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I also don't see some grand conspiracy to hold the races in mud...it's a Fall race, and it rains in the Fall in much of the earth.
All that being said, I can't wait for France (even if it rains, it'll be awesome). We as an AMA-based MX Nation just have to get better, or get used to getting spanked every MXdN. I sure hope the brain trust at Feld doesn't do something really stupid like expand SX beyond the current 17 rounds - that would be the death knell of American moto...
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My comment also included last year's performance. Our guys tried their best amid challenging conditions and I am not discounting that. However, I stand by my statement. On any given day, our guys are a threat to win motos. In wet sand, a straight up 8th and 13th becomes the benchmark to say they had a pretty good day. What does that tell you?
We aren't very good in wet sand.
People love MEC and Redbull straight rhythm. Why get rid of them?
Next MXoN at Unadilla? You must love mud races. Next MXoN in America needs to be in So. California, preferably Glen Helen if they could make it work. No more midwest or eastern MXoN events, those tracks are great in the summer but suck ass in the fall.
You would have to say either one of them could be considered the next best 450 rider to Eli. Cooper Webb got hurt but didn't want to go anyway. Who else is better on the 450 right now?
Any sane person with common knowledge of our sport will tell you a team of Tomac, AC, and then JA or ZO would likely be a completely different outcome. Hell just having Tomac on the team gets us on the podium imo. Not to mention AC was by far our most consistent outdoor 250 rider - not saying he gets away soil sample free, but I highly doubt he would throw up two shit motos.
Obviously the elements played a huge factor and theres no way to predict what would happen, but it is fact that we had two better more consistent riders that we could have sent, thats all I'm saying.
I'm not sure how anyone can argue for the squad we sent being our best team when BOTH of our outdoor champions were not on the team.
Edit:
A - Team
450 MX19 OA: ET - 1st / JA - 4th
250 MX19 OA: AC - 1st
B - Team
450 MX19 OA: JA - 4th / ZO - 5th
250 MX19 OA: JC - 3rd
Just another example of Vital hating facts.
Pit Row
The year prior he had that spectacular crash and came back to nearly win the next moto finishing second to Roczen. Both riders were on 250s, by the way.
You can't count 2nd as he was not American so Cooper was 2nd.
Fixed it for ya'll
A - Team
450 MX19 OA: ET - 1st / JA - 2nd
250 MX19 OA: AC - 1st
B - Team
450 MX19 OA: JA - 2nd / ZO - 3rd
250 MX19 OA: JC - 2nd
2017: Matterley Basin
2018: RedBud
2019: Assen
The wind and rain just really, really sucked. Just got back today and watched the full broadcast. TV does not do the conditions justice at all.
And with that comment right there above in quote you have part of the solution to the problem of American success at the MXON.
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