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Awesome attempt to salvage a title by JH, awesome win by Tixier.
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I freely admitted I could be wrong about JH making and finishing both motos, my hats off to him for that...but I was right that the pain was going to slow him down a whole lot and that taking the title was practically not going to happen.
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Never took care of a wicked MX rider accident yet though.....all in due time. All in due time.
Yeah, so just remember this: People are awesome.
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Herlings comment on fb.
First of all congratulations to Jordi Tixier for winning his first world title this year. Above pictures from the X-Ray we took here saturday evening in Mexico. So u guys can see where I had to ride with and what risk I was taking. Saturday I was in a lot of pain, because thursday at a practice track I got a big impact on my leg again and to be shure we wanted to take this X-Ray so we could race sunday with no stress. But as u can see the bone was far from healed and also we found out from the impact we got 2 torn muscles. But I am not a quiter, I wanted to fight for every point possible. I felt every bumb, jump, left turn, hole, everything! I basicly felt like I got shot in my leg 50x a lap... I lost the title with 4 points, with 4 laps to go. But I showed I had a big heart because there was a realistic chance I could brake my femure again because the bone was far from healed. Especially with all those big jumps, getting big impacts on my leg. 2014 is over, it was a shit season. Loads of badluck.. But 2015 will hopefully be better and I wanna try to fight for my 3rd world title. This one I also disurved after breaking and racing with a broken leg and missing 4 Gp's.. But it didnt happen unfortunetly. I wanna be dominant again in 2015 and getting that championship back. But first lets get healthy. I wanna thank all my fans for the great support. I took this risk for you guys to prove you all I am the real deal. Thanks everyone. Love u guys. Again, Congrats 911!!
Herlings left Europe as a teenager and on the flight to Mexico he had his 20th birthday, leaving behind his sometimes troubled teenage years to became a man this weekend, Massive rspect for what he did, the stuff of legends. Hope he heals up fast and comes back stronger next year!
Sure, JH broke his leg and that's racing but the fact that if they had tied and JH would have won on race wins surely proves that JH is the better rider?
When you take JH's races competed in to races won ratio he's wayyy ahead.
And to be honest, I would hardly describe JT's ride yesterday as anything close to epic. He was under real pressure all first moto, and made some pretty big errors second moto and was lucky to get away with it.
I agree that he's the best rider to make the most of the circumstances, and as far as winning a championship goes that's what you need but I don't think he's the best MX2 rider over a season.
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I can't believe Herlings not only rode, but was as competitive as he was. That was a race for the ages.
No doubt Herlings is the best 250 rider in the world right now, but there's more to a championship than that.
Tixier's ride was epic considering what all was on the line. That's the best he had ridden all season. He stepped up under pressure.
If Herlings makes the trip to Brazil and scores a few points then this whole ordeal most likely doesn't occur.
He had no choice but to ride injured, as many other guys do (but they don't all finish with a world title!) and because he raced pretty much every week-end, it took more time to recover.
He eventually made his way back onto the podium from round 4 and missed it only twice (finishing 4th / 5th those times) since.
Besides Jeffrey, he is the only to one to win two GP's this season, including the all-important, super-stressing "grand finale" (with his recently paralyzed little brother in mind too).
He also won the most motos (besides Herlings, of course), a total of 3 (Gajser has 2, Ferrandis, Tonus, Anstie & Coldenhoff 1).
He finishes 46 points ahead of 3rd place (Febvre), and 73 points ahead of Ferrandis.
Yes, his last race was his best and maybe will be a turning point in his career.
Tixier was hired by KTM to cover their back in case something happened to Herlings.
Nothing happened to JH last year and Tixier gotecond.
Something happened to Herlings this season and Tixier delivered just what he was hired for.
That doesn't make him the best rider in the class : everybody knows Jeffrey is.
But one can say JT's season was very solid, given the circumstances.
You would think after getting nerve damage in his shoulder last year when he raced Lierop when Everts didn't want him to Jeffery would have learned something. To be clear I am not a hater but just someone that realizes there is a helluva lot more to life than racing MX.
Not when your a teenager world champ there's not.
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