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From RacerX, Stewart on next season...
Q. It’s the question of the last couple of weeks, but are you going to be back next year to try and lead 300-and-something again?
A. I want to. You guys don’t understand. For me, there’s going to be some changes and stuff, and I’m excited about it. I would like to come back and do my deal, but we’ve just got to see what lies ahead and make the best of every situation. I feel good. I definitely want to come back to run the number-one plate and try and go 48 and 0.
Q. It’s the question of the last couple of weeks, but are you going to be back next year to try and lead 300-and-something again?
A. I want to. You guys don’t understand. For me, there’s going to be some changes and stuff, and I’m excited about it. I would like to come back and do my deal, but we’ve just got to see what lies ahead and make the best of every situation. I feel good. I definitely want to come back to run the number-one plate and try and go 48 and 0.
(I don't like yamis. The ergo's are too cramped)
Q: Please come back and race the nationals or I'll kill myself
A: Dude, try not to look so desperate. It's pathetic.
He is not coming back to the Nationals.
Too bad. He was pretty good at them.
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I've been a Bubba fan from day one. If he misses one outdoor season for any reason other then injury I will be seriously disappointed as a fan.
I enjoy SX immensely,but,the outdoors is what this sport is all about. Its where all of us started participating in this great sport. The talk of SX only deals for top guys who are still in their prime needs to vanish. Money has, and always will cause problems.
I really think the guys on here who talk about combining the series in some way , shape, or form are really onto something. Each series is great in its own right, we need both.
His camp could be letting the idea that he won't be back for the Outdoors in '09 run rampant and then announce that he will return to the outdoors and be the hero for returning. He'd probably gain more fans in the process. Shoot maybe he'll not even announce anything about MX until SX '09 is almost finished and ride out of the Yamaha rig for the Summer.
Then again he might be ready to cut his season down to 17-20 races a season from 32 or so.
He says he likes records and 48-0 has never been done - of course next year, if he returns, he'll say he never even thought about going 48-0.
Personally, I'll be very surprised if he doesn't face RV and his old team head on next year for a full MX series. The only way RV is going to be closer than 15 seconds to him after 30+2 is if James wants him to - and that will be a very respectable accomplishment in RV's 1st season.
Yes, James will have to bring his A game to deal with Ryan, but I think way more often than not James will come out on top. Actually, I think it's easy to underestimate James' speed, skill and desire to win.
After watching James going from a last place, dead engine start on a 125cc 2-stroke against a field of 250cc 4-strokes and James and RC at Budd's last year go faster than I've seen anyone go on an MX bike I don't question his speed, skill and desire to win.
That said, I will have no problem admitting I was wrong if that's the case.
Pit Row
MX...I think it's wishful thinking by some to think that anyone will have James speed next year.
I didn't say or even allude that James will win all 24 motos next year. Who knows if he will even race MX next year. If he races outdoors next year the odds are strongly against him doing what's never been done before - 24-0 in back-to-back seasons.
Of course RV has more in the tank, but do you seriously think that James doesn't? C'mon, James recently won a moto by nearly a minute - without being pushed.
I think it's easy to forget just how good James is because he makes it look so easy. I'm a fan of RV, but I have no reason to believe that RV is going to manhandle James straight out of the box. What evidence is there to that? When RV beat RC at the MXdN last year didn't RC go down or get a terrible start?
Yes, I think RV has what it takes to win heat races and/or motos next year, but I need to see more to believe he's going threaten James. Coming into the class RV is not nearly as dominate as James was - and James was on a 125.
When he came back from knee surgery stronger than ever, all doubts were erased.
James raced with RC. He was right there in MX and faster in SX. To think that there's all of the sudden a handful of guys on that pace is ridiculous.
RV is close. As close as anyone. Mark my words, Mikey and RV will be battling a lot more than James and anyone else.
Or he could be the next coming of sliced bread in both premier classes....
Can't wait for '09 season to start to see how he reacts to pressures that James and Chad and a few others will place on him.
And as we all wanted RC and JBS to move up to dethrone the current crown holder or at least challenge him, they both fell on their face (literally) when they moved up trying to chase the current time champ.
RV, Canard and all of those hot-shoes are going to bring a lot to the 450 class when they come.
None of them have the moxie to knock JBS off his perch right now though.
It will be a couple of years at best.
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