Click on the link to hear Jones break down the 2010 season and give an update on his work as marketing director with Team Mushin Racing.
Tomblin and Jones have a frank discussion about the state of the industry, how far we've come since the dark decade of the 1990s and how those storm clouds may be kept at bay by - no surprise here - through the efforts of aftermarket teams like Mushin Racing, Baldwin Motorsports, Walsh Racecraft and others.
"I started racing pro in 98, and I can remember back in the day just hoping we would have a privateer team like we have with Mushin now," Jones tells Tomblin. "Realistically, there's not really any other team out here as privateer as we are and putting as much into it as we are. Back in the day, there wasn't a lot of this ... so you basically had to do it on your own. Jones and Tomblin recognize the major losses, like this year's absence of Kawasaki, but they also see the silver lining with teams such as Suzuki and Can-Am sticking around, as well as helping support some of the privateer efforts.
"Hopefully these manufacturers will stick around," Jones said. "It's looking pretty good (even) with the economy the way it is."
Check out the interview at ATVMotocross.com
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