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To me, whats is the most annoying in saying and writing, is actually quotes from the riders when they say that the track "was not what they are used to" or "the track was not the same as our Red Bud from our national 4th of July" etc. I just read an article in MXA with Aaron Plessinger, whom I am a great fan of, where he is quoted just "The track was a different Red Bud. I have never seen the Red Bud track like this - ever. It was European Style".
(Above quote was Aarons answer on question; "What happened at the Motocross Des Nations")
I just cannot believe that these professionals say these things. What we teach kids at MX schools is that the track is the same for everyone that lines up on the gate.
I mean, even if Aaron was not familiar to the track, I have a hard time believing that Prado was more familiar... (for you who don´t know, Spain has mostly hard pack tracks and Prado is 17 years at age (with reference to experience)).
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He had a great ride going for awhile.
France don’t have the best riders in the world because they win the MXoN, and no American media ever say that, unless US wins. Let’s keep it in perspective, USA will win often again because they are great riders and the race gives them a huge advantage over other countries, they will always have the advantage in that event because they have more riders to choose from having such a huge country over the smaller nations they compete against. There’s a reason America never pick three riders from one state (the size of regular country) it would be harder to compete for the win.
If America want a Europe v USA team race, make it happen.... but then it would be much harder to win than a Nations team race because USA lose their advantage over the “Euros.”
And if a US rider wants to show he’s the best mx rider in the world, win the MXGP world championship, it’s the only way to show it, not the MXoN, US Nationals or a US GP that gives Americans the advantage every time, the world championship is the measuring stick, no other series.
Here in Lugo as a child he trained on a circuit,named Rubias of littel sand, which was never deep mud.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/JorgePrado61FansClub/photos/?tab=album&albu…
Then since at age twelve until seventeen, he has lived in Lommel, that's why he is a sand specialist, but mud has never been the best thing for him, nor does hard earth work very well for him , but since he has been living in Italy since the end of last year he has improved a lot in hard terrain.
Also these lap times comparisons don’t mean spit. if they didn’t even track lap times you’d never believe that they were that close. Because.....it’s a race. Who cares about lap times. All I care about is the checkered flag. You wanna calculate deficits then calculate it after the flag flies. The rest of laps don’t mean _____.
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Yes, with his speed I understand that he has ridden alot of other tracks then hardpack tracks. I just wanted to make a point that he and most other European riders did not know the Red Bud track of the race, better then the US riders.
I'm not referring to you with this comment, but it's funny how others offer opinions on why the American team faired so poorly without any way to justify that opinion but will criticize lap times that are at least an indicator. Were the other 5 teams simply superior? Did the Americans not give it their best for a thousand different reasons, such as; no pay, whining about the track being different, they just don't care, etc.? Opinions are no more revealing or even as much so as lap times.
The Americans had their butts handed to them by 5 other Nations. That's the bottom line.
Next Year in assen Will be very Difficult also for the usa, deep sand with ruts.
Must come early to Holland , and make a good test with help from the teams over here.
Something else, Mitch payton is not anymore with team usa, I understand because not his riders are there, but I believe his influence was very big.
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