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From the post-race press conference at Brainerd:

Mat Mladin: “It was poor officiating by the AMA again.”

Miguel Duhamel: “They should have just called it…I just don’t understand it. Jake almost crashed, I almost crashed…They need to review this and do something…You’ve got people running across the track and that’s really terrible.”

Jake Zemke: “It was awfully wet…The cornerworker running across the racetrack, there’s no excuse for that…No one needs to be running across the racetrack while bikes are racing, there’s no excuse for that. It was scary. You’re doing all you can to keep it on two wheels and you see somebody running across the track and looking back at you and both her eyeballs are bigger than her head.”