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Round 6 - San Diego
3rd February, 2018
- Webb is dating Roczen’s previous girlfriend.
- Roczen doesn’t like the previous girlfriend and has a new one anyway.
- There’s huge animosity between Roczen and Webb.
- Roczen attempts to take out Webb in a main (after Webb ran Roczen wide in the previous corner).
- It all goes wrong, resulting in a major hand injury and Roczen’s supercross season over.
- Roczen was running second in the championship.
That’s two supercross seasons in a row for Roczen. The first one was bad luck, but this year’s crash was his own choice.
He finished the previous round in second, both on the night and in overall points (Jason Anderson was ahead by 15 points).
The resulting lack of podium and win bonuses must have cost at least $300-400,000 in future income.
Not to mention the loss of momentum from being laid up for so long.
He’s also paid a bunch of money to represent Honda in a professional and competitive way. So much for that idea.
It’s been a few months now… and I’m still intrigued about the consequences of Roczen’s move that night.
Was this the dumbest move in recent seasons?
https://youtu.be/jPNOcKh5IQ4?t=169
See? I told you'd I'd seen dumber...
The Shop
Want me to go on. Canard nearly ends up in a chair for LIFE, recovers to race and wins races. Talk about ‘mental’ strength.....
Had the race well and truly under control, then puts it on the ground all on his own, injuring his shoulder and throwing the season away before it began.
However, I generally manage to get around corners without flipping the bike over backwards and destroying my hand.
Roczen has a new girlfriend, who he likes much more then the previous one.
Which is just as well, due to an injury to his right hand…
Most of the dudes have block passes as harsh on their highlights reel. Like Marvin's last week seemed dumber and more dangerous but had no bad consequences (unless you're a Tomac fan).
Here's one from Tomac resume, ironically also going after Webb....
Dumb move, yes. Retaliation- maybe, from the corner before. Personal life animosity? Who knows?? You don't!! Who cares anyway..
Eli, A1, dumbest move of the year.
Dungey was consistent, but IDK about mentally tough. And trust me, Dungey was my favorite rider from like 2008 to about 2013. After that I still liked him, I just felt like he lost a lot of his titles by not hanging it out a little more and playing too consistent. Sure he won a lot of titles that way, but he lost a fair amount by playing it too safe also (IMO).
Maybe he did gain some mental toughness over the years and got better, but when mentioning how mentally tough Dunge is they forget 2008 250 SX, he ALMOST lost the 2009 250 W SX championship at the last round while going backwards the last 5 laps or so after initially battling for the win (the pressure got to him).
2011 MX, moto1 at Steel City, pressure got to him when he really needed the moto win. Moto 2 he came out like the air was completely let out of his sails.
Look at 2013 and 2014 seasons vs Villopoto and Roczen, Dungey was playing second fiddle the whole time. 2013 Outdoors Villopoto made Dungey (and the rest of the field) look very mediocre. I consider that not being mentally tough, in RD's mind Villopoto was better than him and that is why Dungey got killed plenty of times outdoors, when realistically RV wasn't THAT much better than RD.
I hate to say it, because I really think Ryan is a great role model and was a great rider, but he did kind of pickup the pieces after other guys faltered. For that reason don't know that I would consider Dungey mentally tough, but I would say very consistent.
Pit Row
Unfortunate move for Eli, yes. Lack of concentration, possibly. Dumb, no, not at all.
Frankly, you yourself said you're not an experienced rider so it's unlikely you've ever looped out simply because you're not on the gas as early as a top level pro riding a pro-level machine.
You're only 9 posts in...you'll learn.
sure it's polished, but it's still a fuckin' turd
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