AMA MX Nationals 2014

[scott411]

Starting in a couple of Weeks at Glen Helen,

RV's out for Knee surgery, so no defending Champ, so its up for Grabs,

Contenders, 450

KTM, Dungey and Roczen, I would suggest Dungey would have to be favorite right now,
Suzuki, Stewart, how is his knee, looked ok at Vegas, should be ready to go, can he last out a season, he managed to finish his first SX season in about 5 years, Pieck and Tedesco get there chances on facotry backed 450's though RCH,
HOnda, Tomac and Hahn (when hes back) on Geico bikes, and Barcia and Canard on Factory ones,
Yamaha, can JGR get some form that Brayton showed early on,
Kawasaki, get Melcalf back from Canada to fill in for RV, and Weimer has looked pretty good in the last 2 races, and is Chad ready to go on the Two Two mahine,

250,
Can anyone stop the PC Kawi team, Bagget and Wilson are both former title holders, best chanced i reckon are Musquin on the factroy KTM, and Osbourne on the Geico Honda, can Anderson, Seely and Bogle bring their form from Supercross and step up in the outdoors,

Sky has not shown the outdoors for a long time, and i doubt we will get it this year, but they normally have pretty good online highlight packages available,

Scott

[thorns]

Really looking forward to this, with RV gone, it might actually make the racing even closer and more exciting from a spectator point of view, although at the same time, watching RV go nuts outdoor is incredible to watch, so kinda mixed emotions.

450's : IF Stewart can keep it on two wheels and his knee is all good, I think he has it, with RV out I think he has the field covered speed wise without having to go 10/10ths the whole time. Dungey will be right there as his usual Mr consistency. Roczen to show some flashes of brilliance like in SX this year, but not sure he can keep a whole season charge going. Would love to see Millsaps and Reed come back and show some of the speed they have, although not sure if either are back to full fitness yet, or plan to race there way back? Barcia and Canard will be right there as well, would love to see a full healthy season out of Canard and what he can achieve.

250's: Bagget, I really think he's going to smoke the field again, similar to what he did a few years back.

[scott411]

250's: Bagget, I really think he's going to smoke the field again, similar to what he did a few years back.

I think more Wilson, he smoked everyone incl Baggett to win the title a few years ago,

it would not surprise me to see some more PC podium sweeps, with Durham and Justin Hill being pretty good as well, before AC gets back even, (if he comes back at all this year)

[thorns]

I really like Wilson, but he just doesn't seem to have the consistency at the moment, the amount of times he does silly things and throws it away is crazy, kind of frustrating to follow. Is he a better outdoors rider than SX? Would rather see Wilson win over Baggett, as he's a real likeable character.

Hoping we can get the live streaming from Alisports again this year, always up early Sundays as my morning to get up early with the daughter, so works out well when its live.

[scott411]

I really like Wilson, but he just doesn't seem to have the consistency at the moment, the amount of times he does silly things and throws it away is crazy, kind of frustrating to follow. Is he a better outdoors rider than SX? Would rather see Wilson win over Baggett, as he's a real likeable character.

Hoping we can get the live streaming from Alisports again this year, always up early Sundays as my morning to get up early with the daughter, so works out well when its live.

yeah me to, might even try to get to a round if it works out ok,

[barty5]

yeah me to, might even try to get to a round if it works out ok,

think we have decided after going to Metlife that we will head to Unadilla in August 200 miles so bout a 3 hr drive

[scott411]

think we have decided after going to Metlife that we will head to Unadilla in August 200 miles so bout a 3 hr drive

Unadilla is ment to be pretty awesome,

[barty5]

Unadilla is ment to be pretty awesome,

yeah couple a guy we spoke to at metlife said same thing they were down from Nantucket island which in its self made that trip a mission.
let us know if you end up over to Unadella sure we could put yah up if needed were 1/2 way between Boston and NY

[scott411]

yeah couple a guy we spoke to at metlife said same thing they were down from Nantucket island which in its self made that trip a mission.
let us know if you end up over to Unadella sure we could put yah up if needed were 1/2 way between Boston and NY

thanks for the offer, not sure my plans just yet, bit of stuff to sort out, planning on being at a nascar race at the end of august and i have to see what works,

[thorns]

Jealous of you guys going to the races.

