A2 Heat Race Report
Saturday, February 5, 2011 | 11:50 PM
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Forget everything you learned in practice. Hansen crashed? Stewart sat out? Whatever. Check this out.
Lites Heat 1: Kyle Cunningham has been fast all year, but starts and crashes have done him in. He grabbed the holeshot in the first heat, and proved he indeed can deliver when the situation is right, holding on for the win. Eli Tomac pressured him at times, but tipped over in the sand, handing Cunningham a big win.
Lites Heat 2: Josh Hansen comes into this one with a broken hand from a practice crash. It doesn’t show in this heat race when he grabs the holeshot and leads early. Martin Davalos applies a little pressure but can’t close the gap, Hanny is the winner. Let's coin the nickname Broken Handy.
LItes Heat 1: Good thing we raced this heat because we weren’t sure if James Stewart was fast. He’s only been spectacular since his very first supercross race, which took place in this building nine years ago. He dominated this one. Ivan Tedesco took the holeshot, Stewart made the pass and checked out. After a near-crash in the whoops on the first lap, he started upping the pace, going quad-quad through a rhythm lane, and then adding in a third quad, a huge one on the first rhythm lane, on the last lap. Ryan Villopoto battled Tedesco, making a mistake, then getting back to second way too late to challenge Stewart. But would he have been fast enough to do it anyway? Stewart was .8 seconds faster on his fastest lap.
Lites Heat 2: Ryan Dungey looks fast tonight—remember, he had the fastest qualifying time (but also remember, Stewart didn’t ride the second practice). But Trey Canard is also fast. He shadowed Dungey the whole way, never trying to make the pass, but definitely matching speed with the champ.
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looks like its gonna be just a big lites race this week with everybody joining in! cunningham and stewart looks like they won the same lites heat race 1 and hansen and dungey also miraculously tie for 1st on lites heat race 2,simply amazing!! do i sound sarcastic editors!?
For real??^^^
nottoofast is nottoofunny.
its soooooooo over the top it can't be real, so then that would mean it was supposed to be joke.
then again, ya never know.
brutal.
its even over the top for a mid 70's mel brooks movie.
hahaha
can't someone at racer-x take the 'jimmy the greek comment' down?
which guy? the black hating racist?
That was just dumb.
nottoofast i don't go to klan websites and talk about sx, please don't come to sx websites and talk your garbage.
why be racist ? just hate everyone its easier
Dude...untill you can ride a dirtbike anywhere close to the speed these guys do..then you can talk...other than that...its all trash talk...every sport has trash talk...ur comments about white and black is just absurd. i have read some retarded comments on this site, nothing like that. why don't we go back to respecting every one of these guys and leave the smack talk for fun with your buddy who likes someone else...lets be great full how competitive our sport is now!! I didnt even want to watch racing back when RC was on a 250 and james was on a 125...u knew who was going to win everytime...
In conclusion, unless you know everything about our sport and know how physically demanding it is, i suggest you shut your mouth and respect the show all these riders put on.
he is on a yamaha the motor is diff than everyone elses.. remember the crankshaft has a diff angle because the intake is on the front of the motor and the exhaust is at the rear. that means if yamaha can centralize the weight to lower than before it could handle better than the rest of the bikes... corner speed in racing dirtbikes is huge you win with corner speed. second thing the differant motor could have a ram air effect producing differant power numbers. as long as he doesnt go down he will show the way of there technology... think about it before you open your mouth cause you just waisted your breath and my time having to explain to you about a motor... you cant say your gonna go buy a bag of smart can yah ?
Hey "nottoofast"...do you really think people just "get out of the way" of STewart?? Really?? You need to just accept the fact that, at times, like tonight, the guy is JUST THAT GOOD!! Blame everybody else on the track, not the guy who is sticking it to them!!
"...lets be great full how competitive our sport is now!! I didnt even want to watch racing back when RC was on a 250 and james was on a 125...u knew who was going to win everytime..."
That is, by far, the most intelligent thing i have read on here so far. keep it comin'.
it dont matter about js bike you could stick him on an old chiken chasser and he would still come top three.dont matter if you are black or white if ur good ur good if you ur bad ur shit!
Hey you guy's, Although the comments made by "nottoofast" may put a knot in you're panties he is correct in the fact that many of you're ansestors were breeding there stock of slaves much like dogs horses and many other animals. Sorry if it offends you but like I say look up you're family tree you're great grandpapa could have alot to do with it. I don't really agree it affects JS7 as much but look at the BIG FOUR sports and call me wrong. Education is a sad thing to waste...
hey grawz137...
adding more racist comments to this is not cool.
get lost white trash!!
Hey stacy are you a girl? and how do you know I'm white? All I did was state a fact, Sorry
weak.