500 GPs for Tanel Leok!

Bidirella
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8/9/2020 9:34am Edited Date/Time 8/9/2020 6:28pm
This one deserve his own topic. SX got Reedy and Larocco with crazy stats but in the GPs there is Tanel Leok.

Today he rode his 500th GP! First one was Valkenswaard in 2001, 19 years later he is still going!
He also rode for 19 years straight the MXDN for Estionia!

What a accomplished for him and what a career!
Well done Tanel!
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8/9/2020 9:37am
If only Aigar (sp?) was still around they would be amazing👍
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8/9/2020 9:42am Edited Date/Time 8/9/2020 9:46am
That is an amazing feat but one thing seems odd to me. How is that mathematically possible?

The math (25x20=500) works out to 25 GP's a year for 20 years (2001-2020). To the best of my recollection the series has never had 25 rounds in a season. And in that scenario he would never be able to get hurt and miss a round which seems impossible in MX.

Was he racing multiple classes at each GP back when Everts was winning 2 classes on the same day?
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Ray_MXS
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8/9/2020 9:43am
The guy is an absolute legend 👌
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Ray_MXS
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DownSouth wrote:
That is an amazing feat but one thing seems odd to me. How is that mathematically possible? The math (25x20=500) works out to 25 GP's a...
That is an amazing feat but one thing seems odd to me. How is that mathematically possible?

The math (25x20=500) works out to 25 GP's a year for 20 years (2001-2020). To the best of my recollection the series has never had 25 rounds in a season. And in that scenario he would never be able to get hurt and miss a round which seems impossible in MX.

Was he racing multiple classes at each GP back when Everts was winning 2 classes on the same day?
Pretty sure it's 500 motos. As in starts. A GP is usually two starts apart from a few years in the 2000s when it was just one. He's managed to keep injury free an astonishing amount of time.
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8/9/2020 10:59am
Some people are moto to the bone...through and through. Absolute respect for Tanel. The Estonian Rock!
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8/9/2020 11:45am
MR: MOTOCROSS
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8/9/2020 12:34pm
Massive respect to him. Takes a special kind of toughness to stay in the game for 500 races
8/9/2020 12:37pm
DownSouth wrote:
That is an amazing feat but one thing seems odd to me. How is that mathematically possible? The math (25x20=500) works out to 25 GP's a...
That is an amazing feat but one thing seems odd to me. How is that mathematically possible?

The math (25x20=500) works out to 25 GP's a year for 20 years (2001-2020). To the best of my recollection the series has never had 25 rounds in a season. And in that scenario he would never be able to get hurt and miss a round which seems impossible in MX.

Was he racing multiple classes at each GP back when Everts was winning 2 classes on the same day?
It had me puzzled and getting the math to work out the same as yours. Someone told me it was gate drops
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8/9/2020 2:05pm
Damn, after reading the title of the thread, I thoight 500 2t's coming back. Pretty damn amazing though, 500 might include all FIM gate drops but thats still unreal.
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8/9/2020 2:18pm
So amazing! Seems like yesterday he and Tyla Ratray were on a team racing minis. He would be a good fit on a team even after racing with all that experience.
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8/9/2020 2:40pm
Amazing career. He is a bad dude that's for sure.
Just think about how much the sport has changed from his 1st pro race till now.
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Nairb#70 wrote:
Damn, after reading the title of the thread, I thoight 500 2t's coming back. Pretty damn amazing though, 500 might include all FIM gate drops but...
Damn, after reading the title of the thread, I thoight 500 2t's coming back. Pretty damn amazing though, 500 might include all FIM gate drops but thats still unreal.
On a slightly related factoid: His relative, Avo Leok was the last guy to win a GP on a 500cc 2 stroke. He won the 1997 500 GP opener at Lommel on a KX500, won the overall with 4-2 finishes.

500 motos for Tanel is crazy. Looks like he got a point in the 2nd moto today.
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8/9/2020 3:01pm
What a bad ass. How old is he?
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8/9/2020 3:05pm
jk367 wrote:
What a bad ass. How old is he?
He's 35.
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8/9/2020 3:13pm Edited Date/Time 8/9/2020 3:15pm
hope next topic like this will be for Kevin Strijbos

i liked to watch T. Leok on a TM couple years ago

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