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Top Moment: Brendan Fairclough on why Monster entered downhill

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Sports, Wilderness

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🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

I was going to ask you about obviously Monster now being a title sponsor of the World Cups.

0:03.9

Really exciting. Isn't it? I think it is, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. The more I've thought about it, you know, at first we saw, oh, that's pretty cool. And then I was like, you know what? Look what they've done for some other sports. Yeah. Obviously Supercross is the main one. You can, you know, we're all Supercross fans so you can be like wow look at the show that they do and the hype around it

0:21.4

and then Speedway as well monster came into Speedway years ago. It's like a big opportunity as well for them. Lifted it, yeah. It's like quite an exciting period, isn't it? The World Cup, like, there's so much controversy around it all that they could really do something. I think it seems that way. Have you got any thoughts, insight, what they're going to be doing?

0:40.8

I've got a pretty cool story about how it all sort of came about, which I might get fired,

0:47.0

but I just run it.

0:47.9

It has to be a bit.

0:49.4

So my, my monster.

0:51.3

Don't leave yourself over again.

0:52.3

My monster manager brought a big wig over to, my, my, my monster manager, uh, brought a big wig over to, um, Lijé World Cup.

0:59.9

Yeah.

1:00.5

Just get people, get him involved showing what's happening in the World Cups, this,

1:04.2

and the other.

1:05.3

And the big, the big guy, uh, the big boss at, uh, Monster was watching the Lejeie World Cup unfold.

1:12.9

You know, it's this, and it's just like, that end, that end show when like Amory comes

1:19.7

over the line.

1:20.9

And however many police are there, this, the gates, their, the fences are getting knocked

1:25.6

down.

1:25.9

Everyone's running here.

1:26.9

There's like spraying beers and monsters and waters in the air.

1:30.5

It's just like a riot.

1:32.1

And a normal partner sponsor would be like, shit, this is savage.

1:36.9

Yeah.

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