Supercross 2021 Racing BS Thread *spoiler alert*

budman

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Updated the OP with the race reports from AUS MC News and Motocross Action.
 
Motocross Action Pre Race report

The broadcast will be 3 hours plus delayed.

Thanks Budman.
From your link...

NBC SPORTS DELAYED TV BROADCAST:
The NBC Sports Network broadcast of Round 5 will be DELAYED airing at three-and-a-half hours after the actual race at 11:00 PM Eastern Time, 8:00 PM Pacific Time.

PEACOCK PREMIUM LIVE STREAMING:
The weekend races will be aired LIVE on Peacock Premium at 7:30 PM Eastern Time, 4:30 PM Pacific Time.
Qualifying will be live on Peacock Premium starting at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, 10:30 AM Pacific Time.
 

budman

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10:30 AM?? Wow!

Showingqualifying and shit on that Peacock deal is awesome.
 

OaklandF4i

Darwin's exception
Peackcock Premium, its pretty good for $5 a month and you get to see everything live including qualifying and even MX later this year. :thumbup Only downside, is you can't rewind or fast forward when streaming. Its just live (at least on my laptop.) You can rewind and fast forward the replay, but only after the live show is done. But for the price, no complaints.

Need to decide if I am going to make a full day of it like Saturday and watch everything live, or wait until the evening and watch as a replay.

May get out on my FE350 to ride and see if the snow has begun to recede or not.... watching the live qualifying hasn't helped my fantasy picks. :x :laughing
 
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budman

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Here is my picks for tonight.

Tomac
AC
Roczen
Stewart
Webb

balance of the top ten.
Marvin
Bam Bam
Osbourne
Savatgy
Ferrandis

Would love to see Malcolm get a podium!
 

budman

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Fun night of racing.

Damn Jet. Tough kid.
Colt is riding so solid.

Bam Bam a pleasant surprise. :thumbup

Plessinger a bigger one. :wow

Kenny ROCKZened! :port.

He is looking solid. The red plate does look good on the Honda.
 

OaklandF4i

Darwin's exception
I went out and rode yesterday and just barely made it back in time for the first 250 heat. Didnt get my Rckymtvatv fantasy pics in. Fewer TMZ moments yesterday, but some entertaining racing.

Jett Lawrence. Johnny O'Mara (his trainer and coach) has to be losing his shit. That crash was completely avoidable in the heat, yet understandable with a young rider who hasn't matured mentally. The kid has simply been going down too often on a regular basis in practice, timed qualifying, heats and even main races. His championship is over and I was really hoping Honda would just sit him, and then he went and rode that LCQ. While he easily won it, it was as painful to watch as it probably was for him to ride it. THANKfully better heads prevailed and they pulled him off the gate for the final. No reason to ruin him at such a young age. He'll be back, he is going to win a championship, most likely multiple ones, bright future. Just needs to mature.

Mossiman! He was railing it for the first part of the race and keeping Nichols and Craig at bay showing some real speed. While we will never know, I thought he had a chance at winning it before the lapper crashed in front of him derailing the fantastic ride he was putting in. Hoping with the confidence we see more of it. :thumbup

Are we starting to see the contenders rise to the top of the 450 class? Dunno, might still be too early.


Roczen was railing it. If you asked me a couple years ago if he would ever be in this position I would have bet the farm and said no way he comes back from those injuries to this level of riding. Pleasure to watch and cheer for!

I was yelling at my screen for Bam Bam to push in his battle with Tomac. Tomac was charging, but he held him off. Great ride for him and Tomac. :applause

A couple of big question marks for me are AC and Musquin. It seems that AC has lost a little bit of punch. He has shown the speed before, but seems to be lacking it the past couple of races. Is he dealing with an injury or set up? Musquin looked great in his heat race, but outside the top ten in the final? He doesnt seem to be able to move forward in the race setting without a perfect start. Not just this night. Is this going to be the last season for him?

Saturday seems to far away!
 
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budman

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Yeah.. the Mosiman thing sucks. Glad he did not go down, but it did derail him. He was looking strong!
 

onto1wheel

Riding All The Time
Was I imagining it, or did they end up removing the tuff block that did Jett in? I'll bet he's wishing they figured out that bad placement BEFORE it took him out!

(they switched out that other angled tuff block in the left handed 180 that was causing so much grief, too!)
 

budman

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A bunch of dudes jumped near / over it, but I feel ya I think the placement closed the line in an awkward way.

My feels that the crash is still on Jett.
His job is to go fast and not fall down given the track layout. He knew where it was and he hit it.

Now if they pulled that TB in after practice then I could blame the track crew. Bottom line it should have been better, but that tuff block did not jump in front of him. :p
 

onto1wheel

Riding All The Time
I agree, totally on Jett.

I'm just saying it looked to me like they removed the TB after the incident, as if it shouldn't have been there in the first place.
(But hey I should stop blabbering and review the race for actual facts!... except I already erased it, oh well)

Weigant said:
"I’ve heard it was out there because they changed a jump on the inside of the corner (to open up more passing) but they didn’t want riders jumping into the mechanics’ area. But it looks like there was an unintended consequence"

(so maybe things did change? Maybe it did jump out in front of him :teeth)
 

onto1wheel

Riding All The Time
I just reviewed some of the vid, and they definitely removed the offending tuff block for the main races.

I doubt I'll be able to find practice videos to see when or if it suddenly appeared (so I shall continue my conspiracy theory until proven otherwise! :laughing )

(but honestly Jett and team would be complaining if they had someone else to blame)
 
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