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The kid did great during the first two rounds of the Italian Championship and was really close to Gautier Paulin.
Guys,Is Mike Kras racing all the GP's this year? I know it was his local track in the Netherlands so he had an advantage(Home track super powers as McGrath puts it.lol)but the kid looked fast. He went like 5-8 for 5th overall in his only GP. I thought even though he only raced his home GP the kid could for sure be a contender if he put the work in. Netherlands was his home GP but it was also by far the toughest GP and the kid did 40min no problem there.
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Cairoli ( absolute fastest MX1 pilot)
Poucel ( making up for a lost 09 season )
Goncalves ( training with Cairoli )
MX2
Paulin ( it's his year )
Musquin ( steady )
Roczen ( not ready yet to be a champ )
Wow tough to call...
1. Cairoli
2. Desalle
3. Philippaerts
Nagl and Ramon are the two most likely to break into the top 3 at the end of the season De Dycker, Pourcel, Strijbos Barragan all could but consistency could be an issue.
As for Albertson if Jimmy finished top 10 OA at the end of the year it will be a success.
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probably 3 from Paulin, Roczen, Musquin, Simpson and Frossard.
1. Musquin
2. Simpson
3. Roczen
But any of the top 4 could be world champion as could frossard if his sand and consistancy improves... Herlings, Charlier, Van Horebeck Osborne could all take race wins too.
Can't wait until round 1!
Mccread.. I agree that if Albertson gets top 10 in the series it's a success. Those that picked him top 3 have absolutely no clue how strong the GP's are and have no respect for the GP's. I think Albertson will be lucky to podium a moto let alone overall for the series.
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I sure hope Marc Deruever starts to step it up too. How can a guy be among the fastest in the world on sand(if not the fastest) and be a back of the packer on every other dirt? That's never made sense to me. The guy can hall ass for 40 min in the toughest conditions but can't last more then 20 min on perfectly groomed loamy tracks?..lol
Mike Kras is a really nice guy, but to put his performances into perspective, he went 29-20 at the Nations, and that is his level away from the Dutch/Flemish sand. That stuff is something special, Mantova is hard-pack compared to Lierop, and Jimmy Albertson said Mantova was the roughest track he ever rode. They make Southwick look like tarmac !
And forget Charlier for top placings. Yeah, he was second to Paulin in Italy, but half a minute back. That makes him 8th-10th in GPs. The Euro series is only a feeder class, the level past the top three is more like a local race, and the race he beat Roczen at the start of last year, the German was only using it for practice. Nothing over here counts except the GPs and the Nations. Hardly any top ten GP racers even race their national series any more: Cairoli, Philippaerts, Desalle, Pourcel, Musquin, Paulin, Simpson, Roczen - none of them will contest more than selected races.
Update Sunday am: Ferrandis qualified eight second down on Frossard at the French championship, and Herlings and Van Horebeek were both more than two seconds back from Frossard.
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And for those who think Roczen can't race sand, he just beat "Belgian sand expert" Roelants (the guy everyone thought was Cairoli when he practised in Socal) by 32 seconds at Hawkstone Park !
Funny thing: neither roczen or this Herlings kid had much against Charlier in the Emx2 2009,
and just cuz Aubin beats him in 1 moto doesnt mean he aint fast because Aubin has the speed to win a gp too !!
get some fuggin fact before u speak !!!!!
Last ten Euro motos of 2009: Charlier (18 years) 3 wins, Herlings (14 years) 6 wins. Fact
Portugal: 1 Roczen (14 years), 2 Herlings (14 years), 4 Charlier. Fact
Aubin GP 2009: 1 x third
Aubin GP 2008: 2 x third
sole career GP win: 29 July 2007. Fact
Roczen (15 years) has raced 10 GPs against Paulin (19 years) and beaten him six times, four times in their last five meetings. Fact
At Valence last month Roczen passed Paulin in race one. He didn't need to do so to win race two; he only had to pass the 09 world champion from France. In the race together withthe 450s Paulin rode his GP bike from 12th to 8th, Roczen rode a modified stocker from 15th to 10th to win the class overall. Fact
Musquin
Roczen
Simpson
Today at hawkstone he was going very good and went down on his shoulder hard....picked his bike back up and rode to second. That's something you don't see very often from him. He has the speed.
Barragan darkhorse for podium MX1,he can haul ass..
Fact.
Well done, hairy
The MX2 GPs in 2010 could be one to remember maybe one of the greatest series of all time with the guys riding at a pace that maybe only a Cairoli or Pourcel could match over the last 10 years.
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