Still Kicking!
Well folks we are sorry we have been away for a while, but it has been overwhelmingly busy at work and I have been slacking with my dedication to Motodirt, and it's millions of readers. OK so I'm lying about the millions of readers part. But there are enough of you out there to keep us coming back to writing. Problem is my partner in crime never gets time to write anything, either.
No too much new to talk about in the SX scene this season that is not getting beaten to death by everyone else. RC retired (for now) and left Bubba to be the new king. And thus far the big #7 has lived up to the billing. There is no championship battle in the big boys class, it is Reed scratching his head looking for speed, and Stewart handing out beat-down after beat-down!
The boys in the East Coast Lites division are throwing down, that battle is going down to the wire, spread between 3 SX rookies in Darcy Lange, Ryan Morais, and Ben Townley. But the real story could be the fact that Makita/Suzuki rookie Ryan Dungey might have been just as dominant as the other Ryan out West, had it not been for a string of amazingly bizarre incidents, virtually none of which were even close to his fault.
IRONIC TWISTS: In Ryan Villopoto's domination in the West Coast Lites series, the kid was just so much quicker than everyone that even a mid-pack start could not keep him off the box. Or even out of the #1 spot. On one occasion, Villopoto had to overcome a strange crash, in which a rider from another part of the track crashed in front of him as he landed a triple. RV had no chance to avoid the tumbling bike and crashed pretty hard. He was able to get up and still win the race. It was one of the few bumps RV saw in his run for the title.
In an odd twist, Ryan Dungey in the East series had the same exact thing happen. As he broke into the lead, another rider who had a bad start crashed from another part of the track and took out Dungey. He was able to get back up and into the race, and still had a chance to win. It would have been a huge win for the Suzuki rider, and could have propelled his momentum. But impossibly, the original crash that caused the rider to cross lanes and take out Dungey, eventually resulted in a Red-flag, and a restart of the race. But in an amazingly bad twist of fate for Dungey, his bike, having suffered some electrical damage in the crash, would not restart once it had been shut off for the Red-flag. There was no time to fix the problem, and Dungey was forced to take a DNF.
This is not something you see every day in Supercross. You might see it once every 5 years if you are lucky. And I'm not sure I've ever seen it where the leader was taken out by an errant bike jumping across lanes. Yet this year we've seen it twice, once to a title contender in each series. RV was able to overcome his, Dungey was not. But the argument could be made that had Dungey been able to win that race, his season might have been much different.
Tune in next week for a special feature about Mike Alessi.
Well folks we are sorry we have been away for a while, but it has been overwhelmingly busy at work and I have been slacking with my dedication to Motodirt, and it's millions of readers. OK so I'm lying about the millions of readers part. But there are enough of you out there to keep us coming back to writing. Problem is my partner in crime never gets time to write anything, either.
No too much new to talk about in the SX scene this season that is not getting beaten to death by everyone else. RC retired (for now) and left Bubba to be the new king. And thus far the big #7 has lived up to the billing. There is no championship battle in the big boys class, it is Reed scratching his head looking for speed, and Stewart handing out beat-down after beat-down!
The boys in the East Coast Lites division are throwing down, that battle is going down to the wire, spread between 3 SX rookies in Darcy Lange, Ryan Morais, and Ben Townley. But the real story could be the fact that Makita/Suzuki rookie Ryan Dungey might have been just as dominant as the other Ryan out West, had it not been for a string of amazingly bizarre incidents, virtually none of which were even close to his fault.
IRONIC TWISTS: In Ryan Villopoto's domination in the West Coast Lites series, the kid was just so much quicker than everyone that even a mid-pack start could not keep him off the box. Or even out of the #1 spot. On one occasion, Villopoto had to overcome a strange crash, in which a rider from another part of the track crashed in front of him as he landed a triple. RV had no chance to avoid the tumbling bike and crashed pretty hard. He was able to get up and still win the race. It was one of the few bumps RV saw in his run for the title.
In an odd twist, Ryan Dungey in the East series had the same exact thing happen. As he broke into the lead, another rider who had a bad start crashed from another part of the track and took out Dungey. He was able to get back up and into the race, and still had a chance to win. It would have been a huge win for the Suzuki rider, and could have propelled his momentum. But impossibly, the original crash that caused the rider to cross lanes and take out Dungey, eventually resulted in a Red-flag, and a restart of the race. But in an amazingly bad twist of fate for Dungey, his bike, having suffered some electrical damage in the crash, would not restart once it had been shut off for the Red-flag. There was no time to fix the problem, and Dungey was forced to take a DNF.
This is not something you see every day in Supercross. You might see it once every 5 years if you are lucky. And I'm not sure I've ever seen it where the leader was taken out by an errant bike jumping across lanes. Yet this year we've seen it twice, once to a title contender in each series. RV was able to overcome his, Dungey was not. But the argument could be made that had Dungey been able to win that race, his season might have been much different.
Tune in next week for a special feature about Mike Alessi.
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