keeping a watchful eye over the crew.
By the way Mitch I'll take 10% for finding you this talent for you.
Ryan K.
Ryan K
I've seen enough, I'll stamp that. Put him on hansens bike.
Come one why did you have to say the yankees? i mean really people like Pro circuit and the ridders. no one likes the yankees or their players. (plus they have $$ and roids on their side) these guys dont sign for money on mitchs team. they sign for the great bike. same cant be said for the yankees:P
good article though!
I agree that the Yankee's are a bad reference.
They have money to throw at it, but no the titles to back up that spend. Pro Circuit builds champions and wins titles with their talent.
The Yankee's should in fact hire Mitch as a consultant to help them figure out how to win with all that talent they buy.
@mrb186 who wrote:
"I know Deano and Tyla are great guys and really deserving, but I sure would like to see an American on that top step!"
Tough sheet neekha. Yeah, as John Kochinski once famously stated, "If you ain´t American, you ain´t sh1t".
Ha ha ha Someone should have suggested he get an education and learn the meaning of a double negative.
I see an Irishman and an Aussie finished 1st and 2nd in the US Open, and I see only 2 yanks finished in the top 10.
Oy vey, da sufferink. LOL
PS. I´m giving you stupid yanks a hard time because you think the world revolves around America. I´m gonna be here all the time reminding you it doesn´t, well at least until you learn a bit of humility.LOL.
Impressed with Durham again, he was on pace with the PC guys again and think soon he will be on the top step. Now that he knows he can run with them and a little luck he can win. And don't kid your self his bike is top notch, Just like in drag racing which has seen for years there are a lot of guys out there who know how to make a 4 stroke run and the guy at eleven ten mods knows how to make them run, Just wish he has some high dollar sponsors.
Mike.. One way to piss off a lot of people... But man.. You are just wasting your time... And.. You should visit the other websites... Frogs think they are the best.. And are still under the disbelief that CP would and shud have won in 2010 the outdoors... Aren't we living in 2011?? Germans think they will son be back to pre WW2...
Come the Des nations... The US kicks everybody's butt!
As the frogs say... C'est la vie
@Mike, jealousy is a really ugly thing, and you are insanely jealous. It makes you look and sound like a total ignorant fool. First-who gives a crap about golf?? Nobody likes that gay sport brought over here by YPOUR people. And 2nd, who cares what an old 6 year verteramn does against a bunch of 17 year old kids?? Rattray is doing nothing but sandbagging , he is too old to even ride that class in the Des Nations. So his winning isnt that prestiges. And NO, we all dont think the world revolves around us here, but we know alot of jealous haters think that about us. It makes you ignorant and sad. Take your hate out on some terrorists or something, we are just motocross fans here..
@MNmoto-- Pro Circut IS the Yankees of 250 class racing. They have way more money and resources than any other team at their disposal.. And they buy the best talent. Sounds just like the Yankees to me.
@mike. we dont all feel the way BD200 wrote.
@BD200. why dont you look into the history of motocross before you make a statement about golf like you did. something else came from across the pond. and yes pro ciruit is rich but thats a BUILT dyansty not a PURCHASED one. there my friend lies the difference i was talking about.... well that and they are not arrogant players the yankees are.
@Mike- I look forward to seeing if you can sway any American's to see things the way you do, but I can guarantee you it will not happen! I agree, that a lot of American's are very narrow minded people, who feel superior to all other humans on earth, but it's not their fault, you see, they were brought up that way, and they don't know any different. I also believe that there are just as many or more American's who are not so ignorant in this matter, it's just that the fools seem to have a much louder voice.
@bd200- What Mike is saying has nothing to do with jealousy, get a grip, nucklehead. What exactly is he jealous about?
HEY DAVE ARE YOU GOING TO WRITTE THE 250 WORDS EVERY WEEK ABOUT PRO CIRCUIT? COME ON THERE´S A LOT OF TALENT OUT THERE.
Mike, do you not have your d1ck today?
Durham definetly has some blazing speed. He could do one of Mitchs bikes justice.
ewwww darryns so fast
MNmoto, dont get me wrong, I am not a NY fan. But Pro Circut has more money and resources than any other 250 team there is. Mitch has built the best moto team and most successful one there is. Kinda like the Yankees. I'm not talking about hot shot players attitudes or anything. I'm talking about paying the most and having a tradition of winning so as to get the best riders out there.
And I dont know why you would defend an arrogant ignorant statement like the one that Mike made about Americans on here. Belive me I know my moto history. I have been a fan since I was a child in the early '70's so dont try to educate me. That bigot was making a statement about a non-American winning a golf tournament and I basically let him know that not many guys here care about a gay "sport" like golf. Could care less. He is a bigot and very anti-American, and he is on here for one purpose--to hate. And you defend him. He will be real jealous when we win the Des Nations--again.
Ok bd200, who was running up front on 250F @ the Nations! US is strong on the 450F, they have RD, but not the 250F. It will be a ProCircuit #1 plate on the 250F, by the time the Honda boys get goin' its over! I hope RD or RV reel in the Honda on the 450 also, would like to see KAWI win both titles!
Question for Mike. Are you from one of the countries whose azz we kicked or whose azz we saved?
Kidding aside, all due respect to our brothers & forefathers from across the pond. It is worth noting that Mike is on an AMERICAN moto website, what, they don't have websites in turdsylvania?
We all think we are better because we actually ARE BETTER (except the 350 mounted guys, of course). Maestro, que up the Star Spangled Banner..............
Oh yeah, NY Yankees hater here. Now I want anybody to win besides them.
Mike, sorry to point out the obvious, but the world does revolve around the U.S. The strongest democracy, strongest economy, strongest military, and the best legal system, not to mention the best professional motocross series, makes the U.S. the world leader. Sorry if you find our patriotism offensive.
the ball is pitched and either you hit it our you dont.yankees have the titles to prove it..you dum idiots..a lot more than any other team...by far.and if you dont like america than go to hell cuz if it wasnt for us you wouldnt even have the rights to type on a computer and run your gay mouths..remember d-day? i do and all you anti americans can suk it!!!
ATTENTION guys, the big Anti-American as# on here who calls himself MIKE is IRISH. Dont know what he thinks America ever done wrong to him, but it is obvious he is a jealous loser..
@TJ , not sure what you were trying to tell bd200, but he was stationg that there are about 5 top 450 riders who can win a 450 race from America who are younger than Rattray. That was his point, saying that Rattray "should" be winning by now in the beginner class. Rattray should grow a pair and move up like he should have when he won the GP title. He had a good 450 ride lined up. Maybe he will grow a pair someday, and move upo and get spanked..