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According to a lot of people tomacs start of mx was the fastest anyone has ever gone. What's your thoughts on that?
Yes, we had a extreme amount of interest in Ryan, from a business standpoint how could you not? You know he is always going to be in contention every year. Although we had talks, nothing ever materialized but that's okay, there's a lot of moving parts that have to happen to acquire someone of his caliber.
As for advice for CR or JS, I just want them to stay safe. They have came a long ways and for this point in their career in my opinion they need to stay healthy.
I have a decent relationship with Stefan, we both have an incredible amount of respect for each other. it was very cool to see him at my last SX race as that was a nice surprise.
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Hardest fought titles would be 2003 SX and 2006 SX.
Look forward to seeing you at RCU as well,
167 came from the number that NMA gave me when I attended my first amateur national, so i just stuck with that from that point on.
Second one I was thinking, "Nice, I'm outta here boys."
And the third, "Oh no, this is gonna be bad."
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My question for you is, What was the reason for the switch from Kawi to Honda and from Honda to Suzuki?
I think it is really cool for you to come on here and mingle with the common folk here on Vital!
I would say it's like willingly checking yourself into the looney bin for a week just for grins!
How close have you remained with Mitch both after you left kawasaki and now that you are a fellow team owner? I ask this because I noticed you in the PC pits at MEC talking with him for quite some time ( I wasn't one of the drunks yelling at you to take a selfie!) and was curious at what type of info do you guys share with eachother in the padock?
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"Nice, i'm outta here boys"~ Ricky Carmichael
Quote of the year!
That Pic with that quote is EPIC wish I had a Poster with RC sighning it that way...Fkin Love it!
Now go tuck those future Champs in young Man!
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Obviously you do the RCU days now so you probably get some idea but I hope you're aware of just how many fans you have all over the world? You may have had a few long time duals with 'our lot' over the years but I think it's fair to say you were a huge inspiration to us Euros.
I'm exactly the same age as you and remember, as an 8 or 9 year old, flicking through a Kawsaki brochure and seeing this little ginger haired kid sitting on a 60cc with 'Carmichael' written on the back of his shirt, from then on I enviously watched your career progress to the pinnacle of the sport thinking it could have been me (ha ha). I saw you race in '98 at Foxhills but unfortunately never again. I was gutted when you had to pull out of the 2006 MXdN, it would have nicely book-ended the Carmichael era for me personally, but I still get buzz when I think back to the reception the crowd gave you when you were interviewed up on the tower - I'd say a large proportion of that crowd had travelled from all over Europe especially to see you. I'm not an overly sentimental person usually but that felt like quite a special moment at the time.
Anyhow, I don't really have a question as such, like all the other soppy gits on here I just wanted to share my appreciation for the enjoyment you've given all us mere mortals over the years and wish you all the best.
(...how the hell you managed to hold on during some of your epic battles over the years is just beyond me!)
1) So during the RedBull Straight Rhythm event earlier this year, they featured a bit with Pastrana talking about how important scrubbing is these days and how it's changed our sport over the past few years. Since your prime was around the time that scrubbing began to become popular, did you have trouble adding the scrub to your repertoire since you hadn't really grown up riding with it like kids do these days? Or did it just come naturally for you? Or did you find you didn't need to scrub every single jump (if at all...)?
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2) IF the AMA added a 125cc two-stroke class, who would you hire as your 125 rider(s)?
With all the mechanical problems Kurt Busch and others had in that car that year you were best to sit it out. IMO.
Nothing but problems with that car and if you were in it?
sponsors would say it was more driver than car....No disrespect but you know the media/sponsors better than I
I thought I did pretty well with all things considered and reasons a lot of people aren't aware of. There are a lot of moving parts in any type of NASCAR racing. One thing I needed was to be on a big team with a lot of experience that I could fall back on due to my lack of seat time and inexperience. I never got that opportunity. Although I'm still grateful for the one I got, please don't get me wrong.
" That answers my first question
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