![]() We should race like we practice and that’s giving it your all.” When you start trying to protect things or take it easy that’s when you’re not at your best. ![]() To give anything less than our best, even with the position we’re in, to leave anything on the table we work too hard not to give it our all. And we’ve said it before: not just myself and my trainer and my family and my team of people around me, and Team Red Bull KTM, we put in a lot of work. “The big picture is obviously in our minds but at the same time each and every race is still valuable, to get the race wins. Nope, not gonna happen under Aldon Baker’s watch and I asked Dungey about pushing so hard when he’s basically got this title wrapped up. We’ve seen how mental this sport is (see Barcia, Justin last summer) so Dungey knows he can’t let the German get some wins and maybe, just maybe, start thinking that he can beat Dungey. The great Ross “Rollerball” Pederson used to tell me that he was ok with his rival beating him once, maybe twice but any more than that and they start to get confidence and he could not let that happen. Please spare me this (I have heard it a bunch) and watch the last three races where Ryan has been pushing it to try and beat Roczen. I really hope you’re not one of these dudes that thinks Dungey’s in the mindset (term trademark/copyright Jeff Emig) of knowing that he’s got this title wrapped up and he doesn’t have to win. In the end, Dungey got’er done like he has in the last year and a half and he needs to put two points on Roczen this weekend in Foxborough (another day race) to clinch a third 450SX title. Years from now, no one’s going to remember how close Roczen came to winning. They pay on what you actually placed and Roczen “actually placed” second three times despite some real challenges to Dungey. Kenny rode great but the FIM doesn’t give out extra points and the OEM’s don’t pay extra bonus money for “great rides”. Yeah, Soaring Eagle/Jimmy John’s/RCH Suzuki’s Ken Roczen caught him, briefly made a pass for the lead and then washed the front end out halfway through the main and… there went Dungey for a third straight win and Roczen took his third straight second place. Yay! Or Nay! Whatever you may think of the Red Bull KTM rider there’s no doubt he’s back on a roll again. The original track map had the start straight going the length of the stadium but when we got there it was way shorter. The whoops broke down like crazy and the sand section…ehhh, whatever. Great traction and a couple of rhythm sections with different options made for some good racing. The track was pretty good thanks to the dirt. If it helps the sport reach new people and then they start reading about the sport more on then that’s all cool with me. Some things were cool about it and some things sucked. My thoughts: It was different, it was weird, but whatever. Feld Motor Sports made the change to fit into a live time slot on Fox Network, which reaches a lot more homes than FS1 (the normal SX network) and all day long people in the sport wanted to know what you thought of the race being during the day. Yes this is early and no I didn’t make it on time. This was the second ever day supercross race (last year East Rutherford was the first) and featured a track walk at 7 a.m. What’s with the Midwest fans and wearing jerseys to the track? Louis and there are two things you can count on when it comes to this race: One, the dirt is just epic and two the fans pack the pits. Round 14 of Monster Energy Supercross (can you hear that sound of a fifth gear pinned 250F? That’s the outdoors, bro) took place in St.
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