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Michael Jordan came to Jason Pridmore and offered to help him after hearing that Pridmore was out of money and couldn’t finish the 2004 AMA season.

Pridmore started the year as a rider for No Limit Motorsports, but the team said it was too expensive to race in Formula Xtreme and bailed out just prior to the AMA National at Barber Motorsports Park. That left Pridmore scrambling to race under the banner of his STAR school, but the program ran out of money and Pridmore planned to stop racing after the Mid-Ohio round.

Which is where Jordan came in, offering to help Pridmore, following a game of golf.

“I’m not sponsored by Michael Jordon Motorsports,” Pridmore told Roadracingworld.com Tuesday. “MJ just decided to help me. I’ve just become really good friends with MJ, and pretty much, I’ve been trying to keep it kind of quiet.

“Ohio was gonna be my last race of the year, because we were just out of money. As it turned out, when I was at Ohio, MJ asked me if we playing golf Monday, and I kind of hung out in Chicago for the better part of the month, because we had some schools in the area. I’ve gotten to be pretty good friends with him, played some golf, all those guys. MJ kind of caught wind at Ohio, when he heard I was in some trouble for the last couple rounds, and he offered to help me. It was really nice of him. He’s helping me as a personal friend and not as Michael Jordan Motorsports. He offered to help me out as a friend.”

As for a Michael Jordan Superbike program in 2005, Pridmore said, “Nothing’s even going along that road right now. He’s been helping me as a friend, I’m hanging out with these guys because they’re good friends, golfing and stuff, a lot of fun.”

Jordan is known to be interested in fielding an AMA Superbike program in 2005, but Pridmore said he hadn’t discussed that with Jordan.

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