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8/17/2015 8:11am
8/17/2015 8:11am
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Team tactics! Its been 14 years since something like that has happened, but after the podium speeches, will Decoster be more apt to having his 450 champ help his teammate button this up?!?!
People seem to be all for the Yamaha team doing it, why not up the ante and make this even more exciting!
People seem to be all for the Yamaha team doing it, why not up the ante and make this even more exciting!
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At this point, Carmichael had already signed a deal to move over to Team Honda for 2002, and his KX250 was getting a little long in the tooth. But RC doesn’t take losing very well, and he did some more testing to improve his green machine. He fired back with dominant wins at Millville and Binghamton the clinch the championship. Then he decided to drop back to the 125s for the final round at Steel City. Carmichael was tied atop the all-time 125 career win list with Mark Barnett, and wanted to go after the record. But that put him on a collision course with perhaps the most dramatic 125 title fight ever.
Langston and Brown battled, with Langston holding a small edge heading to Steel City. Carmichael met them there looking to break the win record on a KX125. Brown had been riding and training at Carmichael’s house all summer, which raised suspicion that RC was dropping down to help his buddy. RC responded by saying to Langston, famously, “Don’t worry, I won’t even touch you when I go past you.”
Carmichael started nearly last in the first moto and could only get to third. Brown won the race (and flipped off Langston at the finish!) to close in on points, but Langston still had a slight points lead. Then Brown crashed early in moto two. With Carmichael pulling out a massive lead, Langston circulated up front, looking to cruise home with KTM’s first-ever AMA National Championship. Then disaster struck. Spokes started breaking on Langston’s rear wheel. Brown was coming through traffic in a hurry, while Langston started falling through the pack. Finally, in the waning moments, Langston’s wheel collapsed, and so did his championship hopes. Brown had it, so he even moved over to allow Brandon Jesseman to pass him, thus giving Carmichael the overall (and all-time 125 win record) via 3-1 scores. And Brown won the championship, celebrating with tears of joy at the finish, while Langston sat in the mechanics’ area about 20 feet away, crying, as well, over a championship lost to a broken wheel
It reminds me a bit of a legendary feat Stefan Everts pulled of in the year where the GP's only raced 1 race on sunday for points instead of the 2 moto format. He became 'Mister 875cc' by winning all 3 the GP classes that day (i think it was a French GP, could be wrong here though..) in the 125 / 250 / 500 classes.
He somehow managed to do this and obviously broke records while at it. Later that year (this could've been the last GP actually i don't remember it all that good) but in the 125cc category he often dropped down and competed since i guess he didn't like the single moto format. He won so often in the 125cc class that year (he only started doing this a quarter into the season i believe) that he came very close to winning 2 world titles that year. I think he ended up 2nd in the 125 class behind Steve Ramon or Michael Maschio (probly spelled wrong).
This story could have some errors in it but i am pretty sure it happened around the year 2004
Rumors look to be true..... RD5 with black backgrounds this weekend at Ironman.....
Roger D.
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= professional, only clown here is Webb.
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Look at Roczen and Tomac, they were by far the fastest their final year in 250s, when they moved up Roczen won the title and Tomac won a race and podiumed a bunch when he came back from injury.
More recently Anderson and Baggett and Seely have been finishing about where they did in 250s if not a little better.
We know that Marvin is no slouch, hes got that smooth French style and hes been around forever, but hes not riding away from J Mart and Coop so they are definitely hauling too. Pity AC isnt there to play second spoiler.
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