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Tigga is a fast aggressive racer who never gives up, Jett learnt another lesson in the last moto.
On the last lap Jett was in the lead, thought he had broken Tim and backed it down, Tim was way closer than expected, he took advantage and burst through with a strong block pass.
Both showed the world that they are above everyone else.
I mean it is hard to beat the last race from Gajser. But i was also impressed by Tomac all weekend as well as just how fast Lucas Coenen was in that opening race until his crash.
Marcel Stauffer continued to impress me all weekend, he's had a remarkable season considering how bad his injury was in the off season.
All three Brazilian guys did well but particularly Lopes and Santos. The tiny Japanese 250 rider Haruki Yokoyama was also good, particularly on the last few corners of the B final where he made two great passes.
Andrea Adamo had pretty much no impact on the event. Josiah Natzke was also disappointing in his qualifier and then in the second half of the B final, was this the reason they initially selected an Aussie for that spot instead? I follow our sport in Portugal reasonably closely due to the time i spend over in the country and they also struggled a lot, Paulo Alberto usually really ups his game for this event but looked like he struggled with the track all weekend.
ah ok, yeah i think i agree with you. Coenen is so good and much younger. I just hope that he keeps his head together.
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Coenen langenfelder and DeWolf impressed me on the 250s , the way coenen was catching prado tomac etc on a 250 was insane , Haarups speed was there to just crashes.
450s mewse surprised me , dos santos was impressive and Gajser ( although you know he can be impressive that was quiet something )
Gasjer made the biggest statement. I expect him to win the title next year.
For me, it was two riders I’d never seen ride (watched on the tv), Ruben Fernandez and Kay De Wolf (should be sponsored by Wulfsport)….
Mewes had a great weekend was outside the top 20 in Moto 2 and rode up to 6th, like you said he broke a bone in his ankle early in 2nd Moto and soldiered on!
Yeah, like Justin Cooper at Red Bud in '22. Everybody putting him down due to few bad national results and the guy anchored the team.
It's not your best result that matters the most in this event, it is your least bad. Ton of pressure to not be "that guy" that ruined your team results.
After Lewis’ interview with Jorge on Friday, it didn’t convince me he was going to perform on Sunday.
Statements like:
“Goal for the year was achieved”
“Relax & enjoy”
“Be realistic”
“No riding this week”
It just felt like he wasn’t fussed.
He’d probably been partying a bit last week.
Honourable mention to Hamish Harwood! This guy is basically a privateer that works for a living in New Zealand. Qualifies 14th in the mxgp class then rides he’s balls off to 3rd in the B final to only be let down by an imploding team mate
Conrad was on rails great to see him show his real potential on the big stage.
23rd to 6th 💪
Hard negatory NO on your post.
The biggest fail in it is that you decided it somehow made sense to dog on AP after he put in two solid races that allowed us to podium the event when lot of folks had written the USA off for getting on the podium.
Proud of each guy for putting in the time and effort to represent their country.
Eli rode well, better than I expected and about where was in SMX relative to Jett and Hunter.
Disagree that he was as fast as Jett and Gajser - if he was gapped by 17 seconds in moto 3 and if he’d stayed with them and got ahead of both at the finish then USA would have tied for first.
I thought Gajser was most impressive with his 1-1 in the MXGP class. Kay de Wolf was flying as well in MX2.
Jett stepped up and pulled his team as did Tomac. Impressive rides by several riders.
Gasjer and Jett wouldve been a different outcome if the The Trophy wasn’t on the line in the last moto.
Plus Jett went back to back, took the worst gate and had to fight through from further back.
Im a massive Tim fan, but reality is Tim was fresher and nothing to lose going for it.
Jett was going for it as well. He had no idea the team locked it up. Moments after the race when he congratulated Tim, he asked if they (Team Australia) won it.
Kyle Webster.
I honestly thought he would be the weak link and make Australia falter. But he held his composure under intense pressure...
Pit Row
I believe Eli is pissed because he knows his stamina isn’t what it once was.
Yea one thing about Tim is he has a lot of james stewart in him, as in hes willing to put it all on the line and ride wayyyyy over his head in order to win… or crash. Thats why he has some of the most spectacular crashes over the years. Surprisingly though hes one of those guys who can have some absolutely massive get offs and not get injured very much, kind of like deegan. (Was it the neck brace? Lol prob not) Watching guys like that race is always super exciting because riding on the ragged edge does translate through the tv how fast theyre going.