The two events I'd love to attend over there is the Monster Energy Cup, and Red Bud.
Red Bud seems to be a pretty crazy weekend, would be epic to rock up to that with a camper and cut loose for the weekend!

[barty5]

Jealous of you guys going to the races.

The two events I'd love to attend over there is the Monster Energy Cup, and Red Bud.
Red Bud seems to be a pretty crazy weekend, would be epic to rock up to that with a camper and cut loose for the weekend!

If im really really lucky we have some friends due up in vagas when the monster cup is on we are ment to be going over to catch up with them

[scott411]

Jealous of you guys going to the races.

The two events I'd love to attend over there is the Monster Energy Cup, and Red Bud.
Red Bud seems to be a pretty crazy weekend, would be epic to rock up to that with a camper and cut loose for the weekend!

ye Red Bud is one i have always wanted to go to as well,

and vegas, is just worth going to any weekend,

[scott411]

forgot about Pourcell back in the 250 class, and also the Martins and Cooper Web on Yamaha's, they should be up there,

[motor_mayhem]

Really looking forward to this, with RV gone, it might actually make the racing even closer and more exciting from a spectator point of view, although at the same time, watching RV go nuts outdoor is incredible to watch, so kinda mixed emotions.

450's : IF Stewart can keep it on two wheels and his knee is all good, I think he has it, with RV out I think he has the field covered speed wise without having to go 10/10ths the whole time. Dungey will be right there as his usual Mr consistency. Roczen to show some flashes of brilliance like in SX this year, but not sure he can keep a whole season charge going. Would love to see Millsaps and Reed come back and show some of the speed they have, although not sure if either are back to full fitness yet, or plan to race there way back? Barcia and Canard will be right there as well, would love to see a full healthy season out of Canard and what he can achieve.

250's: Bagget, I really think he's going to smoke the field again, similar to what he did a few years back.

450's : before Tomac crashed I would have said he might have a good chance BUT with him injured and Dunge and Roczen carrying some momentum in they should be good. You never know what Reed will bring to the table. If Stewart can get back into his Toronto mentality he'd be unstoppable but not sure if he can get there and keep it for pretty much the series.

250's: wouldn't count out Webb or JMart who were good in Supercross and podiumed at outdoors last year. Would pick Bagget over Wilson at the moment as Wilson seems to be plagued with that arm pump - if he sorts that out then who knows

[FlangMasterJ]

The Malcolm brothers one and two all season.

[takitimu]

ye Red Bud is one i have always wanted to go to as well,

and vegas, is just worth going to any weekend,

Mate flew up to redbud last year, absolutely loved it.

With any luck I'll do Budds Creek, though work & visa's might conspire against that.

Check out Rockzen http://instagram.com/p/nsp0Wkp0GG/

[thorns]

Excited for this!

By sounds of it, first motos are live and free to view on www.promotocross.com , but the 2nd ones wont be live unless you can find a stream somewhere.

8am start tomorrow morning.

[scott411]

Excited for this!

By sounds of it, first motos are live and free to view on www.promotocross.com , but the 2nd ones wont be live unless you can find a stream somewhere.

8am start tomorrow morning.

they are saying that for international people the 2nd motos should be able to be seen

[thorns]

Even better!

Hope that is the case, been hard to find actualy confirmed info this year about what exactly is happening in regards to coverage, be magic if you are correct!

[FlangMasterJ]

Excited for this!

By sounds of it, first motos are live and free to view on www.promotocross.com , but the 2nd ones wont be live unless you can find a stream somewhere.

8am start tomorrow morning.

8am for practice and 11am first moto?

[thorns]

8am first moto

[thorns]

http://stream.nbcsports.com/motocross/?pid=84&referrer=http://www.promotocross.com/

its here!

[thorns]

WOW, what a race to start the season.

