They both turned pro in 09.

yeah because Pourcel is one of those guys who needs mud to win races

I'm looking for a Ken Roczen breakout =]

I think he will actually enjoy racing again.

Good second race... Pourcel charged hard early and it caught up to him late. Unfortunately this weekend murdered his championship

Bayle was over 20 years ago, and albertyn came over here and raced for 4 or 5 years before winning a title, having adjusted to the tougher competition. All I'm saying is it is very rare for a GP champ to come over here and roll our best riders. Like I said the reason they all come over here is to race against THE WORLD'S BEST.

It was a mistake. I've been saying it all along. A point that I would just like to make to the usual mob sprinting to crucify him is that this mistake is the reason for the bad race. It's not because he sat on his *** all offseason and didn't train or test. You are bringing up a race from 6 years ago in the mx2 class. A lot has changed for him since then. He hasn't raced deep sand in 5 years and he and the team spent no time testing and training in the sand this offseason. If he spends two weeks in holland before the season I be that he goes at least 5-5 last weekend. This is not a fitness or a lack of hard work issue. It was a lack of being smart and preparing correctly issue. I bet that the same guy that raced in valkenswaard last weekend would have been fighting for the win in sevlievo.

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now you're just being dumb. I never said we have a second tier series, I said that Ciaroli is as fast as our fast guys. All those guys you mention all came to get paid, plain and simple. They all want to race and win American Supercross because thats where all the money is. Roczen was trying to work out a deal to race supercross and then go back to Europe for the GPs.

The biggest contributer to our all but 5 MXoNs, is the size of our country. it takes three countrys just to make Texas. Do you know how hard it is to find three guys to win that race if you only had one of our states to pick from?

Ken DeDycker is one of the best sand riders out there and that KTM is probably the best bike out there.

Not an excuse. Reality. There is no excuse for him not leaving marseille this offseason.

Roczen is no saint either, he slapped Petrov ( excuse my spelling) around head at the end of a gp for not getting out of his way whilst leading by a considerable distance! went right down in my opinion , quite glad seeing him getting a lesson in riding fron barcia this season!