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According to story in MotoOnline:
Oz SX: Alessi remains hopeful despite Super X bad luck
Californian Mike Alessi showed his best form of the season early in the night at last weekend’s Launceston round of the 2010 Monster Energy Super X, Australasian Supercross Championship, but more bad luck and a groin injury spoiled his hopes of a top result in the main event.
Alessi, riding for the JDR Motorex KTM team in Australia, rode through the pain of a groin injury sustained in the Eliminator Challenge to take ninth overall, the world class American taking 9-7-9 results on the night in the main event – the final race determining the overall result.
“I definitely felt good in practice and was able to qualify in fifth,” the controversial 22-year-old commented. “I struggled really bad in the main event with bad starts, but that’s just the way it goes – if you get bad starts the races are short and you can’t make many passes.
“My bike was good and the team has been working well, but I injured my groin early on in the night so I had to tough it out, try to do the best that I could while riding in pain.”
The result moved Alessi up one position to 11th in the series, however he’s not giving up hope of a solid overall result just yet.
“We’re going to keep working, come back in New Zealand and be strong,” Alessi concluded.
Oz SX: Alessi remains hopeful despite Super X bad luck
Californian Mike Alessi showed his best form of the season early in the night at last weekend’s Launceston round of the 2010 Monster Energy Super X, Australasian Supercross Championship, but more bad luck and a groin injury spoiled his hopes of a top result in the main event.
Alessi, riding for the JDR Motorex KTM team in Australia, rode through the pain of a groin injury sustained in the Eliminator Challenge to take ninth overall, the world class American taking 9-7-9 results on the night in the main event – the final race determining the overall result.
“I definitely felt good in practice and was able to qualify in fifth,” the controversial 22-year-old commented. “I struggled really bad in the main event with bad starts, but that’s just the way it goes – if you get bad starts the races are short and you can’t make many passes.
“My bike was good and the team has been working well, but I injured my groin early on in the night so I had to tough it out, try to do the best that I could while riding in pain.”
The result moved Alessi up one position to 11th in the series, however he’s not giving up hope of a solid overall result just yet.
“We’re going to keep working, come back in New Zealand and be strong,” Alessi concluded.
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The beginning of every year, people say "this is his year to win it".
But then he just crumbles under the pressure.
I never expected to see him on the podium and Its going to be even worse when he comes back to the US
Anyway, hope he can get his head straight this year. If anyone can get him going, it's DeCoster.
Wow, I wish I had that bad luck!
The old "he's better than you" bullshit is kinda tired. I know he's better than me, which is why I'm speaking relatively. Relative to the other factory riders, he's a squid on a supercross track. If he can't even manage a top 5 in Australia, there's no way he's going to make a top 10 or probably even 15 in America. I think he'll be doing good to qualify for every main this season. I'll bet every last penny I have that he doesn't.
Oh, and let's not talk about B riders (yellow backgrounds in youre avatar pic, yes?) riding a SX track.
Pit Row
Alessi is an incredible rider, there's no doubt about it. But when we're speaking relative to all the others out on the SX track, he's got nothing for most of them. You can think what you'd like, but come this next SX season, you'll watch this guy struggle to find a top 10. Motocross is a different story for him, but that's not what we're talking about.
Oh, and I remember this one kid being pulled straight from B class to ride for a factory team and winning his very first SX. I'm no Ryan Dungey, but you don't know a damn thing about how I ride. You cannot judge someone based on backgrounds.
As far as riding goes I can judge due to the fact I'm over here in Utah and know the speed of CO B riders. I know i'm an A rider and went to Cole Sieblers track and felt like I was an 85 novice rider. Just sayin....
Hope he has all his earnings in some great investments.....
mike isn't the best sx racer but he is damn good one and could be a lot better if his "program" believed it could be. i guess most of the simps like you and the rest of the collective vital brain trust have pretty severe memory loss....put you twats in the same catagory as the dipshits that say stewart has no heart....
well here's a reminder of both
http://bobbymx.com/SEA/sea_1sthalf.wmv
Compared to the other riders you'll see out there on the sx track this season, Alessi is a squid.
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