"It doesn’t stress me out because we run fuel off the shelf. We run Pro 6 VP. Everyone runs it. I think Star runs that same gas. So I don’t know. After the whole day, I felt like the main event, I won the race. I pulled away from Shane. I won I felt like fair and square. What else can they throw at me? Then I hear they’re protesting me. I was at the AMA trailer just yelling at the Star guys. We run the same gas. I didn’t get it. We’ve had problems with the team before. I just was kind of frustrated. At the end of the day, I was happy I won."

"I didn’t know about it at the time, but our team had heard something about a team getting a shipment of fuel in not long after we got to Utah. I didn’t know that but they came to me after the race and they were like 'Hey, there’s not a very good chance, but there is a little chance that they could be running illegal fuel.' It’s $1,800 bucks [to protest], we have the money, we can do it right now and you can pay us back. It was like, 'Hey, you know what? We’ve done everything else we could today so let’s just do it.' If it’s not illegal, it’s fine. I’m not holding my breath expecting it to be illegal. Again, Chase beat me. Chase rode great all year, and yeah, I got second. But if it comes back that they were running illegal fuel and they cheated, then we get a championship and a bigger bonus, but I’m not holding my breath. It was one of those things, you don’t want to live and not know. So it was like, well, if we got beat straight up, we got beat straight up, but if they did use illegal fuel, that’s on them. I’m not holding my breath.”