Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but paid users have great benefits. Paid member benefits:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2024 SX, MX, and SMX series (regularly $30).
Edit: i have no doubt that herlings wants the same, but i Think he feels that the best way to be the next goat is to beat both everts and tc's titles and he doesnt seem to like the us Lifestyle nor does he seem to have any urge to race sx. I also Think that tomac is more into mx than sx even tho he wants a couple of sx titles and the best way to prove your worth in mx nowadays is in europe.
*dreaming away*
The Shop
Herlings on the other hand legitimately wants to destroy every race he enters, he has that grit that the riders I mentioned above have.
LISA LEYLAND (reading fan question): You recently said that you want to have a long career. Would you consider racing in Europe if you became a multi-time champion in the U.S. in the 450s?
TOMAC: I will never say it's out of the, out of the question. You know it, like I said, I enjoy this different environment, and it would be cool to literally travel around the world racing motorcycles. So it's never out of the question.
PAUL MAHLIN (laughing): At someone else's expense.
Contrast that with Dungey once saying he'd never race in MXGP, saying "those tracks over there just look terrible" ... "there’s a lot of races where I don’t even really think it’s really racing. It looks really hard-pack. It doesn’t look like a racetrack in my eyes" ... "I won’t ever probably do that in my lifetime."
Big difference in sentiments.
The key point, though, is what you wrote at the end: If Luongo really wants to, he could broker a deal with Monster Energy and Kawasaki to bring Tomac to the FIM series, which would benefit everyone in the sport and push MXGP to a higher commercial level. The allure seems obvious.
As for the people asking why Herlings doesn't come to the U.S, dozens of riders have done that already. But show us a guy not named Brad Lackey who won in the U.S. then went over there and beat those guys in the top class. (At least Villopoto tried; the rest is just so much talk.)
Rs444 what is it that no American has managed to do exactly? I'm assuming you mean win multiple titles in America and then go to the GP's and win?
Pit Row
just kidding, congrats to the champ
Also knowing that a number of privateers might struggle to make the main would be annoying for some.
If they said top 10 or 15 in MXGP invite only to a USA trans round it might help.
Would no doubt be a huge revenue opportunity for everyone.
--
Going into the ‘Nations, obviously all eyes are on Herlings and [Eli] Tomac. Is that exciting in a way for you? You are going in as a bit of an underdog and obviously you are a nine-time world champion, so you should be in that conversation. You could quite easily go in there, beat them both, and suddenly all off-season everyone would be talking about how great you are.
I do not really care, because this sh*t talking has always been there since forever. I am really not bothered about this stuff. I do not regret what I did in the past and I do not regret what I am going to do in the future. These people who are talking in the media, they like the fights and stuff. I hopefully can enjoy the battle. I will love it, together with them, Herlings and Tomac, but we do not forget [Ken] Roczen I think is also one that can make it in the fight. It will be amazing to have three Europeans against the Americans. It will be amazing to have such a great fight.
--
Source: MXVice
Post a reply to: Congrats Jeffrey Herlings!