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'I have no respect for Pourcel as a person'
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Pourcel has stated before that he doesn't like Paulin however lol At least Musquin will be there to keep the peace lol
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Four more years of winning that MX1 class will be tough though, as will staying injury free.
What he has done is an incredible achievement to come from of scilily and move to a new country, learn english, being so good in the sand, and dominate GP motocross.
Do I believe JH is a match for RV or RD on most circuits? No I don't.
@cheapsmack: JH is on the 250 and AC runs the 350, although i'm not sure like some people said he's really trying in that vid (low revs indeed).
august 10, 2010
"July 25th we made our way up to Belgium from a little bit of time in the sand before the Lommel Grand Prix last week. All the guys out here have been telling me how crazy this sand race is and to be honest… I had no idea on what I was really getting myself into this past weekend. During the week practicing at some local sand tracks I was riding pretty well and on the clock I was pretty close to the top guys here in the sand, yet did I know that what we were riding was pretty much hard packed compared to this weekend.
It all hit me after my second practice that this weekend was not exactly going to be a fun one for me. It was quite strange for me to not adapt quickly to a track like I have been doing since May when I first got here. Every time I swing a leg over a bike here I have been forced to learn different terrain and have been doing well with that. In my 10 years of racing I have never seen anything like what I saw this weekend. By far it was the roughest track I have ever been on, the most difficult sand I have seen, and the first time I felt like I forgot how to ride a motorcycle. Ha ha. Me and a few others coming from America have the same opinion."
july 30, 2011
"Here I sit in a lovely laundry mat in the center of lommel, Belgium. I sit here thinking about what it is I can talk about this week. Have you ever have words actually scare you? Ever have a date on the calendar you just aren’t looking forward to? Haha. I do! Well, I am here in Belgium, and have been now for 1 week. Love it here, just about everything except for that thing called sand.
For those of you that don’t know the sand here in Belgium and have not seen it first hand, I suggest you be sure to witness it before making an opinion. It is nothing short of brutal. In a weird way, I am excited for it.
Setting a new challenge for myself this weekend, to have as much fun as physically possible. For one reason and that being, if I do not have fun with it, I can tell you from last year… It “will” be hell.
Like i said, if you don't believe us, believe someone who should know.
That said i must however admit that i still think that team USA will win the mx of nations. Only because there is no other country that can put forward 3 riders with the same talent as Dungey, Bagget and Barcia. I'm not sure if 1 on those guys will be able to take the overall in the class that they will be riding in because of the state that the track will be in, but i'm pretty sure that team USA will eventually be on the top step. I don't really care who wins though. I'm just looking forward to another fantastic day in Lommel
Does it look like it has the same dirt? In '81 Lommel was like an average sandtrack just like you guys have with southwick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDlB98AZlv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fe2GJt9QWQ
And Herlings did not get beaten in the sand by Rockzen. No one beat him in the sand...
Also, no one said America aint gonna win. The chance you guys win a moto wil be significantly smaller due to the track conditions, that's what people are saying.
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Let's just see and stop counting on those eggs.
I dont want anyone to get the wrong idea, I respect the GP racers a lot, but I think saying the track is going to be a significant factor is wishful thinking.
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Jeffrey Herlings proved once again why they call him the king of the sand. Herlings was one of the first ones to reach the first corner, but he crashed in the opening lap and his teammate Jeremy Van Horebeek could not skip him and he ran onto him. Herlings had to fix the handle bar, the clutch and other pieces of his bike that were damaged from the crash, and he started from the very last position around thirty seconds behind the rest of the riders. However, that did not stop Herlings to catch the leader in the very last lap and win the qualifying race with almost five seconds advantage over Coldenhoff.
Have you ever been to Lommel Kartwheel ? How the hell do you know from some pics and some video's just how rough the track actually is. Blake Baggett said after the race that even the spectators at the side of the track just could not see how rough it really is. Only one way to find out, and that is to ride it.
Team USA could not be prepared for it. In 10 days time ? Impossible. Most Belgian and Dutch riders know how to ride this stuff, because they grow up in it. And other riders (Cairoli, Roczen, Rattray,..) learn how to ride it just by going to Lommel several times a week for more then a year to learn how to ride it.
Quote of the weekend from Kyle Chisholm: "if there was a track in Hell this would be it"
that is how he thinks of Lommel
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