Maybe James is burnt-out,seems like some guys find it looses the fun factor,more like a job they hate.Hats off to Reed,still fast after all these years.
Davalos could not make it to toronto due to visa issue . Now wtf ? Who's the dumbass to blame there ? Big fat canadian custom guy or his fellow us buddy? No intent to TRUMPet here, but they let by all sorts of criminals and the leader of a world famous championship is not allowed ? As a consequence, husqvarna loses the red plate and the opportunity to win a championship. Grrrr
Toronto. Really tough track. Lots of flat tires. The riders were beat. Ran into Blake Bagget at Gretsky's!
Concerning Bagget, maybe you guys saw it, he made an early start in the semi , so he blocked his gate and started last, but then.... RED FLAG ! New start, he did not miss it this time, and was qualified. Do you think it is fair for the riders who made a good first start but were not so good at restart and lost qualification ?
First supercross experience. Tough to adjust to rooting for just one solo Husky rider but Anderson really didn't disappoint. Ran into a team Geico member in the elevator at the Marriot and he was pretty distraught from the chaos that happened to his riders. Overall....amazed at the dialed in suspension on these bikes...made the track LOOK easy but pretty sure it was far from it. Also pretty cool to see a female entry...interesting at how low key that was played off...Have 2 young girls and would have loved to hear this highlighted over the sound system for my 7 yr old It was pretty evident that she was a female rider....not a dig...just noted the feminine style which was pretty dang smooth other than whoops
Vicki Golden is a local product (for us). She's been busting her a$$ for a while to qualify. See her at the local tracks once in a while. No bones about it - she is fast. Just not as fast as the fast guys in the stacked 250 Class.
If a lot of females are pretty fast on mx tracks ( our local is Livia Lancelot and she must be way faster than I am ) , I don't think it is a great idea to go and ride a sx track between the world top riders. Being lapped in no time, risk to injure herself or others, ... Where is the pleasure there ?
Who ever qualifies should be able to race. Lots of riders get lapped, as long as they obey the blue flag there shouldn't be a safety issue. Getting in there and racing with the best is the fastest way to learn. It's too bad there aren't enough top level women to have their own class at every SX race. Endurocross does a good job fielding a competitive women's class.
I kinda disagree I wish they would do a rule where you had to be within "x" amount of time of the leader to get in....
Tennis and golf, two individual sports have proven that women cannot compete with men at least at present. And it is not even close. Women need their own venues. It will be plenty obvious when they reach a level and can compete with men. Even in Indy cars where they bebefit a little by saving overall car weight, they don't win or even podium.
Small guys do go fast- talent plus focus plus muscle; Roger Decoster was actually a small guy in the 70's, everybody remembers RC when he first lined up at a national- the bars were almost over his head. Athletic women, generally are smaller without the testosterone brute muscle. You need the brute muscle to save yourself when you make a mistake.[if you save it..]-that said, simply thousands more guys race than girls. The bigger the ranks the more likely there will be a James Stewart if given the chance. There will be a smokin' fast miss-no disrespect to the current crop; I believe it will take more time.
Another crazy night of racing, Dungey penalized, Anderson gets the win. I'm waiting for the clip of how Musquin and JA went from 3 & 5 seconds back to 10 & 12 with JA ahead http://www.dailymotion.com/user/MOTOARCHIVE/1
Did not know about Dungey , we stopped watching after the checkered flag. We was surprised how musquin lost 4sec to anderson in the very last corners
Dungey is on a whole other level from the rest.... crazy how much better.... almost like RV, RC and MC were....
Yeah, silly announcers said JA passed at the finish, but if you watch the timing and scoring it changes quite a few turns before. "On Lap 7, Dungey approached a red cross flag for a downed rider, requiring riders to roll each jump until clear of the incident. The championship leader failed to adhere to the flag and as a result was penalized two positions by race officials. Racing continued and a mistake by Musquin on Lap 17 put the Frenchman on the ground briefly, forcing him to lose second to Anderson. Dungey went on to take the checkered flag but Anderson would be awarded the win." http://www.motoxaddicts.com/2016/03/19/anderson-and-stewart-win-at-2016-detroit-sx/
Good to see JA with a second win this season for HVA, with hopefully more to come as he seems to take it more seriously now with his training programme compared to last year's JA who used to spend too much time on friends/beer/pizzas... which of course don't hurt once in a while
