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Who is the favourite?.....
James on a Suzuki fully focused on SX and MX with his old mechanic behind him could be the perfect storm.
RV rides best when he has something to prove, and he won't want Stewart taking his momentum, with the new team hype.
Dungey... the quietest of the big four... but probably the most consistent... but can he get the bike and his starts back to what they where in 2010?
Reed... one more year with his new team could make all the difference, I really think he could win the title, no one will get in his head and he always believes he can be better than anyone else.
Canard... style is there, speed is there, great team, Trey just needs to stay calm and take the pressure off himself.
In the lites classes, KTM with Roczen and Musquin could be hard to beat, Marvin is great at Supercross and has US experiance from a few years ago. Roczen might just be the best rider in world bar none in any class.
PC will have Dean who will want to win a sx title, and Baggest in his third year.. both can win, Durham will be fast too.
Geico Honda, Barcia will be all out to retain his title and Tomac will want to avenge his title loss, but it could be tougher this season.
James on a Suzuki fully focused on SX and MX with his old mechanic behind him could be the perfect storm.
RV rides best when he has something to prove, and he won't want Stewart taking his momentum, with the new team hype.
Dungey... the quietest of the big four... but probably the most consistent... but can he get the bike and his starts back to what they where in 2010?
Reed... one more year with his new team could make all the difference, I really think he could win the title, no one will get in his head and he always believes he can be better than anyone else.
Canard... style is there, speed is there, great team, Trey just needs to stay calm and take the pressure off himself.
In the lites classes, KTM with Roczen and Musquin could be hard to beat, Marvin is great at Supercross and has US experiance from a few years ago. Roczen might just be the best rider in world bar none in any class.
PC will have Dean who will want to win a sx title, and Baggest in his third year.. both can win, Durham will be fast too.
Geico Honda, Barcia will be all out to retain his title and Tomac will want to avenge his title loss, but it could be tougher this season.
Dungey on a Katoom 450EFI...not sure how that will work out for him in SX.
If Canard stays healthy he will be in contention.
Seems like he learned a lot last year and was really progressing.
Reed will be a solid front runner as always.
With that said, I'm going with one of the so-called old guys.
22 or 7 takes it!
As for the Lites, Barcia on either coast should take it again this year.
W. Hahn,M. Stewart,Roczen,Tomac,Deano & Baggett should also be front runners on either coast.
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All things considered, RV seems like the favorite, but Canard popped his balloon in the lites, who's to say he won't do it again? James is an easy pick to get several wins and could control the series. Reed and Dungey are masters of consistency.
Another exciting year ahead!
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He did however have some close get offs,but if he irons those out & stays healthy he will just keep progressing.
I think he has just as much of a shot taking it this year as any of the guys out there do.
Seem unlikely one manufactuerer could support both.
However, i dont really agree with the lites comments.
In my opinion, i dont think roczen or musquin will be front runners, its all well and good to win a GP championship, but racing AMA's is a completely different story.
And calling roczen the bast from bar to none is definitely an exaggeration.
As for Roczen, will he be fast YES, but I think more than anything he will have to work on consistency for supercross. With the lites class only being 8 or so rounds, his mistakes will be costly in terms of a championship.
I still think JS7 will win the title, if he just stays off the ground. JMHO!
Didn't Roczen get a 3rd in the shootout (E vs W ) and then he also won the Lites West main in Vegas?
Then the week before he was second at SLC..and also got got a podium(3rd) at A2.
He did that in his first year over here and he also was juggling 2 series towards the last few rounds.
He learned a lot also last year and he will be a contender/front runner this year for sure.
At his age and as new as he is to SX.... he will only keep learning more & more and progressing.
Also...in the big boy class last year he went top 8 in both SX races he did on the 350....
7th in Houson & 8th in Daytona and he beat some big name SX riders/Vets.
he won the shootout last year, and has just beaten dungey at mxon..... id put him down as my favourite to win the title
I know it's way too early to know which coast lites guys will be on... but is Sipes riding lites again this year? Seely and Tomac could be good again too indoors.
