Bad look for Christian Craig

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RJ comes and does one race and shows way more speed and promise than CC has all year.
I dont get it, last year he was head and shoulders above RJ 
Justin Cooper jumps up and is faster than him too. 
Savatgy said he just couldnt get used to the steel frame on the KTM so maybe thats it, but its strange to me how average he is right now considering his last years supercross season and outdoors on the 450.

Would he be beating himself on his STAR Racing 250?   I think he would have been 

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3/5/2023 9:46am

I had him about where hes been finishing...I wasnt going to get bamboozled 

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drok577 wrote:
RJ comes and does one race and shows way more speed and promise than CC has all year. I dont get it, last year he was...

RJ comes and does one race and shows way more speed and promise than CC has all year.
I dont get it, last year he was head and shoulders above RJ 
Justin Cooper jumps up and is faster than him too. 
Savatgy said he just couldnt get used to the steel frame on the KTM so maybe thats it, but its strange to me how average he is right now considering his last years supercross season and outdoors on the 450.

Would he be beating himself on his STAR Racing 250?   I think he would have been 

He absolutely doesn't like the bike. He's gonna take a performance only contract at Club as soon as he can. Look how slow he is in the whoops compared to his Yamaha mate.

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3/5/2023 9:48am

Seems to me the ktm is the worst factory bike in the field now. What a turnaround from the 22 chassis.

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Craig's always been either really good or really not good. He blew it a bunch of times in the 250 class before putting it together.

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3/5/2023 9:51am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2023 9:52am

I was expecting some top 5s for him by now..watching his heat race yesterday when he was running in second for a bit his corner speed looked slow compared to others. Also, he didn’t look as aggressive as he was last year.

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3/5/2023 9:57am
yz133rider wrote:

Seems to me the ktm is the worst factory bike in the field now. What a turnaround from the 22 chassis.

Worse than the Suzuki?

Webb and Plessinger look pretty good to me

Barcia has looked great as well

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I was expecting some top 5s for him by now..watching his heat race yesterday when he was running in second for a bit his corner speed...

I was expecting some top 5s for him by now..watching his heat race yesterday when he was running in second for a bit his corner speed looked slow compared to others. Also, he didn’t look as aggressive as he was last year.

Not taking any risks till he gets his Club deal. He will be a different rider on a Club 450 mate.

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He looks like he is riding injured, real stiff and uncomfortable.

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3/5/2023 10:20am

Chistian's first full season on a 450 in Sx. been running around top 10 and hasn't gone in the injured list . . . Hope he can start putting in top 5 finishes

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3/5/2023 10:39am

Christian is just being who he truly is… an average dude who isn’t anything special. Someone who stuck around for 10 years in the 250 class to get a title. Don’t expect too much from this guy. 

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Christian is just being who he truly is… an average dude who isn’t anything special. Someone who stuck around for 10 years in the 250 class...

Christian is just being who he truly is… an average dude who isn’t anything special. Someone who stuck around for 10 years in the 250 class to get a title. Don’t expect too much from this guy. 

How do you explain the sudden loss in whoop speed mate. Hes not jelling with the chassis mate.

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Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family, and I think she is cool with the one title and to just hang out and vlog and let Christian be a 6-10 guy. 

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3/5/2023 11:12am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2023 11:16am

I think the Yamahas (or maybe just the Star Yamahas) have a similar effect to when they first came out with the thumper. Average riders start winning, etc. I think the bikes are that good. Maybe that's why the Deegan bike claiming fiasco went down the way it did. 

The talent gap in 250s didn't help either. 

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3/5/2023 11:24am
yz133rider wrote:

Seems to me the ktm is the worst factory bike in the field now. What a turnaround from the 22 chassis.

Have you discussed this with CW2?

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3/5/2023 11:28am

Why did anyone think he was a top 5 sx to start with? 

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3/5/2023 11:31am

In the last CC thread they claimed it was in his head and not the bike. Now it's the bike and not his head??

He, himself claims he is flying during the week. Does that sound like a bike issue? Not saying it's not but the vitards need to make up their mind.

