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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 2:47pm
http://www.motocrossplanet.com/nieuws/item.php?nieuws_id=2754&home=1

This guy is amazing he nearly beat Rattary in the qualifying heat in the nations and he had jsut turned 15 2 weeks before!

Holland may have found their next motocross superstar... he is factory KTM at 15!
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Alex 11/22/2009 4:58am
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He came into a few of those corners so fast I was sure he was gonna burst through them or at least berm bash but he just flowed through them. Hes gonna be a star.
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Cool video, McCread, thanks for sharing that. He looks really, really fast, and he did have a great moto at the MXoN on Saturday. Amazing that he just turned 15.

By the way, the track looks like the old Orlando track called Orlando International Speedway, I think. It's where they had Trans-AMAs back in the day, and I think Gerrit Wolsink won there in '73 on a Maico. Beginning of his love affair with American races that saw him win Carlsbad (baked hard-pack, not sand) five times in six years.

Just a little Dutch moto trivia....

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DrSweden 11/22/2009 9:36am
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Yeah, the kid hauls ass. This is the second time in like 5 years I actually enjoyed the music in a mx-vid.

15 years old, and allready this fast. This means he have become this fast in like 7 years? Which means I can become super-fast in 7 years as well!!!

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M-M 11/22/2009 10:31am
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Can see him and roczon battling alot behind Simpson who will be in the lead....
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ayearinmx 11/22/2009 11:00am
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right at the end of 2008, i watched Herlings and Anstie battle it out for the junior world champs........ on 85cc bikes!!

a year later and anstie has completed a season in the 250 class, and herlings has been in the mxdn... talk about a massive step-up
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M-M wrote:
Can see him and roczon battling alot behind Simpson who will be in the lead....
And Musquin will count the points ...

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Cool, thanks for posting that video. Kid looks to be a coming star.
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Gardner37 11/22/2009 5:43pm
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Reminds me of Bithlo before Banka fucked it up for good. What a shame. JH looks good but anyone would when its butter smooth.
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It reminded me of the old Dade city track with a little rain the day before. I like it.
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andymoto 11/23/2009 12:48am
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Motodude wrote:
[img]https://www.sigmans.nl/Site%20Frans%20Sigmans/jaren/1979/fs%201979%2005%2024%20lienden_bestanden/image002.jpg[/img] Helps when your father is Peter Herlings (right) one time 500 GP contender... [img]https://www.sigmans.nl/Site%20Frans%20Sigmans/jaren/1977/fs%201977%2003%2013%20st.anthonis_bestanden/image008.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.mcson.nl/?e=247]test your dutch, read about Peter Herlings smokin the field here.[/url]


Helps when your father is Peter Herlings (right) one time 500 GP contender...



test your dutch, read about Peter Herlings smokin the field here.
Nice Dutch National race he won....Gerard Rond, Wolsink, Frans Sigmunds, Toon Karsmakers....some good comp.

Thought Peter rode more 250GP rider later on like Neil Hudson or Pekka Vekkonen(sp?) days. Was thinking maybe even Hakan Andersson era, but not sure.

Heard about Jeffery while back that he was very good for his age; not Roczen speed, but not too far off either.

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mccread 11/23/2009 4:14am
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Yep Roczen and Herlings are getting the hype for next year and rightfully so at just 15 but Christophe Charlier beat them both in the Euro champs in 2009 and took the title, he is 17 and will be a contender as well, add to them World Champ Musquin as well as Simpson Paulin and Osborne. The MX2 class should have some amazing racing next season. But I'm rooting for Simpson I think he can do it, he is tough.

DC just out of interest why is there no national in Florida since Gainsville? Is it becasue of the weather in the summer?, they seem to have great tracks and alot of the riders live or come from there, seems like it would get a big crowd.
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DC 11/23/2009 6:50am
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Florida is a tough area to draw a lot of fans. They have tried MX in St. Petersburg, Orlando and Gainesville, plus SX in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville... It's great for year-round riding, but the crowds aren't there for spectating. (Baseball has the same problem, as the Marlins and the Devil Rays always struggle when they aren't contenders.)


Gainesville used to draw a modest crowd, and that was in March, when it basically kicked off Bike Week at Daytona (the one event that does draw a good SX crowd in Florida). If it weren't back on the schedule, it would have to take place sometime in June, July or August, when it's really hot down there and there are no tourists to draw from, compared to winter and spring.


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Tbteam 11/23/2009 7:39am
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At 2:25, there is a clip where he rails a berm, and the audio picks up a two stroke nearer the microphone. It was heaven.

Orlando Sports Stadium Davey?

