During the off-season, the sponsors and roster once again changed as team cofounder Mark Kendall was given the opportunity of a lifetime, along with No. 1 plate holder Josh Upperman, to ride for Tim Farr's upstart MotoSport Outlet/Baldwin Motorsports/FRE/Honda team. Also leaving the Allstars were the Thompson brothers, thus making space for Caleb Moore and Nathan Commer to come aboard. The team managed to land the first major outside sponsor for ATV MX racing with the Kellogg's brand, once again raising the bar for pros and amateurs alike and leading to the formation of a mini team (Brittany and Brenden Snider, Jay Corey and Jake Brattain) to help promote the Kellogg's brand. Armed with a powerhouse team and the biggest sponsors the sport had seen at that point, '06 looked to be a banner year for the Allstars and the sport in general. The team itself was enjoying unprecedented success, with Nathan Commer and Angela Butler dominating various classes at both the ATV MX Nationals and new ESPN2/WPSA series. Unfortunately for everyone involved, supporting the WPSA series led to backlash from their competition leaving both FMF and the Media Allstars in the crossfire. With only four rounds to go, the team lost its title sponsor as well as its 18-wheeler. Utterly disgusted by the turn of luck, the team's resolve only grew stronger and each remaining race was attacked with a newfound motivation.
"We had to show the racing community that fancy trucks don't win races, heart does. And we had way more fire in our hearts at that time than anyone," team manager Jorge Cuartas said. "At that point Commer was nearly unstoppable, and we were banking on championships to show our sponsors that we could turn heads regardless of what we drove to the races." Commer's A-class championships and Angela's double Women's championships turned heads, and the bad cards dealt to the team led to the support of a handful of industry insiders, chief among them Hinson Racing's Wayne Hinson, Yoshimura USA's Brant Russell and Suzuki's Rod Lopusnak. "Those three guys pretty much saved us, regardless of the fact that we [the team] were aboard Hondas and competing against their guys week in and week out."
Not surprisingly, in '07 the team switched to Suzukis with help from yet another powerhouse, Jeff Cernic, and contested the WPSA series full time. In another industry shocker, the team was picked up by Tucker Rocky Distributing to represent various proprietary brands. As had become the norm, roster changes ensued, this time with Angela Butler and Jay Corey leaving to start up a team of their own. Aaron Meyer, Cody Grant, Casey Martin, Austin Wilson, Chad Sumner and Bobby Ross all joined the Cernic's Suzuki-backed Pro Am team, while Chase Cunningham, Danny Cooper, Jordan Digby and DJ Spurling joined the amateur team. Armed with confidence and the best equipment money could buy, the '07 Media Allstars were poised for its best season yet. Unfortunately, during a preseason international warm-up race, the team's number one prospect Nathan Commer was injured.
"Commer's injury pretty much took the wind out of our sails, seeing our best rider in that bad of shape wreaked havoc on morale, and it was downhill from there," lamented Cuartas. "That kid's winning attitude was infectious; he not only made you believe he could win, he made you believe you might have a shot."