Dean Wilson is one of those riders, like Malcolm Stewart and Jake Weimer, that wasn’t able to secure a ride for the 2017 Monster Energy Supercross season. We've been waiting (hoping?) to see Dean get something, and he's been riding a Yamaha YZ450F given to him by the Yamaha guys. But when the official Yamaha PR dropped yesterday outlining its 2017 race teams, Wilson was nowhere to be found on it.

Yamaha had been working behind the scenes to try to fit him in somewhere but looks like that didn’t work. We have confirmed, though, that Wilson will be at Anaheim 1 on a Yamaha as a privateer and we suppose he’ll decide after the first few races what direction he’s going to go.

So Dean's on blue, but will he have a crew? We'll see.

[Update: Dec. 16]

Last night, in a series of tweets, Wilson further explained his situation heading into the 2017 season, writing: "Don't feel bad for me. I'm good! I'm going to be racing I'm gonna do my best I'm working hard and doing all I can do to be at the races."

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