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I'd like to think that IF all things are equal, '06-'08 James (that era bike) vs. '17-'18 Eli on current era bike, that Eli would win the lap time game...Eli wins that pretty easily right?
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RV/RC > Stewart > Tomac, Jesus that was hard to type out I only put RV and RC ahead because they were more consistent.
RC had to deal with JS which made him alot better, RV had to deal with Stewart and dungey.
Herlings has been at that speed or is.
In 2011 an aging Chad Reed gave RV and Dungey everything they wanted and more. He was leading the MX championship before he visited the moon at Millville.
Let's remember this is the same Chad Reed that had absolutely nothing for RC outdoors, ever. Carmichael went 24-0 against Reed in his prime... Villopoto would never do that.
JS qualifies fastest
RC takes the overall with a 2-1
JS wins moto 1 then crashes while leading moto 2 and salvages a 3rd
ET gets 2 10th place starts and goes 3-2 on the day
And this pains me to bring up, being a guy that loved the other two......
Pit Row
Watch him make Tomac look slow.
The absolute best season of recent memory is probably a debate between 16 Roczen, 12 Dungey, 13 Villopoto, and maybe 18 Tomac. Carmichael alone has 4 seasons better than their very best one.
It’s not a debate guys. It’s just not.
And I don't "dog" on any US riders. I am American and will certainly be rooting for our guys come MXDN. I simply believe Herlings is faster than Tomac. I'm not sure why that bugs you so much.
We will see who wins at the MXDN. But some people will make excuses no matter what. Even if Tomac holeshots and Herlings starts at 15th, runs him down and wins the excuses will still be out in full force. FYI, I hope Tomac wins the MXDN because I want our guys to win the event.
I have no doubt Eli now or early 2015 is going RV/RC/JS warp speed... but does that mean I think all things being equal he’d beat them in a race?
No it does not.
No one ever really got past the mind-fuck of lining up next to the Goat. I think RV could have... but RC certainly doesn’t give you any reasons on his CV to doubt him.
Kinda like Kenny right now.
The perfect MX season happend for only 5 races, the 2007 MX season. After 5 races and multiple Stewart mistakes and crashes they were only separated by 15 points. The 26 year old RC won 7 motos and the 21 year old Stewart won 3 and crashed all by himself at Red Bud while leading at the end of the race in what would be their last race together. Point is, it was close. James in 06,07 pushed RC into making more mistakes in a two years than a careers worth of races against Reed and Windham.
RC retired and Stewart thought he was gonna be unbeatable and his Ego defeated him. RC retired because of Stewarts abiltly to take risks, admits it in Sam Jones interview no longer wanted to take the risks with jumps in SX. Which is a shame because their outdoor battles are still the best ever IMO.
ET vs KR vs JH would be the perfect season now. But Herlings was still on 250s when Roczen was 100% and when Roczen was 100% in 16 Tomac wasn't quite there and in Tomacs amazing 2015 run Roczen was coming off injures and now Tomac and Herlings are at 100% Roczen is not. A cruel sport as far as match ups go.
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