I'm still not sure if this is a hoax or not... but Transworld says that Pastrana, Sipes, and Windham are riding for Team Puerto Rico at the Motocross of Nations. This lineup actually should have a good showing; supposedly it's for hurricane relief which makes me less suspicious. but still.... If Marvin had a US passport, he could ride for PR too. weird. I'll be watching. ps- looks like my boy Reed will be riding the last outdoor round at Indiana on a JGR Suzi. weirdness continues. Cooper Webb's career isn't over by a long shot.... but everybody saw for the last 8 months that Yamaha was going sign Aaron and Barcia. Plessinger has been with Yamaha for 10 years... insane. Coop needs a solid, injury free year (and asshole-free year) on Red Bull/KTM to get back on top. There's a crop of fast kids moving up to the 450s... might be a couple of game-changers in the group.
Alessi, Villipoto are gone now (well, now that Ryan is happy- maybe some kinda "semi-comeback" is in the works). The last man standing from that class of super 1990s kids is Josh Grant. I'm thinking he may be done now. weirdly, Josh was my least favorite of the 3. Mike could of been great, but I believe his dysfunctional or overbearing family held him back. Just the opposite for Ryan. Time is a funny thing.
nothing about the MXoN but i thought i'd throw Reed's results in- did great 8th O/A. qualified 7th almost hole-shotted the 1st moto 5th for moto 1 hole shot for the 2nd moto running 3rd when he fell and ended up 8th in moto 2 8th O/A pretty damn good... except it was a mudder. Reed has always been good in the mud IMO, so I'm not reading too much into. I hope he can get an SX ride.
