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It's about time all these racers get a piece of the pie. I'm sorry.
Idiots are everywhere,in the states too.
Tomac, on any given day, is the fastest motocrosser in the world. Would not be surprised if he goes 1-1 with the fastest time of the day. This track mirrors his specialty.
I am having a beer for you tonight!
The crowd may have made noise when he crashed, but it may have been an excitement noise from seeing a big crash, not an excitement due to being excited that it was an American rider.
The American riders are rockstars, and I really doubt the European fans dislike our riders. If they do, they're the same kind of people who go to the nationals here in America and hang over the fence and flip off JS7 (remember Southwick). Those people will always be there, and they always make the fans look bad wherever they're from. Just have to look beyond them. The true European fans have a lot of respect for our riders, and don't want to see them injured.
(edit: I think) Any animosity comes from the frustration people feel about the almost constant negativity shown towards GP riders by American fans, and when people get drunk they let their feelings known. Most Europeans take an equal interest in American racing as they do the GPs and have a huge amount of respect and admiration for American riders, they just don't feel it's reciprocated and worse, GP riders are often treated with contempt.
Whether intentional or not Team USA end up distancing themselves a little bit at the MXdN (or a lot, such as Donington in '08) because of this perceived sense of it being 'America vs the Rest of the World' - a situation which is has been largely created by the fact that you guys are not afraid of telling us that you're better than we are, so naturally our attitide becomes 'alright, we'll show you' sort of thing.
Luckily it is only a small minority, but no one boos the American riders personally, it's more a case that they're booing what they stand for, and thats basically the crux of it.
Personally speaking, for me one of the nicest things I've seen for a long time was seeing Dungey and his girlfriend socialising with Cairoli and Roczen for a few days after last years MXdN. I know they were competing in that Redbull Super5 race or whatever it was, but it also sort of symbolised a softening of this stupid, competitive divide that exists between both professional series that complicates this great sport. I'd like to see more of that.
Pit Row
I quite agree. Talent, dedication, risks & rewards should be more shared.
Sure some get a little over Nationalistic but to be honest the worst display of Sportsmanship I witnessed was at Buds Creek including the announcers trying to lead a chant of USA,USA while we were waxing the field.
I am totally sick of this US/Euro thing.
I have noticed it is only one or two members on here that say dumb things to start it all off.
I grew up watching GPs but still have total respect for the US riders and I am quite a fan of Dungey.
To be honest I think all the riders from wherever have a mutual respect for each other, it is just some narrow-minded fans that cause all this sh1t.
I'm not sure how well he will do tomorrow, he wasn't really setting the world alight before his crash and I wonder how his style and his bike set up will work tomorrow as the track develops. He's very popular over here though
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