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RV will get faster in the sand.. and so will Herlings, but luckily for everyone except maybe Cairoli, Herlings aint riding MXGP class yet lol
I can see RV being decent once Lommel rolls around, he should be on the pace of the main guys but probably not Cairoli. Although he is still too aggressive atm.. it will be hard to ride like that for two days at a GP. The track will be much rougher then.
I see top five or even a podium for RV at Lommel. He has a few months to practice yet!
I just wish they had a GP at Lierop too... the best track in the world!
And before you say i'm a Cairoli or GP fanboy... i actually want RV to win the title. Rv or Desalle, JVH or Paulin. I have no problems at all with Cairoli. He's a fantastic rider and a great guy, but i'm a bit bored with him winning title after title. Time for a change. I want someone else to win the title. And if that other guy is RV i'm perfectly fine with that. I'm a bit scared what the reactions on this board will be though
I think that every mx fan in Belgium and Holland is mad about the GP being in Assen. Everybody loves going to Lierop and now we will again loose one of the most beautifull tracks in the world and the GP will go to another man made track on a flat road racing circuit. Not one motocross fan is waiting for that race. Ofcourse, if there is no alternative, people will go to the race in Assen. But if there is a GP to be held 2 weeks prior to Assen in Lierop most motocross fans will go to Lierop and skip Assen.
And that is Ryan's problem. For him it will be completely new. He can win in Lommel, just not in his first year. It took Antonio several years to become succesfull in Lommel. And he lived for all those years almost next to the track. He went there almost on a daily basis.
Believe me, a podium in Lommel will be a fantastic achievement for Ryan. And that is more then enough. Going to chase after AC would just be plain stupid. Damage control, score as many points as possible. That is all that he has to do in Lommel.
A bit of rain would be fantastic for Ryan. In that case the sand won't be as soft as normally. If that's the case he will be closer to AC, i agree with you there.
And the World Championship has much more variables with tracks and different countries than the US Nationals... that's why it's the barometer for the best motocross rider in the world. That's why if RV wins it - and he could - then he will be the best.
Stop presuming superiority and being offended when others don't presume RV is superior to everyone else.
Please stop calling people the best in the world when they haven't won the world title yet, give RV the chance to win it first at Glen Helen, then call him the best...thanks in advance.
I only said RV can't win in his first year. He can win, but just not this year. Just because he has no idea what he is in for.
And yes Randy, every track in the USA develops different on a race day compared to how it develops on other days. The difference however isn't that big compared to Lommel.
You guys remember Michael Leib ? You should read his blog about when he came to Europe. Now i know that Michael isn't RV but in his opening posts he claims that he is a pretty good sand rider. After 2 years in Europe however he says that he hates sand. He just can't ride it.
You should read his blog about his first time in Lommel : http://mleib170.blogspot.be/search?updated-max=2010-08-26T08:01:00-07:0…
Tuesday, 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.
So with that said my results were 24-23 and I was pretty disappointed in that. I struggled all weekend long
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But saying RV will win Lommel is just the same as saying that AC will win Anaheim 1 next year, if he would ride it. AC won't win A1 next year, RV won't win Lommel this year.
So who is the best in the world ? According to you RV is better because he is a champion at both indoors and outdoors. Well... if being a champion at different sort of tracks is the scale then i must say that Ken Roczen is the best rider in the world. He can win races in supercross, outdoors and even in the deep sand of Lommel. No other rider is so versatile as Kroc.
As far as saying that RV is the best Motocross rider in the world, well that's yet to be proven, he's one of the best without question, if he wins the title this year then he will be rightly considered the best. Supercross does not come into it though when you're calling some the best Motocross rider in the world, the way it has gone now SX is basically a different sport, it's as much like Motocross as Enduro is, and not everyone rides it, you can't say that RV is better than Cairoli just because he's raced SX it doesn't work like that
RV is the best SX rider in the world, he's proven it in my book.
If Luongo wants his GP circus to turn into an actual circus, let him. But i'm not paying him to do so. I'm going to Lommel. And if 2 weeks after Lommel there is a race in Lierop i will go to Lierop as well. But i'm not going to Assen. No chance.
And what are you going to do ? You think about going to Assen ? What if there is a race in Lierop ? Will you still think about going to Assen ? I doubt it. And that is exactly why the promotors of the GP in Assen are against a GP in Lierop two weeks prior to their GP. They will loose a lot of fans.
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Calling the GP's a "world championship" sounds impressive, but it's really a European championship.
As to the topic I doubt very highly RV will get the overall win at Lommel, and also doubt he cares that much... he doesn't need it to win the championship. Guys like you need a European winner there though.. god forbid Captain American were to win
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