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Regarding the racing, it was pretty good. Hunter Lawrence is the real deal, I think he will battle Jonass some but I think the #1 will stay put. Super bummer for Sanayei in the first Moto. Kid has good speed. In the big bike class it is looking like AC222 vs Jeffry all year, I hope they can stay healthy. I think Gajser, Febvre and Paulin will elevate to challenge at certain times on certain tracks, maybe Desalle too but he has a bad injury history.
Des Nations, how about the Germans with Ken Roczen, Max Nagl, and Henry Jacobi?
If it actually were USA versus Europe (20 from each region), the MXGP guys would clean house. (And whoever said that Cairoli can't run with the Americans must be on drugs.)
I love watching and traveling to the nationals, but a lot of the races were so-so last year, IMO.
There is no comparison worth making from gp to outdoors. They are different and both fun to watch when the racing is good and boring when the racing isn’t good.
Patagonia was boring there wasn’t that much dicing going on. Yes there was some but it wasn’t like it was amazing
And Forkner worked Herlings all right. I like Forkner, but the next week at Glen Helen, Herlings was fastest in timed practice, won the qualifying race and won both motos. Forkner got third and 18th.
Pit Row
Tomac himself said the MXGP guys were fast as fuck.
I'm not always a fan of Herlings' attitude (as Malin said after Argentina, "...He's going to be taller than Jasikonis now.") but humility doesn't motivate the guy. He has a dog-eat-dog attitude towards competition and it works for him.
But to get to the original post, I agree. More MX, less SX please. Fortunately as it works now, just when my attention starts to wane on Supercross, the MXGPs kick in. Multiple series running at once...yes please!
I hope somebody took a good photo of either moment, or the jump before... it was cool AF!!! Great racing let’s hope the whole championship it’s like that
GP's AMA
AC.......... Roczen
Herlings........ Tomac
Gasjer........ Baggett
Febvre........ Musquin
DeSalle........ Anderson
Paulin....... Barcia
JVH....... Webb
Anstie........ Osburone
Simpson........ Wilson
Lieber........ Pieck
Coldenhoff....... Seely
Seewer....... Bogle
Bobryshev....... Grant
Jasikonis...... Tickle
Nagl....... Bloss
Thats the top 15 or there about, When its all written down I dont know who would win. I know the sport better than 99.9% of guys on here and I couldn't tell you. IMO there are 4 Elite MX riders in the GPs with DeSalle knocking on the door and Paulin will have his day. In the AMA I think there are 5 with 2 of them being former world champs and If Barcia carries over from SX it would be 6. With a bigger gap on back and of course we dont know how Osburone will do.
A top 20 race would be great and only a complete Idiot would declare that they know the winner before the drop of the gate. As always injuries would be the single biggest factor like they always are. I do agree with the AC statement you would have to be an idiot to say he couldn't compete. AC is one of a kind, he is the same age as Stewart and 3 years older than RV 4 years older than RD and 5 years older than Canrard and he is still out there ripping.
I do love these arguments but sadly no one can argue correctly they always get to caught up in the hype weather it be some people now with GPs or 5 years ago when no one gave AC the time of day because he had not won the MxDN yet even though he had 6 world titles and nearly 60 gp wins to his name at the time. Nobody thinks for themselves they jump on the hype train and launch off.
And, yeah, I think Herlings and Cairoli would likely run 1-2, and that'd be hard to overcome. The rest would be a mash-up that'd cancel out.
In all these pissing matches its Musquin I feel we leave out the most, he had the fastest laps at Ironman 17 and was a crash away from winning 5 of the last 6 nationals yet he is always glossed over in the discussion for fastest MX rider. He was a double MX2 world champ that left the GPs making it easier for Roczen and then Herlings to win races and titles and really found his grove outdoors yet no one brings him the discussion. IMO he is easily the best French rider in the world.
Why do we feel the need to till everything 16" deep and add mulch and water? Don't till as deep and just sprinkle water for dust. Let the tracks get beat to shit. Instead of this slot car racing bullshit at every single track.
Let the tracks blow out some. I have always supported our nationals......but the GP's have this figured out. And their tracks are creating better riders through multiple types of conditions.
Don't even get me started on the 125 class , EMX250 and women's class. We try and fit only the premier classes into one single day.
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