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One thing you have to remember about Amateur MX in America (versus literally every other country), is our love for having 153 classes available for you to race. If we had just ONE 85 / Supermini / Big Wheel / Whatever you would want to call it - he would be consistently around the Top 5. In having ~ 6 / 7 85 classes, we offer a distorted perception of who stands where. It's kinda messed up honestly. We literally just did a video with LeBig (lebigusa.com) at Red Bud about just that haha
It is worth noting, that the Moto before - Fauser & Adams had lap times on par with Deegan - even Landen Gordon (on a dinosaur) had a faster last lap (as both of whom were going through traffic - and that was the 10-12 class). Cochran probably had a bad gate pick - forcing him to start from the outside - he should be up with Deegan. I wouldn't base your theory off of one, morning Moto at LL haha When the Supermini classes are off later - it would be safe to assume: Mark Finies, Ryder D, Towers, etc. will all be faster than him.
In being from France, I'll give you a comparison. Quentin Prunieres & Maxime Grau (last year) would run away from Deegan haha
I've seen a handful of titles lost in the first Moto (picking a 30+ gate pick, having to start from WAAAYYYY outside and work through the field). It is definitely archaic haha
Not to beat a dead horse, but one would assume this would be an opportune occasion to implement some sort of "Timed Qualifying" Sessions (on Monday). It would absolutely be advantageous for Amateur's to start getting used to that. Seems to work in every other Amateur / Development Motorsport Series (i.e. CEV Repsol Moto2 / Moto3, F3, F4, EMX 65, 85, 125, etc.). I want the record to show, I'm not telling anyone how to do their job - just saying - from the other motorsport industries I work in, it just seems to work and aid in the development of these amateurs.
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It did work out pretty good for Justin Cooper and Brandon Hartranft though.
Kitchen is hauling ass. Would like to see him mix it up with the other big names of the B class.
But yeah, WAY too many classes. The problem is these kids don't race locally anymore, so the only time they can be seen is at the big nationals. So if you have a big sponsored rider in the 85 class, you need a class for him to be top-dog in each year as he adjusts to the bigger bikes before moving to 250A.
It's stupid.
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