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If anything.....his last 1/2 season he rode out doors wasn't an explanation point on his career.....I don't know what is. He was going into retirement and went out undefeated. Just another reason why he is called the GOAT!
I'm also aware that it's not cheating under the roules where he was racing so it shouldn't surprise anyone really.
future...motocross is a filthy, stupid, wonderful, dangerous sport that, eventually, most of us become
less a participant and more the spectator, at...... Ricky chose a time and stuck with it. As much as i miss him
being around, he did the right thing - at the right time. His time.
CR took another direction. Everyone thought he would pursue auto racing. My prediction is his effort will be one of two Factory Honda efforts. In 2 to 4 years Honda will farm its efforts to both McGrath/Brooks and 22 Motorports. Honda's contract will be with the team.... not individual riders. The riders will have contracts with the team. 22 Motorsports will sign Trey Canard and Wilson. McGrath/Brooks will have Tomac and Barcia. More exposure for Honda at a top level.
Had RC kept racing he would be fighting for championships this year and beyond. He decided to pursue new goals.
"exclamation point".........I haven't had enough coffee this morning and my mind is on other things. At least I didn't misplace a comma or some gawd awful thing like that.
Sure, it doesn't matter, but WTF? Is this a practical joke that I didn't get the memo about?
Pit Row
Stewart finally had the edge on him in Supercross, though. And it was about friggin' time.
He just didn't want to keep training and riding so hard to stay at that level.
Windham makes me wonder sometimes.
If one ate right, did the clean living thing, stayed healthy and never lost interest.
How old could you go? How many wins or titles could one win?
A guy like Dungey, with a coach like Roger, that did it into his 30's,
think of the numbers a guy like that could run up.
I'm not going to speculate if he was using or not ( I really don't care either).
Just using common sense of todays sports and with how strict the AMA is on the rules lol
Ricky wanted to hold his foot on your neck every second and not give you one once of belief that you could beat him. Villopoto seems more content being smart sometimes and letting things come to him.
I think RC retired because of James Stewart, but in hindsight it looks like he would have still had his number for quite a while.
Ricky had won EVERYTHING there was to win. He had beaten every new challenger placed in front of him. He raced for 10 seasons, SX and MX. Out of a possible 19 championships he could have won, he won 16. Losing the 1997 125 East Coast Supercross, the 1999 250 Supercross, and the 2000 250 Supercross.
He worked his ass off for his entire career to get to the level he got to and to hold it until his retirement. This caused him to develop chronic fatigue syndrome. He never lost a championship to Reed, he never lost a championship to Stewart, he dethroned McGrath, he beat Ferry, Windham, and Tortelli in their prime consistently (no small task), and he completed three perfect overall MX seasons.
It's not how long your career is, it's what you do in that career. Carmichael never took an outdoor series off. Reed took two off, McGrath took the last few off, Stewart has taken three off, and several other guys like Larocco and Windham have taken MX off as their career is coming to an end. This will obviously allow them to extend their careers age wise.
Stewart is now in the equivalent of the 2007 season of Carmichael's. Obviously he's contested much less races than Carmichael and subsequently saved his body which will allow him to race longer as far as age goes.
The short version of this entire post would be... He had nothing more to prove. He won everything there was to win against every amazing competitor placed in front of him. New challenges awaited him that were much easier on the body and he had a family now, so he stepped away from the sport while he was on top. 10 years isn't a short career by no means, especially when you look at how he rode and trained in those 10 years.
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