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Some strong rumors have been floating around since before the Pro Motocross Championship started that Zach Osborne would be racing either some rounds or all of the rounds.
Clearly at this point he can only potentially race three rounds, but I was just giving you some context into when I started hearing about this idea. I even had Zach-O on the Squad Pod after he broke his ribs at the Day in the Dirt and we had an off record part of our conversation about him racing again.
Well over the weekend these talks of him racing again have been pumped out into the Twitterverse…or Xverse, via (yep, you guessed it) Pulp Hockey’s Steve Matthes.
Another Steve Bomb baby!
This time, Matthes said that he will ride for the FXR/Muc-Off/ClubMX team for the last three rounds.
Right now ClubMX does have a couple vacant bikes around the shop as Jeremy Martin’s 250 and the now departed Garrett Marchbanks’ 450 is sitting idle. This would be a perfect opportunity for the former champion of both classes to come back and scratch the racing itch…I’m not sure if I like that saying or if I wrote in correctly…but I’m running it.
Our ace reporter Denny Stephenson did some more digging on the the matter with no intent on giving us the information, but we still love DBO…we just wish he’d turn in his ‘Most Likely’ answers every week. Thanks to DBO we now have some context as to which class Osborne wishes to do his suffering in…
I’m going to completely ignore this next Tweet…or whatever X calls them now and just completely go on a rant about how he needs to race.
Zach-O, let’s not take this day by day and let’s just race. Racer’s race and you’re a racer. If your back is good to go and doesn’t bother you while riding then what is the problem? You’re one of those sick individuals that enjoys the suffering of Moto, so let’s return to racing in the heat of the dog days of summer!
Also, you’ll get to share the truck with your old buddy Phil. You guys can talk about growing up and racing one another back in the good old days for hours. It’ll be great content for the ClubMX vlog and think about how much good feedback that you can provide the team at Club on their bike development.
I don’t know about you guys, but I get really excited when former champions return to racing. I think it’s a cool opportunity and I get all geeked out watching them ride one more time. I’m looking at you next Mr. Trey Canard.
Let’s end this column on a brighter side, instead of my normal tone, which is just me taking small ideas and then blowing them out of proportion.
The last time that we all had the chance to see Osborne race Pro Motocross was on June 5, 2021 at Thunder Valley where he finished 12-40 for 16th overall on the day. He was battling his back issue then and we didn’t have the chance to give him the proper farewell that he deserved. So, in these final three races we can finally give him that proper champion send off that he’s earned. Plus he’s a people’s champ, people love him, and he can make the already huge crowds of Pro Motocross even louder.
So, c’mon Zach-O, let’s not take this day by day. Let’s get those entries in for Unadilla, Budds Creek, and Ironman!
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