Personally, I think RV is the man to beat, especially if he can come out swinging early. He's in the most stable situation regarding his program/bike, and he's coming off a phenomenal 11' with a ton of confidence.
If CR stays red I'd put him in that same category, and with some misfortune on RV's part, he could possibly take it.
In regards to James, a comfortable,happy, James will be hard to beat. If he does end up with JGR, no matter what bike he's on, I think he instantly improves from last season.
RD is the wild card, in my opinion. Has KTM ever won a SX main? Have they ever won a SX heat race? Despite history, this feels a lot like the RC-to-Suzuki deal several years ago. If anyone can put that bike on the podium, its the two RD's. If the bike stays together, RD will be there at the end based solely on his consistency.
TC has already won at this level, we know he has the speed, and we've already seen a red-headed kid come back from a major leg break to win two championships, so it's not unprecedented. He's every bit as capable as the other four it he can keep himself healthy.
It's going to be another great season, lets just hope all these guys stay healthy.
But I think Stewart & Reed will be the next couple pieces to fall into place...then everyone else will fall into place after that.
(I think RD & KTM is a done deal from what MXA is saying)
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you guys are going to shit when you see Home Depot/Team22/JSE show up at A1 on Hondas.
RV's strength has always been to be able to up his speed if someone passes him, that and just raw ass, lock it to the stops and deal with it right wrist. RV's biggest weakness though, he overlooks and disregards his competition at times, and it seems to help fuel their motivation more than it fuels his unwavering belief in himself.
RD's strength has always been steady blinding speed and say what you want about his RC connection, he took a page out of Reed's book, look at the war, not the battle. His biggest weakness though, he wont drop the hammer on someone. Im not talking about breaking a leg, hes too cautious to run it in on someone when at times, regardless of the finish, he should do it to make a statement.
JS7, he can go, at any time, as fast as physics allows and sometimes over that. He doesnt look at the war, he knows he will win the war if he wins every battle. Its his biggest strength and his biggest weakness, there is absolutely no back down from JS, he will go faster and faster until he goes over the edge and down.
Reed, the only human to challenge two legends in their prime, and beat them. Reed knows you dont have to win every week, and if Reed is feeling it, RC and JS have nothing for him, both will go down trying to run that pace and we have seen it because it leads to all those straight up win threads. Problem is, like JS, its his biggest strength and his biggest weakness, sometimes, when its on the line, you have to step out to that edge, and Reed just wont as often, honestly if at all.
Which leads us to Trey. This guy can muscle a bike like RV/RC, pin-it and prey like, be agressive if you give him any daylight like Reed, and knows when to back down like Reed and RD, but also flat out get around a SX track as fast as physics allow and sometimes ala JS change the physics. His weakness, he gets in his own head to push and push that he looses sight of the fact hes in a battle every week, he can see the war, but he gets so focused on it, he looses sight of the battle. Im telling you now, if he can get just a hint of the relaxed MC attitude and confidence, he has all the pluses of the "big 4" and none of the minuses. Stamp it and thats not local boy biased.
Who's to say that Goose didn't go to 22 Motorsports because that's where Dungey is going and the whole KTM deal is exactly what they want you to think.... Just sayin"
"KTM’s Sport Director Pit Beirer has stated publicly that, "We are contractually obliged to wait until October 1 before we can announce our new signing in America." The concern is that Rockstar, which has been cited as one of the reasons that Dungey was less than enthralled with Suzuki in the first place, has the rights to him until the clock swings over to October 1, 2011. Once Dungey fulfills his contractual obligations at Suzuki, he will be free to be the subject of some anti-climatic KTM press releases (for the "I told you so" crowd)."
http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/THERE-IS-NO-MYSTERY-SURROUNDING…
Lets just hope everyone makes it through pre-season SX testing healthy and on the gate for A1.
Lets just hope everyone makes it through pre-season SX testing healthy and on the gate for A1.
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