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According to this thread: JS7, RV2, TC41, and CR22 should be labeled as crashers. All them were out with injuries.
Forgot.... RD5 missed a few SX rounds.
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I do not think we will ever see " bubba " again. Just james, a man lost in his own image who will never know that 4 th & healthy is more valuable that " 1st " and injured.
He has had so many greats to learn from, ricky, even dungey in a sense. . . Think he would learn
Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast.
Everyone that is complaining about Stewart being out there are the same people complaining that he wasn't out there last year. G*d damn f*cking hypocrites here. Geezus f*cking chr*st.
Big Dog
Do you remember the first 4 races?...Do you remember early in moto 1 today where in the span of 2 laps he was already in Tokyo?
As for reflexes, getting top 3 starts, on a new bike, and after missing most of the season doesn't seem to indicate he lost his speed.
He has one speed and that's really fast. It's his biggest asett and biggest impediment at the same time.
Pit Row
Somewhere along the way, it appears that the value of finishing, at all cost, was lost.
Enduring Champions in our sport have all subscribed to this concept.
Recently, Alessi, has recaptured that concept and his results show it.
Altough I will admit that watching Burner in the lead was pretty damn cool to watch too. Dudes style it filthy.
But, those high level skills have a very short and finite time frame in an elite athletes life.
Since I am from Canada, I'll put it in hockey terms. Young NHL goal scorer gets 32 goals his first season, has his peak year of 48 goals at 25, then it is downhill for every year after thay until 20 is a good year at 33 years of age. All about reaction time and motor skills peaking and degressing in humans. In hockey, the term is for goal scorers and skill players, "the hands go first". That is that unbelievable reaction time and skill set that allows a player to rip apart NHL goalies.
James does such high level moves on a bike that no one has ever seen before, but his mind and skills and reaction time can't keep up now due to age. In elite athlete terms, he is old
It's sad, I love the guy because his riding is so out of this world. I love his riding, but JS7 will never be the old James again. He makes moves his reflexes and motor skillscan't cash. He can't stop riding like he has his whole life.
That is my Sunday AM MX philosophy. Hope his spends his millions wisely.
I think that his lack off racing the past 2 years and the race-to-win mentality he got is what keeps him crashing.
He havent even finished a series for like what? Soon 3 years?
Most didn't want to believe it at the time, but the guard began to change the last few rounds of SX in 2009, and at A1 in 2010.
It's always good to see James line up, but it's beginning to have a Travis Pastrana feel to it.
Everyone gets old, guys like him and Reed are at the end of the road, while Dungey is hitting his prime.
Next year if all the riders are healthy, will we see Reed and James on the podium? Or will it be RV, Dungey and Canard, Barcia, Wilson?
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