Will Tomac?

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clem wrote:
I'm a huge MC fan but he really downplayed ET3 in the preseason interviews. Has anyone openly admitted to eating crow yet that wrote him off...

I'm a huge MC fan but he really downplayed ET3 in the preseason interviews. Has anyone openly admitted to eating crow yet that wrote him off this preseason? I know AC and JB had similar takes on Eli as well.

ZinAZ wrote:

AC and JB both said they fucked up underestimating tomac lol

I admit I did as well. I thought age had caught up with him and would not be comfy on the KTM. So glad I was...

I admit I did as well. I thought age had caught up with him and would not be comfy on the KTM. So glad I was wrong. 

I thought it was age too, but I guess he never really got along with the updated YZ. It also makes you wonder what the record books would look like if he had signed with KTM instead of Kawi all those years ago.

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Can see a few more outdoor wins coming too. I put him second best ever. 
 

Outdoors is what I'm really curious about. Tomac never looked off in SX except for his post injury/recovery year in 2024. Other than that he ALWAYS had ridiculous SX speed and it's super hard to bet against him this SX season. But outdoors last year it looked like he had nothing for the Lawrence bros except for two rounds. I'm so excited how he'll do on the KTM. Last year was really the first time that he said he wasn't super comfortable on the bike and I want to see if he can close the gap again. 

By the way it's so sick that Tomac still wants to race the full schedule. Not only did he not retire, he also still wants show what he's capable of outdoors. I'm sure he could have just taken the Kenny schedule if he wanted to but he truly wants to the challenge and beat the young guns straight up, can only respect that!

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clem wrote:
I'm a huge MC fan but he really downplayed ET3 in the preseason interviews. Has anyone openly admitted to eating crow yet that wrote him off...

I'm a huge MC fan but he really downplayed ET3 in the preseason interviews. Has anyone openly admitted to eating crow yet that wrote him off this preseason? I know AC and JB had similar takes on Eli as well.

ZinAZ wrote:

AC and JB both said they fucked up underestimating tomac lol

I admit I did as well. I thought age had caught up with him and would not be comfy on the KTM. So glad I was...

I admit I did as well. I thought age had caught up with him and would not be comfy on the KTM. So glad I was wrong. 

It's weird to me when people thought this way. I thought he looked absolutely insane in SX last year, might have been the fastest we have seen him ride until then, just really unsual mistakes from during the first rounds. If Jett and Tomac didn't get hurt that season, that would have been the battle for the championship imo.

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2/18/2026 8:01am

I do wish Jett was still out there. I really wanted to see Tomac at his best against Jett over the full SX season.(And I think they both wanted that honestly) 

At least we got San Diego last year. It was awesome to see those two work themselves through the pack that night, pushing each other throughout the race, the sportsmanship afterwards...more of those please!

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2/18/2026 9:49pm

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2/18/2026 11:50pm Edited Date/Time 2/18/2026 11:50pm

He’s got that dog in him, when he wants it he goes and gets it

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2/19/2026 8:31am

if they can get that ktm to be anything like the 22 yz450, its gonna be a great outdoors.  that switch to the new model was good for sx but never looked the same outdoors on it..  hopefully he gets the chase sexton hangtown outdoor set up and walks everyone.

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