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RV, RD, and JS are all set up pretty damn good.
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look at any of the past dominant champions we have had in this sport. Look at what RC and James used to do....win by 30 , 45sec.....sometimes a full minute. Did you ever ask why they were riding that way? It's to completely demoralize your competition. And yeah.....it works!
Look at last year at how Baggett and Tomac demoralized Roczen and Musquin in a lot of those races. They had Roczen in almost tears because he couldn't figure out how to run that pace without damn near killing himself.
So.....what "you" are saying is....RV and his team don't know what they are doing. That he doesn't / shouldn't win by 15 , 20 or 30 seconds? That is the point of racing in the first place......don't just win....stomp the living shit out of your competition and leave them guessing!
I think you need to come up with some other creative ways on how to slam on RV. Because this case......you are completely blowing it.
I'd be surprised if he doesn't smash em to bits this year... As good as Dunge is, as well as James can still ride, RV forces everyone to ride at their limit, all the dang time, because he knows that at his, he's faster and more comfortable...
Another redhead used to use that strategy...
Villipoto waxed the crowd at Glen Helen in 09 then didn't finish the series. Dungey ran out of gas while he was dominating in Texas and it was over for him. Anything can happen.
All that being said 2 was damn impressive yesterday.
24 and 0? Probably not, but 2 and 0 is pretty damn good at this point. Go RV.
So to recap, following a 10 win SX season:
1. Ready to handle media duties after c'ship this year.
2. Not sick, not hurt.
3. A little extra testing time.
All added up to what we saw yesterday. And I believe we would have seen something very similar last year when he wrapped up the SX title the earliest in history.
It's always a little strange (and a little sad) when you realize the big dog riders who have dominated the scene (Reed, Stewart) are now being dominated. Especially when they are legends as big as Stewart and Reed. Just like when RC did it to MC and people were having a hard time believing their own eyes. We see it repeated time and again. There will come a new "The Man."
But right now, RV is The Man. The Alpha Dog. The "800" Pound Gorilla. (See what I did there?)
The guy has a point to prove this year after that whole deal with Dungey running out of fuel and stuff in 2011, and I'm pretty confident that that point will be made this summer.
2nd Moto results.
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