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can a rider "choose" to keep a 3 digit number if he wishes?
91. #125
92. #1W 125 Supercross, 17 outdoors and on 250s
93. #15 SX/MX
94. #1 SX, #2 MX
95. #1 SX, #3 MX
96. #1 SX & MX
97. #1 SX, #2 MX
98. #2 SX, # 2 MX
99. #1 SX, #15 MX
Permanent Numbers Start
00. #1 SX, #2 MX
01. #1 SX, #2 MX
02. #2
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EDIT: Kirk, I think I misread your original post. It makes sense now...Eli is the only *current* single digit with a 450 championship. My mistake...
They just revamped the whole number system
Do away with permanent numbers
And run what you earned in 2018 -in-2019
If you didnt earn a number in the top 100
Than Run a 3 digits
Might be the reason why the number seven is still up for grabs; big shoes to fill. Especially when James already has the Seven gear brand, if you run the number seven and want to brand yourself with that number, how do you set yourself apart from that?
I just reckon they should be harder to get!
Pit Row
Chad Reed announces his retirement, but then changes his permanent number to 7 for his last year!
Yeah, I know it will never happen, but it would be fun to see what happened.
When it comes down to it, maybe yearly earned numbers gets MX back to some creative nicknames again. JS7, CR22, RD5, bla, bla, bla is so vanilla compared to back in the day with Hurricane, O'show, Showtime, Beast From the East and on and on.
McGrath had number #3 in 1995 as Larocco scored more points total and had #2.
In 1996 McGrath scored most points but won both championships so he had #1 in both series, so Emil was allocated the #2.
Then in 97 he was #2, he scored more total points than Emig who was #3.
McGrath got the #2 again in 98 but not because he scored most points in 97, because Emig scored most points but he had locked out both #1s.
1999 MC was #15, he got hurt 4 rounds into outdoors so scored 15th most points total. Had the #1 in SX but his national number was #15 and would get worse as he was sx only from 1999 onwards. Although you can see him run the #15 at glen Helen in 1999.
So this is when the AMA changed the system to permanent numbers going into the 2000 season. All the forum retards were pissed Ricky got to pick the #4 as a permanent number since he had raced one disasterous 250 sx season. But he had 3 x national 125 championships.
So maybe they let them pick based off who had won the most championships, the first year but that just set the order for picks:
MC #2
Brown wasn’t part of this, was still racing in Europe. Didn’t get #3 til 2002.
Emig took #3 but never raced with it.
RC picked #4
Larocco #5
Lamson #6 - never even won a 250 race
Albertyn took #7
Langston took the #8 in 04
Telescope took the #9 in 06
Then career numbers for non champions starting with highest points earned:
Lusk #11
Button #12
Tortelli #13
And so on
Anyway - if they didn’t let 250 national champs choose single digit numbers, we wouldn’t have anyone running them. 450 titles were locked out by Dungey/Villopoto/Roczen from 2010-mid 2017 - Eli being the first 450 champ other than them.
We would just have a gap in numbers with no one running single digits as there’s not enough 450 titles to go around.
I'm perfectly fine with that. Raise the level and earn it, not lower the bar.
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