MXGP Of Latvia: Race Day Discussion

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Aryen 5/7/2017 12:53pm
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Hand guards off Cool
Exactly! Wink
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BWRAAP 5/7/2017 1:01pm
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DP#201 wrote:
Herlings are 84 Laughing points down on TC. Today alone he made up 12 points.. let the hunting begin. Cool
12? He was 110 back before today.. 26 points. Biggest present he can get this year. Good ride by him. Very good to see Smile
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Bonanza69 5/7/2017 1:02pm
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Great ride from Anstie too.Cool
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Great ride from Anstie too.Cool
Simpson,Anstie,Mewse MXoN team Britain?

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Bonanza69 wrote:
Great ride from Anstie too.Cool
Yep wrote:
Simpson,Anstie,Mewse MXoN team Britain?
Depends on how Searle shapes up when he gets back. Still a long way to go.
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DeStouwer 5/7/2017 1:47pm
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Simpson broke his right hand in the second moto after crashing in the wave section and hitting a metal pole. He has surgery tomorrow.
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Question 5/7/2017 2:20pm
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Barrzy256 wrote:
From the MX Vice Snapchat sna[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/05/07/193411/s1200_IMG_1941.jpg[/img]
From the MX Vice Snapchat sna
Great. He got very lucky on that one, it looked horrible. I watched it delayed and immediately checked vital to see if he was ok, thanks for the update. It was one of the greatest weekends for racing but we saw some brutal crashes as well (i.e. Smith, Lieber, etc).
jorgechavez 5/7/2017 2:24pm
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Just saw Gajser crash and wow that was a hard one. Never seen someones neckbrace blow off in a crash, either.. crazy.
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DP#201 5/7/2017 11:36pm
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DP#201 wrote:
Herlings are 84 Laughing points down on TC. Today alone he made up 12 points.. let the hunting begin. Cool
BWRAAP wrote:
12? He was 110 back before today.. 26 points. Biggest present he can get this year. Good ride by him. Very good to see Smile
Your right.. the 12 points he made up was on TC, but overall standing is 26. Thats alot in just one GP.
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BobPA 5/7/2017 11:42pm
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DP#201 wrote:
Your right.. the 12 points he made up was on TC, but overall standing is 26. Thats alot in just one GP.
How is it 26 overall? TC is the points leader and he only gained 12 points...
VonSmallhausen 5/7/2017 11:55pm
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DP#201 wrote:
Your right.. the 12 points he made up was on TC, but overall standing is 26. Thats alot in just one GP.
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How is it 26 overall? TC is the points leader and he only gained 12 points...
1. Gajser, Tim 234
8. Herlings, J.124 - 110

1. Cairoli, A. 258
7. Herlings, J.174 - 84

Was 110 down on the lead, now 84.
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Crush 5/8/2017 12:26am
5/8/2017 12:26am Edited Date/Time 5/8/2017 1:54am
Is it me or does Kegums cause a lot of crashes every year?

Sandwarrior752 5/8/2017 12:32am
5/8/2017 12:32am
What a weekend. The track sure did take out some people, especially the rollers wow.

Here's a little update on Simpson: http://www.shaunsimpson.com/broken-bones-in-latvia/

Good to hear it's nothing major with Gajser, i was worried there for some time.

Red plate to Cairoli! But as crazy as it sounds i am not counting Herlings out for the title just yet. If he starts stringing together these 1 - 1 scores he could close the 84 points!

Can't wait for Lommel the GP i'll attend Cool
Sandwarrior752 5/8/2017 12:45am
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Seewer got a DNF in the 2nd moto, check his bike out Blink
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Aryen 5/8/2017 12:54am
5/8/2017 12:54am Edited Date/Time 5/8/2017 2:07am
Dominant weekend by JH84, fastest in free practice, time practice, qualifying race, warm up, moto 1 and moto 2.
Both motos by at least 13 seconds.

Looked a bit like his MX2 weekends Wink
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steve.hackler.1 wrote:
Deep field, the 461 all the way down in 16th with quality names in front of him.
Guy is so off his game 461''''h hoping is confidence comes back soon
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struth 5/8/2017 1:51am
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Sandwarrior752 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/05/08/193492/s1200_SEEWER_BIKE_BROKEN.jpg[/img] Seewer got a DNF in the 2nd moto, check his bike out :blink:


Seewer got a DNF in the 2nd moto, check his bike out Blink
Bugger,long way back from jonass now

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DP#201 5/8/2017 2:04am
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Sandwarrior752 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/05/08/193492/s1200_SEEWER_BIKE_BROKEN.jpg[/img] Seewer got a DNF in the 2nd moto, check his bike out :blink:


Seewer got a DNF in the 2nd moto, check his bike out Blink
struth wrote:
Bugger,long way back from jonass now
TKO will close that gap
Motocross83 5/8/2017 3:09am
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Yeah that was scary. A bummer for the championship but on flip side he's lucky with what he got away with.
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agn5009 5/8/2017 3:23am
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I was really pulling for Seewer this year too.
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DeStouwer 5/8/2017 5:49am
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Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes?

