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Look how much room there is to the inside of Cairoli at this point. Herlings gets on the throttle hard but is hardly turning at all, this is not intentional, but by the time he managed to start turning he had already drifted right out to AC's line and there was contact. You can see even more clearly from the GoPro footage that Cairoli pretty much just points himself in the right direction for turn 1 and Herlings comes straight across him
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I think its pretty conclusive, but if someone disagrees, all the best to their opinion.
He's already straightened (accidentally) the line he was in is just to the inside
Interesting thing is, Cairoli basicly punted everybody last year in Trentino. Yet the people he passed choose to brake instead of colliding. Everybody is repping that ride as last years performance of the year. Herlings makes one aggresive pass on him, and he's the bad guy. Cairoli is a fantastic rider, and with his speed & mindset it's probably a no-go to let Herlings pass him like this. No shame in that. Just dont blame the faster guy for taking your preferred line.
TC had the option to brake but didnt. If both riders are not willing to hit the brakes somebody will end up in tears.
I dont remember a pass by tc222 where the other rider fell as a result. I do remember a bunch of aggresive passes (lommel, trentino, thailand from the top of my mind) where the other rider simply hit the brakes and accepted defeat.
Should mention I'm fine with the move, Herlings could've avoided contact but can see why he didn't care if they did hit, but can also see why Cairoli is upset with it
I dont think Herlings did anything wrong personally, but at the same time I can kind of understand why Cairolis emotions boiled over a little bit. It's frustrating when you get ghosted wide.
Two stubborn racers in a racing incident where both riders could have prevented the outcome by letting the other guy pass, but hey, that ain’t racing is it? ?
It doesn't look as bad as RV vs Alessi but it doesn't look clean either lol. Anyway they were playing cat and mouse since a long time, it can be a racing incident but I guess more that Herlings wanted to show he can be bad too. It could have been really bad too for the championship's interest (wrist, shoulder, collarbone).
They both just got on the throttle hard because it was going to be a drag race to the next turn. Herlings drifted out to block Cairoli, Cairoli blew through the berm and came back across to the inside....it happens, racing incident.
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Phenomenal performance of the Spanish in MX2; Ruben Fernandez running third a few laps, resisting the attacks of Covington and Iker Larrañaga with two solid motos, getting his best result, seventh, and that was his first race with his new team.
We will soon have three riders in the top ten in MX2.
The VMX race was redflagged for max99 dad taking a digger after a digger,he get up?
Although he has always had some good starts from the gate, as he is from the photo in 85cc, his was more to get the HOLESHOT in the braking to reach the first corner, as seen in this video of one of his first races with the 125, but since he is with the 4 strokes has improved a lot when leaving the gate.
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