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Here are some quotes from the last RacerX Redux in regards to Mike Alessi.
Yes, that was an AMA certified official holeshot. Canard ate Mike up immediately, but Mike tried scrubbing the first triple hard to keep up. Then when Dungey made a pass, Alessi stuffed him right back. After the race, the Suzuki guys were kind of bummed Mike did that, because there was absolutely no chance he was going to hold off Dungey for 19 more laps, so he basically wrecked Dungey’s race for no real reason—if Dunge had gotten to second on the first lap it may have changed everything. Oh and about 20 seconds later, Mike hit the whoops and his run at the front was over.
Matthes and I felt bad seeing Mike struggle in the whoops, and his brother Jeff was sitting right in front of us. So we asked Jeff how Tony somehow missed out on teaching Mike the whoops back when he was teaching starts. According to Jeff, they have built full-scale supercross tracks with nothing but whoop sections—no jumps, just whoops. And yet it still didn’t work. Jeff also said he helped Mike after practice in Dallas, and if not for his advice, Mike wouldn’t have made the main event..
It's like RacerX went out of their way to try and slam him? So, if Dungey loses the championship, it's somehow Alessi's fault? BS. Since when is it wrong to pass Dungey, or any racer, for that matter?! Hahn should have passed Reed too when he had the chance.
Yes, that was an AMA certified official holeshot. Canard ate Mike up immediately, but Mike tried scrubbing the first triple hard to keep up. Then when Dungey made a pass, Alessi stuffed him right back. After the race, the Suzuki guys were kind of bummed Mike did that, because there was absolutely no chance he was going to hold off Dungey for 19 more laps, so he basically wrecked Dungey’s race for no real reason—if Dunge had gotten to second on the first lap it may have changed everything. Oh and about 20 seconds later, Mike hit the whoops and his run at the front was over.
Matthes and I felt bad seeing Mike struggle in the whoops, and his brother Jeff was sitting right in front of us. So we asked Jeff how Tony somehow missed out on teaching Mike the whoops back when he was teaching starts. According to Jeff, they have built full-scale supercross tracks with nothing but whoop sections—no jumps, just whoops. And yet it still didn’t work. Jeff also said he helped Mike after practice in Dallas, and if not for his advice, Mike wouldn’t have made the main event..
It's like RacerX went out of their way to try and slam him? So, if Dungey loses the championship, it's somehow Alessi's fault? BS. Since when is it wrong to pass Dungey, or any racer, for that matter?! Hahn should have passed Reed too when he had the chance.
Mike had every right to bang for position but they are also right to point out that there were some bad feelings about it.
It isn't like everyone that follows the sport doesn't know that Mike has problems with the whoops.....
Mike sucks in the whoops because he doesn't believe he's any good in them the whole durned comedy keeps perpetuating itself
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But my money is still on him to win the championship.
I know of two ways to get faster at riding a motorcycle.
1. Practice with faster riders
2. Experience the pace at the front of the pack and get a feel for it while watching lines and technique.
Pretty sure Mikey is working toward getting faster and he doesn't owe Dungey, Canard, Reed, Villopoto or Stewart a mother effing thing.
Those comments from RacerX can pound sand.
Their is no objective reporting anywhere in the world. Everything is slanted with opinion and bias. Every for profit news organization has to pander to their target audience in an effort to increase ad revenue. Every non profit reporting group suffers from internal group think and has to pander to their donors as well. What can we do.
As a fan wanting to see Dungey and Canard going at it for the lead I was bummed too.
the context they were talking about is something you see in every single level of racing, from beginner to pro.... there is a a hierarchy, from top to bottum wether you want to believe and acknowledge it or not. Riders order themselves. The example was made about how you dont see Wey fighting the hell out of the big 5, but will go tooth and nail against anyone else. Why? Because Wey knows hes not going that speed, but the others he is going that speed. Dont shoot me, just stating it how it is.
What they were talking about was a guy "fighting hard for position" because he got the holie, when the very next straight...ie whoops section (hoops for you RC fans) that 15 guys were blitzing and 5 where barely making it thru-and you are one of those 5. So, the question was, why slam someone to "fight for position" when 20 feet later they are going to blow by you at mach 3, and you know they are going to blow by you at mach 3? You are 3 seconds a lap off a guys time, and you slam them. Slam might not be the right word, he didnt dirty him, just got agressive. But there is no chance he can race with him, so why the block pass? If they were close in lap times, sure, do what you can! Race them. But someone you wont even see after 2 corners, until they lap you? That was the point.
Ummmm, this isn't a news flash everybody, but Dungey has been suffering from mediocre starts and much less than aggressive riding all year. Don't blame that shit on Alessi.
And truly. For god's sake, how hard did he really slam Dungey? They touched...kinda. Get over it.
Plus, they can say whatever they want, just like on here.
And thank you everyone for that brilliant education summary for how reporting is generated and how wonderful RacerX is for their edgey and exemplary reporting - on how Suzuki's poor Golden boy Dungey got his feelings hurt since someone didn't play nice. Dear Lord...
Dungey needs to get aggressive if he wants to win this thing. It's bad when people whose opinions actually count talk about the stars of today riding like girls.
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Ping had a good point on this in the podcast he does with Weege and Matthes. He said that when he was in that position he thought it was better to try to follow the faster rider and learn his lines, so you can run his pace. Then if you can run with them, make a move later in the race or wait for a mistake. But if you stuff them back the first opportunity you have, then you know it's coming back at you, probably harder. Basically Ping was saying it was within the written rules, outside the "unwritten" rules, and not very smart. I agree with him.
I kind of wonder if Mike would have done that to any other of the big five. I can see any of the rest of them getting pissed and cleaning him out (especially RV). You know RD isn't going to do that, so you pass him, knowing there probably won't be a payback. I'm not ripping on RD, I'm a huge fan of his, and RD did the smart thing and just passed Mike cleanly and ran away from him. But....that passed showed a real lack of respect for RD - would Mike have done that to RV? Reed? Stewart? I'm not so sure.
"so he basically wrecked Dungey’s race for no real reason—if Dunge had gotten to second on the first lap it may have changed everything."
Same with Hahn, off course he has to pass Reed when he makes a mistake.
There is a fine line between putting on a hard pass and punting someone off the track, it would be a bummer if a top contender got hurt.
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