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You haven’t had the best luck at Motocross des Nations, mostly crashes, over the years. You’ve got to be pretty pumped that you have finally shown "Hey, I’m just as fast as these guys."
Yeah, for sure. The first time I came to America, Budds Creek, there were a lot of boards making fun of me, "Where was Cairoli" and stuff like this. I never talk bad about America. I think America has the best overall riders. It’s also the biggest country, so if Barcia is injured or Stewart is injured, they can pick another one that is almost just as good. In Italy, with Phillipheart’s injury, we don’t have so much choice. I think it was good. A fifth overall for Italy, it’s okay. I think we could have finished third. Maybe next year, we’ll have more luck.
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Not even interested in what biased 'journalists' like Geoff have to say, even if it's pro GP in the GP vs AMA crap.
Who is this Geoff guy anyways? He must be Euro and he seems to have been beaten down in the past and finally got his chance to dog the Americans, it would work if Germany won 7mxons in a row, just because there are a few riders good at one track they have practiced and raced at does not mean times have changed.
i watch the GP's on motors tv,
watch AMA supercross on motors tv,
watch AMA nationals on the net,
follow the Belgium ,Dutch, Australian and Canadian nationals.
in the States the racing is really intens, these riders fight for every spot during all the race,
if the European riders come to the U.S. they do not that bad,
talkin' bout the last few years, Pourcel,Rattray(SA.),Searle,Musquin,Roczen,Reed(AUS)
even for one race Desalle, De Dycker and De Reuver did ok.
there are not so many riders from the States that come and race in Europe anymore,
but in general they perform at the same level as they were doin' in the AMA series.
Osborne i hope has a very good next year, like his riding a lot, got a lot of injuries here but is very fast.
Leib did ok, that year with the Husky was very difficult i think, but this year we saw some flashes from his riding skills.
hope to see him again next year without injuries.
Brown raced here also a few years and was on the same pace as in the U.S. for my feelings.
the Alessi brother raced also a few pre-season race in Europe when they turned pro in the U.S. and performed both pretty good. (again on the same level as in the States)
the bottem line is : both U.S. and European have some amazing fast racers, on 1 race you can't possible say who is the fasted one. What i would love to see is that some races (say 6 or so) would overlaps, that is let 6 AMA nationals cound as GP's also, that way the best European riders race against the best AMA riders on different races, that would be a dream come through :-)
If it had been a mud race and we (USA) got beat that badly, it would be easy to rationalize that it was a crap shoot and anyone could have won. But instead, it was a gnarly, brutally rough, old school track that quickly separated the men from the boys. That's what hurts. The AMA crew can't claim to have the best riders in the world after that performance. Just my opinion but, I am thinking it will end up being the best thing to happen to the sport in a long time (for riders on both sides of the pond)...
Pit Row
TL:DR
Geoff Meyer not a fan of AMA.
Americans: 11 wins from a total of 24 riders represented
Euros: 10 wins from a total of more than 500 riders (& 3 wins two days ago at the sandy euro track of Lommel)
New Zealanders: 2 wins from a total of 24 riders
Australians: 1 win from a total of 24 riders
Motocross Of Nations wins
USA: 7 (from a total of 24 riders)
Euros: 1 (from a total of more than 500 riders) two days ago at the sandy euro track of Lommel
Notes:
- The best Motocross racer in the world Ryan Villopoto miss three of the last four editions of the MxoN, with him the US will have 3 or 4 more wins
- Zero Euro win in American soil (2007&2010)
Europe is Europe... AUS and South Africa is quite a long ways from Europe so lets call a spade a spade here.
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