Team GB would have finished 1 point behind France

JamesOliver
If Tommy Searle's bike had survived the last two laps of the first moto and he'd managed to stay in 4th, Team GB would have finished the day on 37 points with 4-4-6-10-13 moto scores. France would have been bumped from 35 to 36 and Italy would be bumped from 37 to 39, putting GB in second place just a single point behind France.

Just puts a bit of perspective on how well the British boys rode on the day. I don't think anyone would have predicted a 4th from Searle or Watson before the event. Just unfortunate that Searle's bike didn't make it to the flag.

Yes I know it's irrelevant at this point and you could come up with 10 other hypothetical scenarios for other teams but it's certainly interesting.
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Aryen 10/8/2018 8:39am
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Would’ve, should’ve, could’ve.

If Vlaanderen didn’t DNF in race one NL would probably end up with 17 points, winning MXoN by a mile.
It didn’t happen though.
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ti473 10/8/2018 8:41am
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If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle
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ktm300hater 10/8/2018 9:38am
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If our riders would have finished better we would have won
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lumpy790 10/8/2018 9:40am
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DNF’s suck. Last years lapper jumping on Anderson after he won sucked too.
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F150Motocrosser 10/8/2018 9:57am
10/8/2018 9:57am
as much as I hate these pointless "IF" threads...........

Searle had Tomac's number all weekend it seemed. Seemed like Eli was always behind Tommy, and the gap never realy changed. Searle was obviously gutted at the DNF, and rightfully so
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Question 10/8/2018 10:17am
10/8/2018 10:17am
He rode the best we have seen since he moved up to the 450, I was gutted too when he dnf'ed.

I am not even sure he has a team next season ... hoping he stays with Dixon (when it is not muddy!)
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74 10/8/2018 10:23am
10/8/2018 10:23am Edited Date/Time 10/8/2018 10:23am
ti473 wrote:
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle
No. Just an aunt with balls. It's not that easy nowadays.
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GeorgiePorgie 10/8/2018 10:24am
10/8/2018 10:24am
And Netherlands woulda wiped the floor if the third rider didn’t get his eye plucked out by a rock.....

If
If
If....

France for the fifth year. They’re doin something right....and they don’t even need Marv.
JamesOliver 10/8/2018 10:41am
10/8/2018 10:41am
If some of you had even just half a brain, you would have seen the part of my post where I stated that I know it's an irrelevant point at this stage and that you could come up with 10 other hypothetical team scenarios Pinch I was simply pointing out a statistic that most people probably hadn't realised.

Ironically it's mostly Americans with the stupid responses when their result wasn't affected by bad luck at all, just bad riding Laughing
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Sir 10/8/2018 10:41am
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Question wrote:
He rode the best we have seen since he moved up to the 450, I was gutted too when he dnf'ed. I am not even sure...
He rode the best we have seen since he moved up to the 450, I was gutted too when he dnf'ed.

I am not even sure he has a team next season ... hoping he stays with Dixon (when it is not muddy!)
Searle's with BOS for 2019 and teammate to Evgeny Bobryshev, still on Kawasaki though.
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Bruce372 10/8/2018 10:48am
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The engines on the dixon bikes are so unreliable. They'd be better off running stock engines
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Sidecar 10/8/2018 1:11pm
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lumpy790 wrote:
DNF’s suck. Last years lapper jumping on Anderson after he won sucked too.
That wasn’t last year...
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bsharkey 10/8/2018 1:17pm
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Bruce372 wrote:
The engines on the dixon bikes are so unreliable. They'd be better off running stock engines
didn't sayanai have the same issues as well

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