Gajser, Tonus, Simpson, Lupino, Seewer, Lieber, Van Doninck, Covington, Cervellin, Bernardini, Kouwenberg, Pichon... all went down (some more than once), and hard. A lot of them could've got a lot worse than they are now.

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roninho 5/8/2017 8:14am
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agn5009 wrote:
I was really pulling for Seewer this year too.
It is a long season to go. 7 GP's in, still 12 to go. Losing 25 points in moto 2 hurts, but Jonas will get some dnf's as well.

imo up till now the biggest difference seems to be that the KTM boys get a top 5 start every race (or so it looks like) while Seewer has work to do.
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Motofinne 5/8/2017 8:21am
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DeStouwer wrote:
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes...
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes?

Gajser, Tonus, Simpson, Lupino, Seewer, Lieber, Van Doninck, Covington, Cervellin, Bernardini, Kouwenberg, Pichon... all went down (some more than once), and hard. A lot of them could've got a lot worse than they are now.

The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always tricky but it seemed even worse this year?
Muscle-Milk-KTM 5/8/2017 8:54am
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What happened to Rubini in EMX250? Injured or didn't qualify?
crusty_xx 5/8/2017 9:55am
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By the way, we've had 5 different winners in both classes, in 7 races. Pretty awesome
Cairoli, Gajser, Simpson, Herlings, Paulin
Jonass, Seewer, Olsen, Prado, Covington

And some potential winners haven't even won yet
Van Horebeek, Bobby, Nagl, Desalle, Febvre
Lieber, Paturel

Pretty cool...
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Yep 5/8/2017 9:57am
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DeStouwer wrote:
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes...
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes?

Gajser, Tonus, Simpson, Lupino, Seewer, Lieber, Van Doninck, Covington, Cervellin, Bernardini, Kouwenberg, Pichon... all went down (some more than once), and hard. A lot of them could've got a lot worse than they are now.

Motofinne wrote:
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always...
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always tricky but it seemed even worse this year?
Lotta traffic on the weekend, they prepped it different this year and the deeper rip and extra water left some tricky hardpack sections exposed when they dug through the top sand. If Herlings kept saying it was "gnarly" it had to be roughWink
Edge-Of-Adhesion 5/8/2017 10:34am
5/8/2017 10:34am Edited Date/Time 5/8/2017 10:36am
I gotta say I thought that the wave section would cause some injuries from watching the first qualifying race and I was right. The waves are too deep for the speed they go in my view.

Don't get me wrong, I think all MX tracks should be tough to get around and have difficult/challenging sections but it was blindingly obvious the waves went beyond that and were dangerous.

It was clear that at least someone was going to get hurt and it's lucky there were no serious career ending injuries.
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PastranaWho 5/8/2017 11:40am
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DeStouwer wrote:
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes...
Track was very dangerous imo, a lot (and i mean A LOT) horrendous crashes and injuries troughout the weekend. Bad track prep or too much classes?

Gajser, Tonus, Simpson, Lupino, Seewer, Lieber, Van Doninck, Covington, Cervellin, Bernardini, Kouwenberg, Pichon... all went down (some more than once), and hard. A lot of them could've got a lot worse than they are now.

Motofinne wrote:
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always...
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always tricky but it seemed even worse this year?
Yep wrote:
Lotta traffic on the weekend, they prepped it different this year and the deeper rip and extra water left some tricky hardpack sections exposed when they...
Lotta traffic on the weekend, they prepped it different this year and the deeper rip and extra water left some tricky hardpack sections exposed when they dug through the top sand. If Herlings kept saying it was "gnarly" it had to be roughWink
That wave section is high speed with gnarly ruts, should be changed up for next year. Maybe put in a tabletop or so.
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Motofinne 5/8/2017 11:51am
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Motofinne wrote:
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always...
The track looked gnarly. Some of the high-speed sections were in really bad shape, especially from the two tabletops to the stepdown. That section is always tricky but it seemed even worse this year?
Yep wrote:
Lotta traffic on the weekend, they prepped it different this year and the deeper rip and extra water left some tricky hardpack sections exposed when they...
Lotta traffic on the weekend, they prepped it different this year and the deeper rip and extra water left some tricky hardpack sections exposed when they dug through the top sand. If Herlings kept saying it was "gnarly" it had to be roughWink
PastranaWho wrote:
That wave section is high speed with gnarly ruts, should be changed up for next year. Maybe put in a tabletop or so.
That wave section has been there for years, Cairoli crashed and got injured in that section at the 2014 MXdN. I think the obstacle is fine but the waves has to be in better shape than that.

Those ruts were insane.

High speed section, waves with deep ruts and in a "corner"(i don't know what to call it but it's not a straight). It's a recipe for disaster.

Get the ruts out of that equation and there isn't a problem for these worldclass riders.

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