New Homes for Shimoda, Vohland, Kitchen, DiFrancesco and More | 250 Silly Season 1

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There's a ton of movement in the 250 class for 2024, with every major team seeing long-time faces leave and new ones incoming. Find out where Jo Shimoda, Hunter Lawrence, Jalek Swoll, Levi Kitchen, Max Vohland, Michael Mosiman, Ryder DiFrancesco, Jett Reynolds, and more. For the full Silly Season list, check out our website feature here: https://www.vitalmx.com/features/silly-season-2024-diving-deeper-round-…

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Moto Braap
1 year ago

The question now is who has the aggression and speed.  Last time Savatgy wasn’t as aggressive and the nice guy rider didn’t work even though it made him more popular he didn’t get the championship.  There are a lot of nice guys in this class who aren’t gonna take anyone out so my storyline is gonna be if or who can outrun a more aggressive rider.  If they are all similar in laptimes we know a name like Thrasher would put a move on you to make a pass but we are also seeing a Kitchen can surprise you with a runaway win.
 

I don’t want to see bar banging as a way toward a championship.  I think the majority of these kids have the talent and class to not take each other out.  Race hard with good lines and leave it at that because there’s a lot of big boys on the track to keep track of.  I don’t want to see stupid accidents where people get hurt either.  These racers invest too much to throw it away or make someone else go down and the announcers shouldn’t be doing any “return the favor” talk cause it’s no favor for anyone.  I’d rather be bored than see fake or unnecessary aggression that is praised.  
 

Plenty of good guys won without resorting to stupid so please remember John Dowd or Brownie so you can race into your 70’s or triple digits instead of having to be tough breaking bones every year taking showers with bubble wrap on your stuff plated and life screwed.  
 

All these racers could and should be contenders and I won’t  complain because of the work they put in.  Just imagine there’s only top 10 spots in 250 racing and some teams have up to 5 riders so team tactics are in play but I will be bitching if i see something unfair not penalized by the promoters and they also already have people to look out for the little guy racers so they don’t get picked on and have a fair chance.  Lawrence got his championships forcing his way to the front with talent not too dangerously but he had some run-ins and take-outs (and i aint talking Chinese food) so I hope there will be less of that.  It is pretty obvious who’s going for it or who’s out of control desperate so be a good roll model to the kids in the stands you once were only a few years ago or maybe 10 and similarly still full of youth talent and aspiration.  
 

I can see a lot of possible champs like Vialle hitting the podium and sometimes having to take a 5th if 4 dudes are in front of you that you can’t pass without taking all of them out.  If someone dominates that’s cool too but they are gonna have to put a lot of clean passes on “the best in the business” like Lawrence did.

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