[thorns]

moto 2 link

http://stream.nbcsports.com/motocross/index_motocross-international.html

[FlangMasterJ]

8am first moto

Ah fuck it!!

Do they do replays straight after on that same streaming page?

[thorns]

If you go back to this link here, it seems you can go back in time on the time bar at the bottom, so should be able to rewind to the start.

http://stream.nbcsports.com/motocross/?pid=84&referrer=http://www.promotocross.com/

[FlangMasterJ]

If you go back to this link here, it seems you can go back in time on the time bar at the bottom, so should be able to rewind to the start.

http://stream.nbcsports.com/motocross/?pid=84&referrer=http://www.promotocross.com/

Thanks thorns.

I did a time conversion the other day and was sure it started at 11am but obviously I fucked up.

[thorns]

450 moto 2 wrapped up, another must view!

What a start to the season.

[Jay GTI]

The slicknick torrents are on piratebay already, if you want to download instead.

[scott411]

interesting day, I cant remember a time where a PC or Geico bike has not been on the podium at a 250 national,

The KTM boys will be tuff to pull back, both Reed and Stewart were off the pace,

and I dont think any one would have picked a star racing yamaha 1-2,

[thorns]

2nd motos about to start - http://www.justin.tv/besweeet66

450 moto 1 was epic, hoping for the same!

[Jay GTI]

A remarkably orange start to the season, I was hoping K-Roc was going to do well and perhaps he'd be more in his natural element outdoors, but wasn't expecting this...

[scott411]

A remarkably orange start to the season, I was hoping K-Roc was going to do well and perhaps he'd be more in his natural element outdoors, but wasn't expecting this...

neither was I, it was good to see a couple of more winners this weekend with Stewart and Baggett getting moto wins,

[FlangMasterJ]

Yep the KTM boys are killing it right now. I'm hoping James is getting a head of steam up.

[scott411]

well Blake Baggett and James Stewart both proved today that they should not be discounted, great 1-1 for both of them,

[thorns]

http://racerxonline.com/2014/06/17/3-on-3-questions-after-high-point

Just been reading this. Anyone on here with an inside line able to comment on the Townley to Honda as a replacement? I know its pure speculation on there part, but could it happen, would it be something BT would look at?

[scott411]

http://racerxonline.com/2014/06/17/3-on-3-questions-after-high-point

Just been reading this. Anyone on here with an inside line able to comment on the Townley to Honda as a replacement? I know its pure speculation on there part, but could it happen, would it be something BT would look at?

not going to happen,

he did however briefly consider going to do Red Bud under Nick Weys Mafia Moto team tent, however this was while he was drinking rather heavily with Nick at the after party at the Manjiump 15000, it was not such a great idea in the morning,

[motor_mayhem]

not going to happen,

he did however briefly consider going to do Red Bud under Nick Weys Mafia Moto team tent, however this was while he was drinking rather heavily with Nick at the after party at the Manjiump 15000, it was not such a great idea in the morning,

I see he's instagramin' pictures of Barcia's bike. Is he trying to do a Reed and get the fans all wound up?

[thorns]

not going to happen,

he did however briefly consider going to do Red Bud under Nick Weys Mafia Moto team tent, however this was while he was drinking rather heavily with Nick at the after party at the Manjiump 15000, it was not such a great idea in the morning,


Thought that would be the case, but was clinging to the small chance it might happen.

[scott411]

I see he's instagramin' pictures of Barcia's bike. Is he trying to do a Reed and get the fans all wound up?

yes, he is doing the Reed thing and winding people up on the internet, doing quite well,

[motor_mayhem]

yes, he is doing the Reed thing and winding people up on the internet, doing quite well,

Lucky we've got your inside info or I'd be joining the masses of hyped-up fans, really!

I can't wait for another Kiwi to get on that gate

[thorns]

Do we have any young guns at the moment close to getting into the AMA or MXGP races?

I see Josiah Natzke (spelling?) is off to do a few Euro 125cc rounds. Is there anyone else with plans like that?

[scott411]

Do we have any young guns at the moment close to getting into the AMA or MXGP races?

