RacerX Bench Racing Ammo: Langston's Gear -ozzy go-

Grant Langston made some news this week when he won the
2007 AMA Toyota Motocross Championship in MSR gear. Now MSR
has a long history of success in motocross, and Langston certainly
has a resume full of his own previous success: He's won a world
title, an AMA MX title and a pair of 125/Lites Regional SX
Championships. But what makes last weekend's championship win
interesting here is the fact that Langston wore M2R gear all
summer long, then switched to MSR for the last round. How did
that happen? Well, M2R was sold earlier in the year, and with that
sale came reorganization. Having to refocus its revenues, the
company decided to buy Langston out of his contract earlier this
summer. Langston decided to keep wearing the M2R until
something for '08 and beyond came along, and when it did--with
MSR--he decided he would go ahead and switch now as a gesture
of good faith to his new gear sponsor, having done likewise with
his old gear sponsor by wearing it long after they had completed
their business relationship.

Okay, so what makes that Bench Racing Ammo? The fact that
similar late-season switches have happened before. Take Brad
Lackey in 1972, for instance. Lackey rode a CZ towards the first
AMA 500cc National MX Championship, but then switched to a
better-paying Kawasaki deal with exactly one race left in the
eight-race series. click on ozzy go to the full story on RacerX