Watching jett also have to hit that ragged edge was awesome he had some massive saves. It really did remind me about what was so special about watching james and rc race, both of them would be riding as hard as they posdibly could and making mistakes everywhere and just pushing even harder. You really could tell those guys were at the limit and we saw it with jett and tiga. I wish we got to see two guys putting it all on the line like that more often. What an awesome race that was, one for the ages!
Webster
Great re-hash.
Yes, Jett Lawrence is far and away THE best on the planet, with an honorable mention to TG.
AP was not a disappointment, he gave solid races. Coop raced his ass off considering being on a 250 and the family growing, etc. But he fought hard on that last section to keep off the extra point. Tomac led the way, and did really good, let's face it he's in his 30's,...I believe he did the best he possibly could have. That we came in 2nd is pretty dam good.
Coenan passing most of the top 450 guys on a 250 before he crashed was also badass!
I didn't even pay attention to Mikkel Haarup going down on the start due to Guillod crashing in front of him. He came back to 10th, god damn!!
I'm gonna be honest, I or we know that Kenny is still having issues with his knee or fitness and is just trying to race himself back to shape, but it still didn't sit well with me that Coenen and De Wolf just blew by him. 🤣
Both Coenen and De Wolf were impressive to race forward in this field, Coenen definitely has the early Herlings win or die mentality and it bit him.
An others Italian side, Adamo - last year World champ - was unvisible. Our great Julius Mikula nearly matched his speed.
My vote definitly goes to Karlis Reisulis.
I would have never expected a season like that from him. I always thought Janis (his younger brother) would have an amazing first 250 season after the speed he showed on the 125 last year, and would shadow his most experienced older brother quickly. In the end, Janis got injured and was off the entire year, and Karlis had some decent EMX250 results before jumping to MX2 midway through the season and showing some top 5 speed, which was definitly unexpected.
His sunday at Matterley was great, winning B class on the 250 in front of Isak Gifting was already a feat in itself, but racing the next two motos to finishing 2nd 250 in front of Laengenfelder, Vialle, Haarup etc... wth ? Props to him, I was very very surprise.
Other than that, the battle between Tiga and Jett was great. Does that make Tim the fastest in the world ? Nope, just like Jeffrey said, Tim id usually very very good here and he beat Prado/Herlings on sunday, that doesn't mean he would do it in other conditions. I would say Tim is an awesome racer (one of my very favorite in MXGP, I've met him a couple times and he is not only damn good on the track, he is also one of the most simple and kind pilot), but this was his best performance of the year and one of the best of his life. While Jett had a great great ride, but it is more common to see him ride like this. I would say Eli, Tim, Jeffrey, Jorge, Chase and Romain are more or less the same speed (Jorge a tiny bit better this year though) while Hunter is closing on this group, and Jett is over them. And another fact that should tell us how good Jett is, even though he was surprised by Tim on the next to last turn, Jett had passed in that race : Herlings, Roczen, Seewer, Febvre, Tomac, Tim, Prado and Hunter. All of these guys combined have 28 titles (regional, national and world). Would Tiga have been able to passe Jett if the roles were reverse ? If JL starts top 4, the race is done after 10 minutes.
Honorable mentions : De Wolf/Coenen, Haarup, Laengenfelder, Webster, Lopes and Mewse.
I have to say it again, this was the best raceday I have watched from home, ever, that goes back to 1979.
Overall most impressive, Gajser and Coenen edge it for me overall, Gajser going 1 in the first Moto looking very comfortable and and obviously 1 in the toughest race and the pass etc
Coenen showed amazing speed and was clearly faster than Vialle in the qualifier using Tom as a yardstick easily running him down on Saturday and passing so many top 450 guys on Sunday, gutted he crashed as it robbed us of seeing what he could do in race 2
Reisulis is up there too, ET for only doing something like 5 races coming into this and that holeshot and running upfront, but also impressive for many reasons was Febvre, he should get some credit, amazing speed in Moto 1 as he ran down Tomac but a rock in the eye from being so close denied him the pass and put an end to him seeing properly, he almost didn't race the 2nd Moto, hardly being able to see out of one eye may well have caused that crash
Great comebacks from Mikkel and Ruben 😃
Haarup, last to 10th in race two.
Fernández, 30 to 12th in race three.
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