I see Josiah Natzke (spelling?) is off to do a few Euro 125cc rounds. Is there anyone else with plans like that?

yeah Nazke is going off to do 2 or 3 rounds of ther EMX125, and the world juniors in belgium, I will be at the Czech GP so will hopefully catch up,

[FlangMasterJ]

http://racerxonline.com/2014/06/19/james-stewart-found-positive-of-banned-substance-at-seattle-sx

Thoughts?

[scott411]

http://racerxonline.com/2014/06/19/james-stewart-found-positive-of-banned-substance-at-seattle-sx

Thoughts?

dont have all the information yet, only Suzuki's press release is out,

the banned drug list is massive and remember Josh got caught up in this a while back as well for an over the counter flu medicine, ill wait till i hear the WADA/AMA side first,

[thorns]

Vitalmx is living up to its Vitard status at the moment, entertainment at least for a slow Friday arvo.

[scott411]

Vitalmx is living up to its Vitard status at the moment, entertainment at least for a slow Friday arvo.

im surprised it has not crashed,

if it was RV or JS it was always going to be like that, that place is the worst when one of those two are on,

interesting tho, There was a Nascar driver banned for using ADHD meds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozcm9OX9_jw

[thorns]

I think if it was Mike Alessi it would have crashed the internet!

[scott411]

I think if it was Mike Alessi it would have crashed the internet!

ha ha your right there, but Jeff response would be a 100 pager for sure,

the laser gate thread was just awesome,

I have met some of the guys off there, the infamous BobbyM and 500guy, both are very nice people face to face,

[FlangMasterJ]

dont have all the information yet, only Suzuki's press release is out,

the banned drug list is massive and remember Josh got caught up in this a while back as well for an over the counter flu medicine, ill wait till i hear the WADA/AMA side first,

I'm hoping they don't make a big deal out of it.

[scott411]

I'm hoping they don't make a big deal out of it.

to late I feel, be interesting to see what the penalties are,

[motor_mayhem]

I'm hoping they don't make a big deal out of it.

I would hope that too - but only if he wasn't actually attempting to cheat. We may never really know.

As someone else somewhere has said, I'm glad it has generally put to bed any ideas about what RV could be doing

[Jay GTI]

Total orange domination again, Roczen and Dungey finished a minute ahead of the next rider...

Shitty weekend for Stewart, especially as he eventually finished a lap down on Roczen in the 2nd moto.

[scott411]

Baggett with the last minute pass on Cooper Webb in the first 250 moto was pretty awesome, never giving up at its finest,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW8rU2vqa-Q

[motor_mayhem]

Total orange domination again, Roczen and Dungey finished a minute ahead of the next rider...

Shitty weekend for Stewart, especially as he eventually finished a lap down on Roczen in the 2nd moto.

the next rider who was on his first weekend back since late SX, had the fastest qualifying and lead half the first race?

[Jay GTI]

the next rider who was on his first weekend back since late SX, had the fastest qualifying and lead half the first race?

Who had the lead handed back to him in the first race because Roczen dropped his bike after effortlessly scrubbing past him on the first lap, plus Dungey got caught up in the first turn pile-up, yet both recovered to 1-2 for KTM. Second moto, clean race, both just wandered off into the distance.

[thorns]

Great racing in the 250's, the end to that first moto was edge of the seat stuff, couldnt believe he got him over the line. Moto 2 was shaping up for another close one, didnt see what happened though, seemed bagget, Bogle, and Pourcel all went down??

450's was great to see Tomac back, obviously hasnt lost any outright speed, just perhaps not up to race fitness yet. Hopefuly he can come on strong in the rest of the series and mix up the results a bit, getting sick of these Orange bikes destroying the field! Bad weeked for Bubba, terrrible starts screwed up the weekend it seemed, but was quick once he got back going, just a blip on the radar I hope.

[Mattr]

how do I watch the MX?

[scott411]

how do I watch the MX?

Pro motocross.com for first motos then normally a Justin TV link for the second

They normally have them up on YouTube pretty quick as well