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I wonder if he will change the way he approaches the races.
Will he be more like Dungey (and Anderson this year) in his approach, or will he continue with the Stewart mind set?
So far, the Stewart style hasn't paid off very well for him.
Will he be more like Dungey (and Anderson this year) in his approach, or will he continue with the Stewart mind set?
So far, the Stewart style hasn't paid off very well for him.
Seems to me he's on top of his game more than any rider in the class.
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Next year you will have MM looking to win, JA21 with winning confidence and maybe KR back to full fitness.
Now let me clear this up a bit. The fact that Tomac and Stewart are this great while being mentally weak is obviously a testament to how amazing the rest of their game is. It’s so good that they can and do overcome that aspect of it at times. It’s just extremely hard to do over the course of a championship when riders are at or near your equal. Stewart was widely considered the greatest talent we’d ever seen and he “only” walked away with three championships and spent the final six years of his career still being extremely fast and never getting one. Tomac, widely considered this era’s greatest talent (on this side of the pond anyway), is in his fifth year on the 450 and has one championship to show for it. A championship in which everyone kept tossing it away and he won it with one of the lowest point totals ever. Will he change? I’m not sure it’s in his DNA, much like it wasn’t in Stewart’s.
I know this is hypothetical, but if he doesn't go down at A1 that is a 27 point swing in his favor against Anderson. Add 25 points to Tomac (1 + 25 = 26 for the win). Anderson (23 - 2 = 21 for 3rd). On top of that, Tomac looks to get more points at Round 2 because he doesn't have an injured shoulder. Even if he just got 4th, that's 19 points, so add 46 points to what he has and then he is kind of in this thing. He had 3 other bad rounds, Oakland, San Diego (pants issue??), and Indy (crashed chasing Musquin).
I wont say he doesn't need to fix some things, because the race where he crashed riding with Musquin he could have settled in for an easy 2nd, but stuff happens. Look at how many guys are out right now, top guys, SX can be brutal.
I think just reflecting on the past 2 season may be enough for him to realize that he needs to work to salvage as many points as he can during a race if he crashes or has an issue. And as much as I hate to say it, he does need to focus on more urgency when he crashses. I thought his little thumbs up deal might have cost him 2nd last week.
He needs the mindset of JS7 in the first Terrafirma. (Dad said, you better) "pick that bike up and go!"
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JA21 will know Tomac is still faster week in and week out and he will have to ride out of his comfort zone to beat him or hope Tomac makes a mistake.
Anderson was 20 seconds off Tomac last week. I go to races or watch on TV to see the best riders racing for the win, not lay up and manage the points lead 20 seconds back. Did RC, MC, or RJ ever lay up. Hell no.
MM better not wait till next year to look for wins. I think the reason he pulled that shit house block pass on Tomac was because he panicked at the thought of facing DeCoster after leading the whole race and giving it up with a lap to go. The move was so bad he couldn't even defend it and instead tried to sell some story that didn't sound so bad. Like an eight year old getting caught in the cookie jar. Same as he did when he Let Broc Bye.
I hope Roczen is back next year. But right now Honda is paying multi millions for the second straight year for his bike to sit on the stand every week. Roczen is out this year and maybe for good because he tried to take out Webb over a twitter fight about a chick.
But according to the experts around here Tomac is a head case and needs some kind of moto pschycologist to help him find his way to a championship. Yet at every round of SX or MX he is the most likely to win.
Tomac is cut from the same cloth. He threw away the SX championship last year. He barely eked out the MX championship. He has a tendency to get flustered and he takes a long time to get up from a simple lay down. Probably out of frustration.
Those are all signs of mental weakness.
would you like to piont out where anybody has said tomac suckballs?
and who in fck uses a term like that?
someone who projects to much, way way to much.
the reactions to disscussions about riders from fanbois, nuthugger or projector is fckin hilarious..
keep it up mrsuckballs
Several people had him covered speed wise. Tomac, Roczen, Stewart, etc.
But none of those guys are even close in Dungey's league on the mental side of things. Mentally they are like back markers compared to Dungey.
Dungey wasn't skilled enough to match Eli's speed every race. But he was much more mentally strong. That's why he beat Eli in championships.
Dungey deals with adversity much better then Eli. And that has nothing to do with skill or big jumps.
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