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Off weekend so I want to do some reading and learning! As the title states, throughout the history of MX/SX, what have been to the most consequential mechanical failures?
The first one that comes to mind for me is in 2015 when JMart and Musquin went into the final round with just 2 points separating them. 2 laps into Moto 1, Musquin’s bike dies which led to Jeremy Martin winning the title with a 4-9 finish on the day.
Reed at daytona. Bike quit 2 turns from finish.
Langstons spokes
RJ’s front wheel in 1982.
CanAm broken frame…1977?
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Tomac's front brake in Arlington a few years back.
Hughes breaking a chain in 95 at steel city.
Larocco’s carb falling off costing him the 125 national championship.
Dungey 2011 both in SX, and Mx when he ran out of fuel. Would have won the championship otherwise.
Hannah's throttle cable.
McGrath's flat tire in '97. The last 2 rounds following Charlotte would have likely looked a lot different.
Pretty sure he also smoked the clutch at a couple other rounds that season. I'm almost positive the on the fly adjustable clutch was invented from McGrath's Suzuki woes.
I bet that was a rough day for the mechanic
Stewart's connecting rod exiting the bike in 06?
The Musquin and Dungey ones definitely from a championship perspective.
Ken's shock blowing up through the whoops last year ended his season.
As mentioned it has to be poor Grant Langston at Steel City..
But otherwise; Sebastian Tortelli Red Bud 2000.... (edit: though I can't say it cost him a title - just sticks in my mind as a big Seb fan at the time).
Gary Semics broken chain while leading Atlanta SX
Pit Beirer’s KTM 250SX doing something funky on the jump take off.
Although Nicoll rode the bike a few days later and said there was nothing wrong with it..🤷♀️
Pierre Karsmakers launching a works RC250 into the gatorback quarry.
Edit: Not mechanical. lol
Larocco's dad was one of the mechanics.
Pit Row
Not a DNF per se but consequential none the less. Brandon Hartranft suffered a career ending TBI when his bike locked up on the face of a SX jump during practice.
In '08? It gave KDub hope but Reed still controlled the championship pretty easily
That one really disappointed me.. though I'm sure Donnie doesn't feel that way about it.
Bradshaw's cranial seizure at the coliseum in '92, costing him the SX title.
No doubt it was, but carbs popping out was not uncommon back around then.
Does Dungey’s fuel boiling at Freestone in 2011 count? He was leading that race and ended up losing the title by 12 points.
That, and I think a rock got stuck in his front sprocket at an SX? The boiled fuel was a bad one-he had that on lock by a mile
Langston's wheel in 2001
it didnt actually cost him anything, Lamson was already gone,
his reaction pushing the bike uphil gained him a heap of fans,
Did a mechanical cause Magoo’s crash that put him in a chair? Can’t remember for sure.
Wasn't the SX one he bumped against the wall going under the tunnel and bent his rear sprocket?
I believe it was the light from a photographer's camera that blinded him for a moment and he missed the bars with his left hand while he was whipping at the Bercy finish, crashed into some hay bales and was thrown.
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