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What's the deal? Does the bike suck? Lots of hot air comments in the last month:
"I'd like to think I'm the shoe in, or natural choice (for the title)"
"I'm very comfortable on JGR's Suzuki"
"Hoping the JGR Suzuki is the little extra ingredient to get the job done"
"Looking to prove the nay-sayers wrong about the Suzuki RMZ250"
"I'm supposed to be winning this title, that's what the team and sponsors expect"
McAdoo misses the first 3 rounds, jumps on an unfamiliar bike and beats him by 30 seconds and 5 spots both motos.
Oldenburg, recovering from a burnt ass, missing 3 rounds and all of last season beats him by 3 spots first moto.
Wilson Todd, who had never seen these tracks and new to the US nationals also beats him both motos.
His lap times aren't fading off at the end of the motos. The bike, if it makes it on TV, looks slow like it gives up a 1/10 second out of every corner and like Alex needs to over-ride it causing it to jump around like a pogo stick.
How do "we" feel about his title chances?
"I'd like to think I'm the shoe in, or natural choice (for the title)"
"I'm very comfortable on JGR's Suzuki"
"Hoping the JGR Suzuki is the little extra ingredient to get the job done"
"Looking to prove the nay-sayers wrong about the Suzuki RMZ250"
"I'm supposed to be winning this title, that's what the team and sponsors expect"
McAdoo misses the first 3 rounds, jumps on an unfamiliar bike and beats him by 30 seconds and 5 spots both motos.
Oldenburg, recovering from a burnt ass, missing 3 rounds and all of last season beats him by 3 spots first moto.
Wilson Todd, who had never seen these tracks and new to the US nationals also beats him both motos.
His lap times aren't fading off at the end of the motos. The bike, if it makes it on TV, looks slow like it gives up a 1/10 second out of every corner and like Alex needs to over-ride it causing it to jump around like a pogo stick.
How do "we" feel about his title chances?
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Also, this is motocross. When you’re the sole proprietor of your results you have to project a winning attitude because anything less will set you up for failure.
the suzuki is a lot closer to the kawi engine stock wise but its only in its first year of development by JGR so hard to know how far off it is.
I don’t get it. It’s like JGR is cursed.
JGR needs to get off Suzuki if they want to compete and be able to attract sponsors long term.
Pit Row
Too many variables in motocross to predict the outcome of a season before it starts.
I want the Martin brothers to win every time they line up as they are local boys, that being said there is a lot of speed in the 250 class this year.
But dont talk shit about Suzuki, lol. Every month there is a thread about the rm125 being sorely missed, yet no one wants to buy them.
Then there are the 450 is so solid threads, yet no one wants them either.
It can't help, there's literally nobody on either side of the pond to get settings from or a direction to go. I don't know how well Amart can test, but I can't imagine you can spend an entire week testing, and get the needed riding to be competitive for 30+2.
I really hate using a bike as an excuse, but I'm going to give him a pass. They either need to hire someone to figure that bike out, or he needs to bail.
Martin finished 2nd in 2018 in a depleted field and was 110 points behind the leader. He and AP7 were the only ones to score points in every moto in 2018, all the rest either missed multiple complete events, DNF'd motos, or had other issues and scored 0 points in a moto (or several).
If you look at his results in the last several races of 2018 (when many of the contenders came back from injury), they are about the same or just slightly better then he is doing so far this year.
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