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Curse of the GOAT....Curse of the Bambino.
Finished listening to the Mike Lindsey interview of Ricky Carmichael the other day and how he felt that Honda "kicked him to the curb".
So that got me to thinking about the Honda "big boy" team since RC4 left and their Championships in the premier class.
Davi Milsaps, Ivan Tedasco, Ben Townley (was Factory Honda for two years and did he even race for them?), et al.
Many capable riders but for some reason, not close to winning a championship. That brings me to this year, Trey Canard a very capable rider but jeez if it was not for bad luck he would have no luck at all. Cole Seely, won a SX but now out again with an injury, Eli Tomec, fast as all get out but out for the rest of the season.
So last race at High Point, they had to pick up Freddie Noran off his pick up truck tailgate to put somebody in the Honda semi. I remember a time when Honda had 8 Factory riders on the team at the same time.
I know you are going to say "but, but, Tomac was killing them the first 2 1/4 races outdoors this year until he crashed!"
All that does is 100% prove my point that their is some "black cloud" hanging over Team Honda and the Curse of the Bambino.
Maybe RC went way back in the swamps and had a Voodoo woman put the bad Mojo on Team Honda?
We are talking about the Factory Honda MX Team.
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The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.[1] This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919–1920.[2] Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles.[3] After the sale they went without a title for decades, even while the Red Sox won four American League championships from 1946 to 1986, as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports.[4] The curse became a focal point of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry over the years.
Finished listening to the Mike Lindsey interview of Ricky Carmichael the other day and how he felt that Honda "kicked him to the curb".
So that got me to thinking about the Honda "big boy" team since RC4 left and their Championships in the premier class.
Davi Milsaps, Ivan Tedasco, Ben Townley (was Factory Honda for two years and did he even race for them?), et al.
Many capable riders but for some reason, not close to winning a championship. That brings me to this year, Trey Canard a very capable rider but jeez if it was not for bad luck he would have no luck at all. Cole Seely, won a SX but now out again with an injury, Eli Tomec, fast as all get out but out for the rest of the season.
So last race at High Point, they had to pick up Freddie Noran off his pick up truck tailgate to put somebody in the Honda semi. I remember a time when Honda had 8 Factory riders on the team at the same time.
I know you are going to say "but, but, Tomac was killing them the first 2 1/4 races outdoors this year until he crashed!"
All that does is 100% prove my point that their is some "black cloud" hanging over Team Honda and the Curse of the Bambino.
Maybe RC went way back in the swamps and had a Voodoo woman put the bad Mojo on Team Honda?
We are talking about the Factory Honda MX Team.
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The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.[1] This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919–1920.[2] Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles.[3] After the sale they went without a title for decades, even while the Red Sox won four American League championships from 1946 to 1986, as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports.[4] The curse became a focal point of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry over the years.
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As for accolades, they go way back to before MC ever started racing motocross. MC took over for Stanton, who battled his own team mate Bayle. Before that were RJ, O'mara, Dymond, Holland, and on before that.
They surely aren't what they once were as a Factory Race team, but no one else really is either.
Even the little "boutique" brand KTM has been consistently shitting on them for awhile now.
Nothing will ever top the disappointment of the NS500R project though. probably the largest 2-wheeled fail, ever.
I think Honda thought JS7 was gonna put a beat down on RC, but it didn't happen.
Probably motivated RC even more.
BP
Pit Row
Net profit suzuki 1.27 billion
Net profit ktm 57 Million.
Ktm is absolutely zero threat to what these companies are trying to do
I've worked for some huge companies (granted, none like Honda) in my time, and I've seen really talented people get "kicked to the curb" even when they seemed to have been loyal to that company, and seemed successful in always making the company look good. I was confused until someone wiser than me told me "Son, if you think for one minute this company loves you, appreciates you, or even gives the smallest shit about you personally...you are kidding yourself."
Malherbe
Bailey
Chandler
Fonseca
Henry (although not on Honda at the time)
The bigger sales question is why does Honda even care about making dirt bikes? It is such a small (compared to the big picture) part of their sales. However, if they do care, why are they not trying?
Did Decoster knock up your wife or something?
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