Here's his words afterwards ... This dude's a clinic and understands safety-first. http://www.mxlarge.com/2015/03/08/ryan-villopoto-interview-winner/
Ryan is a super professional top tier racer, gives respect to the others and promotes racer safety, class act all the way around. I spoke with a former MXGP world champ on saturday, I dont even think he thought Ryan would top the box just yet. The guy is a calculating smart racer for sure, its a good year for the world championship.
Check out the CN interview, it is really good. http://cyclenews.uberflip.com/t/24308 Says the 101 degree weather was a shock and he had nothing for the two guys in front of him ont he second moto. Also said he is focused on overalls not race wins. Great interview. This guy must be getting really tired and distracted by the crazy media frenzy.
About MXGP- This gentleman racer was with our group this past weekend, he's a great rep to our sport and overall super nice guy. Props for DLP Danny LaPorte Danny LaPorte was a champion in the AMA series in the early '80s. After winning the 500cc AMA title in 1979, LaPorte rode on Team USA to their first win ever in the Motocross of Nations, the beginning of a 13-year winning streak that officially marked the changing of the guard in motocross world domination. LaPorte then set his sights on the World Championship, and in 1982, in his first attempt, LaPorte won the 250 world title, which along with Lackey’s 500cc championship marked the most dominant year ever for America in world motocross. And I believe that Danny won the 250cc just before Bad Brad got his 500cc title, so officially Danny was the first GP champ from US
Here's a little more on LaPorte I found on the web ... This guy is for-real and gives some very good insight from the ground level of racing ... http://www.motoxaddicts.com/2015/03/18/inside-story-danny-laporte-interview-rv2/ -- Danny Laporte has seen it all in the sport of motocross. Way back in 1979, LaPorte won the AMA 500cc national championship. Two years later in 1981 he was part of the victorious American Motocross des Nations team, marking the first time an American team had won the prestigious event. Seeking new challenges, LaPorte decided to compete at the world championship level in 1982 riding for the Yamaha factory racing team. In his first attempt, he claimed the FIM 250cc motocross world championship against the heavily favored Georges Jobé. Laporte has lived the dream or many young American riders from the 1970s and 80s to moved to Eurpe and gone home with the number one plate. A very similar story to that of Ryan Villopoto. We caught up with Laporte and asked him about the challenge ahead for his fellow American Ryan Villopoto and the first two rounds run in Qatar and Thailand. Danny, thanks for your time. Did you get a chance to watch either of the first two rounds of the MXGP series? I watched the first round in Qatar and then watched the highlights from the second one in Thailand. Obviously the opening round in Qatar Ryan struggled a little. What is your opinion of that opening round? I think he was probably surprised how many fast guys there are in qualification. I remember for me I went out in my first one in Switzerland. I had to qualify for the first one and I couldn’t get inside the top ten and I had to work hard to make the top ten. The race is different, there are a lot of fast guys who know how to make quick lap times in qualification, but race strategy is another story. I am not sure he knew that was going to happen. -- You can't get sitting behind a starting gate (or any other type of racing start) without being on a starting line ... If ya really want to see what PRO motorcycle racers deal with in a race, go do a race... It'll bring your bike riding to a higher level possibility and when you watch the racing, you'll get a better understanding of their work out there. I'm thinking maybe more American riders might take the EU path in the future if RV2 works out well over there for the bean counters ...