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3/5/2023 11:33am

Seems to me AP7 looks damn good in the whoops 

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In the last CC thread they claimed it was in his head and not the bike. Now it's the bike and not his head?? He, himself...

In the last CC thread they claimed it was in his head and not the bike. Now it's the bike and not his head??

He, himself claims he is flying during the week. Does that sound like a bike issue? Not saying it's not but the vitards need to make up their mind.

The bike doesn't like to work weekends. 

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In the last CC thread they claimed it was in his head and not the bike. Now it's the bike and not his head?? He, himself...

In the last CC thread they claimed it was in his head and not the bike. Now it's the bike and not his head??

He, himself claims he is flying during the week. Does that sound like a bike issue? Not saying it's not but the vitards need to make up their mind.

The bike doesn't like to work weekends. 

Well that explains everything.

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Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family...

Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family, and I think she is cool with the one title and to just hang out and vlog and let Christian be a 6-10 guy. 

Very stressful having a rich dad who handed Christian multiple factory rides when he wasn’t really that good… wish i had it that bad. 

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3/5/2023 11:42am
MX Guy wrote:
Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family...

Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family, and I think she is cool with the one title and to just hang out and vlog and let Christian be a 6-10 guy. 

swe292 wrote:

Very stressful having a rich dad who handed Christian multiple factory rides when he wasn’t really that good… wish i had it that bad. 

He’s so brave 

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MX Guy wrote:
Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family...

Him and Paige have been through a lot. Those title fights were stressful for Paige. I don’t think Paige wants that much stress on the family, and I think she is cool with the one title and to just hang out and vlog and let Christian be a 6-10 guy. 

swe292 wrote:

Very stressful having a rich dad who handed Christian multiple factory rides when he wasn’t really that good… wish i had it that bad. 

That whole thing was so bizarre. The exact type of manufactured bullshit storyline that makes the show look ridiculous. Is that what the woke crowd means about the term "white privilege"? 

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That whole thing was so bizarre. The exact type of manufactured bullshit storyline that makes the show look ridiculous. Is that what the woke crowd means...

That whole thing was so bizarre. The exact type of manufactured bullshit storyline that makes the show look ridiculous. Is that what the woke crowd means about the term "white privilege"? 

I reckon they’d be the poster boy lol. “Christian actually had to go work a real job. can you believe that? Us? Work real jobs? The stress from that alone was so hard for us to handle. Anyways, daddy hit him up about coming back racing so we had to jump on the opportunity. It was so stressful having to start from the bottom like that” 

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Coop, Mookie, AP been ripping on that bike. RJ crushed it...I aint blaming the bike for CCs shit year. Hell even JB was flying last night

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3/5/2023 12:39pm Edited Date/Time 3/5/2023 12:41pm

It's mental for him.

 

He's usually the fastest guy throughout the week. Webb even said he can't go any faster to keep up with him some days. It's totally a mental issue and we've seen it before when he had to put a random red light on his handlebars as some sort of reminder to breath. 

 

Aldon even said the smallest things can bother him and absolutely ruin his day.

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It's mental for him.   He's usually the fastest guy throughout the week. Webb even said he can't go any faster to keep up with him...

It's mental for him.

 

He's usually the fastest guy throughout the week. Webb even said he can't go any faster to keep up with him some days. It's totally a mental issue and we've seen it before when he had to put a random red light on his handlebars as some sort of reminder to breath. 

 

Aldon even said the smallest things can bother him and absolutely ruin his day.

Ah so it is white privilege. 

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3/5/2023 12:49pm

Well he came off the best 250F platform in the history of the world, now he's on a completely different bike. RJ has been on husky for at least a couple years.

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Well he came off the best 250F platform in the history of the world, now he's on a completely different bike. RJ has been on husky...

Well he came off the best 250F platform in the history of the world, now he's on a completely different bike. RJ has been on husky for at least a couple years.

I wonder if Husky is as sympathetic as you?

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yz133rider wrote:

Seems to me the ktm is the worst factory bike in the field now. What a turnaround from the 22 chassis.

BobPA wrote:

Worse than the Suzuki?

Webb and Plessinger look pretty good to me

Barcia has looked great as well

Yes

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