TAYLOR FUTRELL: JUST THE FACTS
Author: Brent Stallo	Features | Monday, 01 June 2009 14:36

Photography: Kaelyn Sheedy

 

Facts are facts and, after some digging around, we’ve finally got all the facts on the fiasco that currently surrounds North Carolina’s Taylor Futrell. Yesterday evening we posted a current event that stated that Futrell was disqualified from the 250A class at the Southeast Loretta Lynn Regional hosted at Mill Creek. That was a fact. We also stated that rumor had it that he was running a 310cc motor. While rumors were floating around at the time that he was running a 310cc motor, it was not fact. Following a conversation early Monday morning with Larry Dukes, the technician hired to tear down over seven motors at the event, we found out that Futrell had not, in fact, been using a 310cc motor, but rather a 255cc motor.

 

So what did we learn from all of this? First, there are more rumors floating around the pits of a motocross race then in the high school girl’s locker room. Second, despite being off on the cc count, the fact still remains that Futrell was caught with an illegal motor and was disqualified from the event.

 

To get the real truth it is important to explore multiple sides of the story. With this in mind we contacted Larry Dukes – the tech in charge of inspecting the bikes, Chris and Taylor Futrell – the participants caught using an illegal motor, and Derek Rogers - one of the seven other riders who was randomly selected to have his bike torn down at the event.

 

Following are three short interviews that will without doubt shed some light on the AMA inspection calamity from Mill Creek last weekend.

 

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