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I would guess. At A1 he was certainly the top dog on the team. Now that Webb has stepped it up that is no longer true I would think. Kinda feel for the guy. 2nd half of the series coming up and maybe we'll see Marvelous Marv back to his old self.
He isn't racing bad, just not the same speed or intensity as he had last year, easy to speculate.
The worst part probably is spending the whole week next to Webb, pretending everything's just fine..
The Shop
I think he has a win in him this year.
Except I don't think Webb had to meet Barcia everyday at the factory.
I just think he has too much on his mind since his brothers accident and he lacks killer intensity like what forkner and Tomac showed last night.
Marvs a top five rider in my opinion.
I feel he and Tomac are in the same boat so far this season. Having not trained as much as they would like during the off season, both are far spottier than they would like performance-wise. Both have shown flashes of speed and brilliance along with some true WTF-headscratcher moments. Whether mentally, physically, equipment related or a combination thereof we'll never know bc they'll never say - not 100% candidly, anyway.
Tomac is on the ascent and with the exception of last night, Marvin has been too. He'll get there - he always does. Just might be harder against a healthy Tomac and the mysterious re-emergence of 250 champ Cooper Webb.
"he's done, just like Reed"
Easy to see the negative points of a rider currently sitting 3rd of the championship, only 12 points down ...
"he is old"
"he is on the downfall"
"he is done"
"he is burned out"
As everybody knows he came at A1 with like 3 days on the bike after his knees injury. I was not expecting him to be that good in the first half of the championship, so who knows, actually it may be his year ... but Tomac is just finding his groove too ...
I would agree with you if he was like 12th in the championship right now, I would also start to worry a bit ...
Pit Row
Je dis simplement qu'il bascule lentement mais surement vers la descente au vu de son age ainsi que la fragilité de ses genoux et concernant l'argument "Reed" avec tout le respect que j'ai pour lui, en étant vraiment content pour sa troisième place, il est fini dans le sens ou il ne joue plus le titre.
"With no disrespect to Marvin, the best days of his career are increasingly behind him. Obviously he is still a title contender, and it was not my intention to suggest he can't be the champion.
I'm just saying that considering both his age and the increasingly fragile condition of his knees, he is slowly but surely fading downward. To the argument that "Chad Reed is still competitive," while I respect and am happy for his third place finish, his career is finished in the sense of being a title contender."
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