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RC is not the greatest supercross rider of all time. Change my mind.
Eli is great but also not even in the conversation.
He raced 7 races in 2007, he was down 6 pts after the 2nd round, skipped A2 (round 3), then came back for San Francisco and won. Then he took off the next 3 rounds, etc. I'm not going to go through the whole season, but he won 2 of the 7 races against Stewart indoors.
He did win all 7 overalls outdoors though.
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Case study: Tomac could pass RC
Ricky Carmichael
260 - total professional races
162 - total professional wins
62.3% - professional win percentage
216 - total professional podiums
83% - total professional podiums percentage
21 - total professional championship series competed
16- total professional championships
76.1% - professional championship win percentage
Eli Tomac
232 - total professional races
73 - total professional wins
31.4% - professional win percentage
144 - total professional podiums
62% - total professional podiums percentage
19- total professional championship series competed
5 - total professional championships
26.3% - professional championship win percentage
Conclusion: No. Tomac could not pass RC in literally anything relating to SX/MX.
1997 125/250 SX
1999 250/450 SX
2000 250/450 SX
2007 250/450 SX
2007 250/450 MX
Technically you could include 1996 125 MX, but he only raced one round I believe (Steel City). So he lost his first SX series, last 2 series (due to shortened seasons on farewell tour). Other than that just those 2 hard years when he first went to 250/450 SX. Pretty unreal.
1997 AMA Supercross 125cc East Region
1999 AMA Supercross 250cc
2000 AMA Supercross 250cc
**2004 AMA Supercross 250cc - injury (did not intend on racing the full series)
**2007 AMA Supercross 450cc - part-time/farewell tour (did not intend on racing the full series)
**2007 AMA Motocross 450cc - part-time/farewell tour (did not intend on racing the full series)
I believe the most "unreal" stat about RC's career is that out of all the professional races he raced, his career win percentage is just over 62%. The dude won just over 62% of the time! That is beyond unreal! Winning over 62% of professional races should be impossible. RC ain't human; no way!
He competed in every round in the series and JS beat him but He won the AMA title. This was before it was one championship. It had 2 overseas rounds plus the AMArounds and I don’t think Daytona was included.
Reed won it in 2003 but RC didn’t race the overseas rounds.
RC won in 2005 but Reed and Stewart didn’t race.
In 2006 everyone was there.
Think about the amazing seasons we have recently seen. The most dominant in recent memory was definitely Roczen in 16. That would be the fifth best MX season of RC’s career. 02, 03, 04, and 05 were all statistically better. And Roczen was insanely dominant that year. We all still talk about it how amazing he was to just open up an early gap and cruise for the final 20 minutes. That was just RC every week for 10 years straight.
There is no comparison really. Villopoto was the closest we have seen since him but injuries derailed a lot of potential championships. Which is a whole nother aspect of RC. It was incredible he stayed so injury free and be that dominant.
Pit Row
If he is around a few more years and keeps dominating wins it isn’t impossible.
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