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karsmakers
7/22/2020 9:09pm
7/22/2020 9:09pm
"I still love riding my motorcycle and I’m still motivated to race. Even with locking down the supercross championship this year, I want to keep racing as long as I’m competitive. I hate not being able to win, so as long as I can still win races and be competitive, I think you’ll still see me out there. I don’t want to put a time limit on anything - at least not for a couple years. Yeah, I’m looking towards the future and hopefully things get sorted out and we can go back to racing normally."
His dad had huge longevity in his sport and is his driving influence.
I don't see anyone on the immediate horizon that will knock him off his perch either.
To me, he seems like the guy that will race until he's clearly out of the winners circle, not retire early because he's burnt out. He has his own training program chiseled around his specific needs, which I think will help prevent strict training regimen burnout. I just don't think he'll be the guy to win a championship and then retire afterwards. He seems to want one of the top spots in the record books. Not trying to gargle on him but I think he's the clear favorite for this years MX title and he'll be a heavy title favorite next year in SX as well.
I think it will take a new, younger 450 champ to maybe start to deter him. He's still on top of the current 450 class and seems to not be losing any steam yet.
The Shop
You know he really wants to win two SX in a row. He does seem like he will race until he doesn't win anymore instead of like how RC, RV and RD were quitting so early.
But you never know. Dungey once talked about racing for a while and then changed his mind.
Eli should win MX this summer but history says he won't. Only RC4 has won four in a row outdoors. That tells you how hard it is to do.
Tomac has won 35 of the 72 motos over the past 3 years. And he has 20 more podium finishes in that time.
Only Carmichael and Tony DiStefano had even won 3 years in a row before Tomac did.
History kept telling us that Tomac wouldn't win a SX title because he didn't win his first one soon enough. These are all arbitrary historical barriers that usually tell us more about who was racing at a specific time than it tells us about a specific rider's chances of doing something now.
Pit Row
If Webb was healthy coming into the SX season he would have won his second SX championship...So go ahead and hate on me, but just give that some thought.
You seemed to miss that the next week after the crash he was on the podium in 3rd place in Atlanta. So that don't really fly very far does it. He was pretty sick the first couple of rounds, and that's what I'm referring to.
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