I'm certainly AOK with all this... That home court advantage that was so touted at the USAGP where the AMA riders trounced the FIM guys, ..well, the AMA riders just happened to do just about that same work again on their home track ... Easy math ..Talent and skill trump a home court .. Lets hope this holds true for the race tomorrow ... All classes race each other once and anything can happen ...Usually comes down to the last race for settling the results : MX + Open classes ... The Ryan Express in 011 rolling over all the biggest names in EU is a very good example of such a feat ... -- Looks like Ben came to race also ... But, keep in mind that with the FIM rules (?), 2 day racing format, this racing means nothing but a gate pick in the real race tomorrow. Most important thing today to have something in the tank for tomorrows' racing. And Max might be back -- These results are almost funny after watching these 2 AMA guys race all yr ... -- ~4 secs between the current FIM champ and a 2nd yr AMA 250 rider on a 450 bike that he is riding in his second race? This is just a qualifying race ... real results come with 24 hrs... Guess Dean decided he wanted to be a MX racer..
I get a broke link off that page .. These guys are racing in a time zone only 6 hrs behind me ... I get up so late, pretty good timing for me ...
Here's the total break down from qualifying ... -- Top 15 teams from Saturday Qualification 1 France 2 1 FEBVRE, Romain FFM Yamaha Open 1 MUSQUIN, Marvin AMA KTM MX2 1 PAULIN, Gautier MCM Honda MXGP 2 USA 4 2 WEBB, Cooper AMA Yamaha Open 2 MARTIN, Jeremy AMA Yamaha MX2 7 BARCIA, Justin AMA Yamaha MXGP 3 Belgium 8 3 VAN HOREBEEK, Jeremy FMB Yamaha Open 5 LIEBER, Julien FMB Yamaha MX2 5 DE DYCKER, Ken FMB KTM MXGP 4 Germany 10 4 NAGL, Maximilian DMSB Husqvarna MXGP 6 ULLRICH, Dennis DMSB Suzuki Open 10 JACOBI, Henry DMSB KTM MX2 5 New Zealand 10 2 TOWNLEY, Ben MNZ Honda MXGP 8 COOPER, Cody MNZ Honda Open 36 LAMONT, Kayne MNZ Yamaha MX2 6 The Netherlands 12 4 COLDENHOFF, Glenn KNMV Suzuki Open 8 KOUWENBERG, Nick KNMV Honda MX2 22 BOGERS, Brian KNMV KTM MXGP 7 Spain 13 6 ZARAGOZA, Jorge RFME Honda MX2 7 BUTRON, Jose RFME KTM MXGP 27 VALENTIN, Ander RFME Yamaha Open 8 Austria 14 4 RAUCHENECKER, Pascal OeAMTC KTM MX2 10 SCHMIDINGER, Günter OeAMTC Honda Open 16 NEURAUTER, Lukas OeAMTC KTM MXGP 9 Switzerland 15 3 SEEWER, Jeremy FMS Suzuki MX2 12 GUILLOD, Valentin FMS Yamaha MXGP 24 BAUMGARTNER, Andy FMS KTM Open 10 Estonia 16 7 KULLAS, Harri EMF Husqvarna MX2 9 LEOK, Tanel EMF Kawasaki Open 10 RATSEP, Priit EMF Honda MXGP 11 Australia 16 7 FERRIS, Dean MA Husqvarna Open 9 WATERS, Todd MA Husqvarna MXGP 24 CLOUT, Luke MA Yamaha MX2 12 Great Britain 16 5 WILSON, Dean AMA KTM Open 11 SIMPSON, Shaun ACU KTM MXGP 35 ANSTIE, Max ACU Kawasaki MX2 13 Sweden 21 8 BENGTSSON, Filip SVEMO Honda MXGP 13 JÖNSSON, Jesper SVEMO Husqvarna Open 14 ÖSTLUND, Alvin SVEMO Yamaha MX2 14 Italy 26 11 CERVELLIN, Michele FMI Honda MX2 15 BERNARDINI, Samuele FMI TM Open 19 MONTICELLI, Ivo FMI KTM MXGP 15 Ireland 27 12 IRWIN, Graeme MCUI Suzuki MX2 15 BARR, Martin MCUI KTM MXGP 17 EDMONDS, Stuart MCUI Honda Open
Down to the final day of racing .... Then another day or 2 of crying ... Then onto 016 and SX racing, waiting on the MX racing later in 016 ... Ain't life grand? And we get 017 Huskies ... These are the models that might break away from the current models that are so KTMish... By 019, I might can purchase one of these bikes at a price that seems reasonable ... Same plan, same Bat Channel that I have written out here before ... With the Huskies selling so well, SP is gonna have a hard time making a ~big change between the Huskies and the orange bikes.... That's his call ... And the beat goes on and the beat goes on ... -- I'll just add, that the smooch fest on the web with the French is getting a little hard to read today ... In the interest of good public reading, I certainly hope someone puts an end to it.
I'm with you buddy ... That's both the 250 AND 450 models ... Specifically, the ones with the small stars&stripes sticker on them... Women and children... Please stand back as our riders do the work required ...
