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Once upon a time, they were working a track section at this track in San Antonio. Built a step up with no obstacles in front of it. Well, any fool could easily over jump it...watched a guy on a KTM come at it in 4th gear, jam the brakes on, release, then launch over it perfectly and nailed the turn.
Yep, he could have handled it way different. Hell, he could have moved over a couple of feet on the run up to the triple so there was no issue with landing on the guy in front of him.
It wasn't intentional. He didn't think ahead, was going up the face and realized he was going too fast and/or there was a gap to his right that he thought he could slide in to. He threw it sideways...too far by a couple of feet and got into KP.
When I watched the video it really looked to me like he was shooting for the gap. He overshot it.
I know I have had problems, tons of them on and off the bike where a little patience would have just made the situation oh so much better. It was absolutely just a racing incident, but damn!
And, uh, guys, not that you're gonna be impressed by this, since it is about the 10,000 time it's been said, but what makes this different is:
1) His (mistake, racing incident, watch-this-move, W/E) nearly got himself and someone else seriously hurt. In fact, I hear he may DNS A2 because of it. That by itself makes it noteworthy.
2) His own published description of the event does not acknowledge his causative role in what happened. That, by itself, invites criticism .
3) You guys that continue to attempt to excuse and defend his causative role in the event invite responses like this from people like me, who are not "haters". Just can't stand it when someone tries to elevate their own favorite star's bonehead move by distorting what really happened.
Bottom line #3: If Stewart holds his line and pace there, he's racing this weekend. Probably with the points lead. Now all you Stewart man-friends may be able to comment on this weekend is how bad JBS *woulda* smoked the field if he had just been out there racing. Who's to blame for that?
"It looks to me like Stewart knew Partridge was there and did it on purpose. The way he leans over and looks him straight in the face as he goes by in the air is because he was trying to give a 'lapper' some attitude for being in his way. He just screwed up by jumping too far over into Partridge instead of just ending up really close. So because he was trying to show attitude instead of just racing, he crashed and got hurt instead of winning."
Pit Row
A great take on what happened without all the bias you see in here.
[b]I am sure Jason Lawrence probably would have been dealt with differently due to his past problems on and off the track, and here's hoping we never find out and that Jason keeps everything on two wheels.
As for James' crashes, I landed on a guy in Pontiac in 1985 and Bader Manneh landed on me at the Rodil Cup. It happens in traffic!
DC
MX Sports[/b]
Take it from someone who knows people. (sorry to quote you DC)
Need to go for broke and put riders in danger cuz "I'm coming thru!"
I posted what he said because it was something I never would have considered, but Matt said, "that's the way guys like him ride. Like they own the track and you have to get out of their way."
I don't think Matt was saying Stewart purposely crashed into Partridge. He thinks Stewart meant to jump across and intimidate Partridge but went farther across than he intended, resulting in the collision.
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