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a shot at going to the mxon. Trey was robbed plain and simple. If Trey said he understood why he wasn't chosen would you expect anything less from Trey? He isn't the type to throw a tantrum over it,,,,he is way too classy for that. Its wrong but there's nothing that can be done about it now.
than the top three in points. If he wrecks no big deal. If the top three wreck it means something. So
Eli has a somewhat advantage over the others. Nuff said. I do hope Eli does as good this time as his
last MXoN race.
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Interesting that he had the fastest lap of the race in both motos, and not just by a few hundredths. Same with Washougal moto 2, I think.
Fair enough that he goes over the Nard. Even today he was more consistent with a 3-3 than Trey. That's what we need.
I haven't seen this year's track - what's it like?
When I saw the track before last year's race i was a bit concerned. It didn't look like what most US riders were used to. Most US tracks have the SX influence - jumpy, 180 turns, cut and thrust style combined with rhythm sections. Not all, but influenced.
A lot of Euro style tracks are faster, don't have the SX style and put more of a premium on maintaining corner speed and momentum - you can see this in the way CP rides (and everyone likes to remark on how "odd" his style is compared to most others).
Our off-road guys tried to for years to make their style work for events like the ISDT/ISDE until they learned they needed to adapt to the style of the race course. They watched what the Euros who were going fast did to learn the faster way.
Just like riders who don't spend a lot of time on SX tracks don't excel on them, riders who are more experienced on a certain style of track aren't likely to excel on a different one. They may be competitive but not quite good enough to beat those who race those tracks all the time.
Hopefully this track suits the styles of the US riders... IMHO, of course!
Nobody will beat team USA this year. Dont matter it they send Tomac or Canard. Even with Shorty they got the job done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9XQ_Yc0ew
a little concerned as well ..hope its safe for americans..
France will be their closest rival. Paulin and Frossard are both capable of some good finishes but their MXdN will ultimately depend on Ferrandis scoring decent points in at least one moto - which he IS capable of doing, despite what some people might think. Personally I don't think they're actually that much weaker for not picking Musquin or Pourcel.
Just kidding just kidding just kidding!!!!
There are SO MANY injured GP riders that this year is going to be strange. We should see a few names we didn't expect to see in the points.
Canada may have a good year, too.
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but in my dreams there could be a team who will be strong too
Tomac can compete with Roczen and beat him, Trey hasnt shown he can don that on a regular basis.
Its a team event, the guys on the team are the one that will give us the best shot to win.
Musquin on the other hand has obviously missed a great deal of this season with injury and is only just starting to come back into form now. He's been fairly average for most of the outdoor series and he didn't have particularly good results the last time he represented France at Lommel in 2012 either.
Obviously logistically it's much easier to choose a rider based in Europe so unless there is a certain US based rider that simply cannot be left out I think they'll opt for guys racing GPs more often than not. Probably even stranger than omitting CP and Musquin was their decision to opt for Ferrandis over Tixier who is ahead in the MX2 standings. The only reasoning for that I can think of is that Tixier was fairly underwhelming when he raced for France last year and they think Ferrandis has more fire and determination in him..
Yeap, team USA by a mile.
For the podium, it is still quite open, Australia, UK, Italy, France, Belgium and possibly Germany have all good teams; but that will not be enough, there is always 1 or 2 guys in each of these teams not able to run the pace upfront.
Here I would not be surprised to see the USA go 1-4, 1-3 and 1-2 ! (if Martin gets the good spot on the grid)
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