JDR Motorsports – Throwing In The Towel

Earlier today, it was revealed that JDR Motorsports would be shutting down following this season’s finale of the 2013 AMA Supercross in May. The JDR/J-Star/KTM team will continue to compete until the end of this year’s supercross season, with riders Malcolm Stewart, Joey Savatgy and Josh Cachia. The team was scheduled to race the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship as well, but unless additional funding can be found, the team’s racing effort will be no longer. We contacted Team Owner, Jay Rynenberg, although was not prepared to comment on the situation at this stage. However, JDR Motorsports issued the following statement via their Facebook page:

“JDR Motorsports would like to take this opportunity to thank its incredible staff, sponsors and loyal fans for their dedication, belief and encouragement over the past six years. We have appreciated your support and, for this reason, it is with much regret that we announce that JDR will close down at the end of the AMA Supercross season, if we cannot find additional funding.

We at JDR have always sought to set high standards for ourselves and have endeavoured to live up to these standards, which is why we are announcing our closure early. We had full intentions of seeing the year out but with the costs of running a professional team, we cannot continue the cost personally. We have worked tirelessly on gaining the support of the much needed sponsors but with the current economy this simply has not happened. We have never run our business to get ahead of others, but rather to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records and to improve what we did yesterday with today.

JDR has achieved so much over such a short period of time, including 5 Australian titles, many race wins and podiums, a podium at the Motocross of Nations and a podium in the US. We created the Dream Ride series, which has set the bench mark for this type of filming, and has been done on a small budget and with the help of our sponsors, making the series elaborate without being expensive.

Our staff has been JDR’s greatest asset and has been like extended members of our family. We would like to make particular mention to Nate Ramsay who has always been a gentlemen and an inspiration to our riders, our team and to us. To Vince Berinii, who has dedicated his professional and personal life to make our bikes way beyond what we could have ever expected. We would like to thank Rene, Justin, Richard and Tony for their tireless work on spinning the spanners day and night. To Ash Simpson, who has worked with us from the beginning with our marketing, and Jason McAlpine, who helped Dream Ride rise from a thought to a reality. Thank you Dirk, for not only driving our truck on those long road journeys but for being one of the most passionate lovers of the sport. A big thanks goes out to all our riders over the past six years – thank you for risking your lives with every ride, thank you for the wins and the losses and still holding your heads high.

_JDR has been a family run team, who had a dream to succeed in one of the greatest sports and, even though this part of the dream is ending, we feel with the people we have come to know and the loyalty of sponsors and fans, it has been a definite success. It has been an awesome journey, and we are grateful to you all._”

Additional funding may be found to support the team’s racing effort, but at this stage, it appears as though the doors will close. The team now intends to focus on the remaining season, and give it their all with Stewart, Savatgy and Australia’s Cachia gunning for a 250SX Championship title.