I raced yesterday at a track in Bartow, FL that reminded me quite a bit of Orlando.
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Mark, that's what I meant! Sorry, it's been awhile. The last time I raced there was a Winter-AMA in '78, I think. I won the 85cc (12-14) class the week before in the mud in Jacksonville, then went to Orlando when it was dry and sandy -- and there is NO sand where I live in the northeast -- and got lapped by Todd Hempstead and Freddie Von Wagoner and those guys. It was brutal. I think only Cocoa Beach was rougher.

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Tbteam 11/23/2009 8:06am
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Diamondback! Where men were sent cowering home to the couch.

At our vintage race yesterday we had Billy Liles on a KX420, Tim Ealy on a YZ465 and Eric Yarnell on a 1980 CR125 all in 40+ Evo A. It was epic!
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mccread 11/23/2009 8:20am
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DC wrote:
Florida is a tough area to draw a lot of fans. They have tried MX in St. Petersburg, Orlando and Gainesville, plus SX in Orlando, Tampa...
Florida is a tough area to draw a lot of fans. They have tried MX in St. Petersburg, Orlando and Gainesville, plus SX in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville... It's great for year-round riding, but the crowds aren't there for spectating. (Baseball has the same problem, as the Marlins and the Devil Rays always struggle when they aren't contenders.)


Gainesville used to draw a modest crowd, and that was in March, when it basically kicked off Bike Week at Daytona (the one event that does draw a good SX crowd in Florida). If it weren't back on the schedule, it would have to take place sometime in June, July or August, when it's really hot down there and there are no tourists to draw from, compared to winter and spring.


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that's interesting i thought they would have got a good crowd there with the sucess of RC ans Stewart. although when I was there motocross didn't seem that well known, especially compared to Socal where it is like motocross heaven!
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The last SX of RC's career, when he battled with Stewart at Orlando '07, should have been sold out. Two Florida superstars, plus Chad Reed and Tim Ferry and Davi Millsaps (all Floridians by residence or birth), and the place wasn't even half full. The ones who were there saw an amazing race! There's just too much other stuff to do down there, maybe. Believe me, it's nothing like California.

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mccread 11/23/2009 9:01am
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Yea that's hard to understand. I have that race on tape it was one of the best ever between those two, Everts even went to watch I remember!
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Sandberm 11/23/2009 9:36am
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I loved that sand the kid was riding in. Perfect density and wetness. Just pitch it in the corners with a slight front wheel knife move to scrub speed, then hold it wide open to exit. Cool thing about sand is the aggressiveness you can exert on the track....throttle controll, no need for that.

Thanks for shareing the video.
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Blake 11/23/2009 10:31am
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When does the "Gotta be 18 to race pro" rule kick in?
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mccread 11/23/2009 10:32am
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I think it is 17 this year then 18 in 2011?
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Blake 11/23/2009 11:16am
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Anyone can go fast there. That track was like a sand freeway. I like the kids style though.

The 2 stroke here and there was nice. That 4 stroke.. those things just sound like crap.

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cpj36 11/23/2009 2:10pm
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DC wrote:
Florida is a tough area to draw a lot of fans. They have tried MX in St. Petersburg, Orlando and Gainesville, plus SX in Orlando, Tampa...
Florida is a tough area to draw a lot of fans. They have tried MX in St. Petersburg, Orlando and Gainesville, plus SX in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville... It's great for year-round riding, but the crowds aren't there for spectating. (Baseball has the same problem, as the Marlins and the Devil Rays always struggle when they aren't contenders.)


Gainesville used to draw a modest crowd, and that was in March, when it basically kicked off Bike Week at Daytona (the one event that does draw a good SX crowd in Florida). If it weren't back on the schedule, it would have to take place sometime in June, July or August, when it's really hot down there and there are no tourists to draw from, compared to winter and spring.


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that's interesting i thought they would have got a good crowd there with the sucess of RC ans Stewart. although when I was there motocross didn't...
that's interesting i thought they would have got a good crowd there with the sucess of RC ans Stewart. although when I was there motocross didn't seem that well known, especially compared to Socal where it is like motocross heaven!
You see a lot of people from that part of Florida, west to Mississippi, Louisiana area that also go to Atlanta. Daytona and Orlando were back to back just a couple weeks after ATL, along with LL areas getting going.

People in MS, LA and surrounding also have TX and MO rounds to choose from.

Many of us in those empty stands have a lot to do with ATL being so good. I see people in ATL that the only other time I may see is at a regional or LL, we've also got Daytona 500 in Feb, Gator Nationals usually on same weekend as Daytona SX or Orlando.

ATL & Daytona, there's something else to do and you don't need rental cars to get from airport to hotel, to race. Not much else going on around Citrus bowl and just look forward to expensive parking and post race road rage in Jax.

Look at the Jags attendance, feel much better about SX draw.

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