Thats why he's the CHAMP!!

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HOLESHOT.... on a 350!!

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Thats why I love RV, Anyone remember the year he ran down the 800 at the last race even though he did not need to for the lites outdoor title. I LMAO the last few weeks when some guys on here said he would fold/crack he has never cracked, Pressure does not bother him. I said he reminds me of RC way back his first year as a pro, He does not let up till the checkers just like RC. Just gets it done, Passes guys like nothing because he has that "reservie" speed just like RC did. Thats what most guys lack.

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two weeks in a row RV has set the fastest lap during the race. earlier in the season he also set the fastest lap during the race.

So,the fastest lap time, the most wins during the season, and the championship.

Hey! wait a minute! I think everyone is calling the wrong guy the fastest man on the planet.

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I just hope all these guys ride the Nationals ( 450 class ). If they do, this will be the best 450 class in years..

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It's way cool to see KW up there in the top five, even if it's only laptimes.

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This is what I wanted to see. In 450 words yesterday someone made the comment that if TuTu Motorsports had been that comfortable with his bike from the beginning of the year (or something to the like) he would have won the championship. I'm thinking 5th fastest isn't all that comfy huh? I had thought Villopoto set the fastest lap of the race. This proves (something I already knew) that he would have won had he needed to. Go RV1?

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I am going to call it right now.

RV will be the 2011 Motocross Champion.

His outdoors game is amazing and better than his indoor game.

Bring it home RV!

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DG9,,, JS had more fastest lap times and the fastest heat races than anyone this year, and look where he ended up...

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RV with the fastest lap and I don't think he even had to jump the quad! Cunningham and Seely with a faster lap than Tomac, nuff said. With regards to Cunningham, Can you really be "on the pipe" on a 4-stroke?

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@DG90- You may need to rethink your take on Reed there. Why would he need to push any harder when he won? There's no need to push it and risk crashing when he doesn't need to. Who does that?

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Villopoto was probably just playing with those guys, riding a little slow so they would think this was all he had, so they would get complacent, and mesmerized into that pace. Then, in the finale, he stepped it up just enough to be the fastest, but not by a whole lot.

Wait until the outdoors. There, he will uncork that Kawasaki and blow them into the weeds. Any hope they once had will be dashed across the rocks of despair.

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I love that the fastest lap suddenly means something when it is someone other than "you know who" who sets it!! Many weeks it was said that the fastest lap meant nothing, apparently now it does..........interesting!!

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You are right BillC. RV are very much like RC, besides being redheads. Both were more outdoor riders than indoor but the hard work made them the best at both. RC wasn´t the most technical guy, Windham, McGrath, Lusk, Reed all of them had more natural skills than Ricky, but RC was the most fitted for sure. Even RC admitted it and overcame it by being the most ambitious and the most committed rider ever. Villapoto probably is going to dominate the outdoors this year and if he does, we might witness the start of a new era of domination. Just like RC did. As for Bubba, even though I like the kid and sure he can ride !, I predict he´s going to fade more and more with this SX only deal. The pace RC and Canard will bring to the 2012 SX season will be unreachable for Stewart if he stays out of the nationals. Maybe for a couple of laps but not 20 and certainly not the whole 17 races.

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whatever.......the difference here is that it's not a Stewtard using a fast lap time to say JS is the best and would have won if he didn't crash, again....

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if js decides to ride outdoors it will be an incredible show. he and RV will push each other and that will make for some great racing. if not, it will still be good racing anyway just a little less exciting. i think in js' mind he needs to beat RV heads up for a championship to shut people up, because it gets pointed out that he never beat RC heads up for a title, even though he beat CR22 twice. RC saw the day coming when he wouldn't be able to keep up with js so he hung it up. very smart on his part. that's why he (RC) tells people js is the FMOTP, it makes him look that much better. i know this is all pure speculation with no proof but that's what it looks like to me.

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Elda Last ment RV not RC... just so the heart broken bubba ball licks dont come a' knockin. Yes Elda i fully agree..... RV and TC will run American SX for years to come. Dungey MIGHT be able to stick a wheel in there somewhere.... if he reunities with "The Man" at KTM. Reed.... i say a few more years and hes done... retires... and runs his Two-Two motosports team with faster new talent sitting on the bike(s) . Hell with Barcia,Wilson,Pourcel,Musquin,Roczen and Tickle all moving into 450 SX either next year or the year after he has alot of riders to chose from. (Yes i know pourkie is already in the 450 class but hes got several years ahead of him still yet.)

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JS7 would be fine. They just need to eliminate the whoop section on the SX tracks. They seem to be a problem for everyone.

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I think the "fastest lap" really isnt that important. RV turned the fastest lap, but didnt crash. He backed down and won the Championship. Reed had the 5th fastest lap and won the race. If the fast lap is so important, then how did Reed run the 5th fastest and win?? Could RV have won the race?? Probably, he did show he could run faster than anyone else and stay up, it means nothing if you crash. But he didnt need to. But one lap means nothing if you wad it up because you dont have the skill to run that pace. The 5th fastest won the race, shows how important one lap is. Unless you use it to see who is the "fastest man on the planet" then that would go to RV, right? He won the title and turned the fastest lap.

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whatever.......RV getting the fastest lap time is just icing on the cake since he didn't crash and in the end, he won the championship. With Stewart, the majority of the time it wasn't icing on the cake, it was all he had cause he crashed. Fastest lap is cool, but in the end, people will remember who won the 2011 championship, might remember how many wins he had, but probably will not remember the fastest lap times.

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@slick, are you nuts?? Do you really think RC retired because he was afraid he couldnt win?? He ran an abbreviated season when he wasnt in good shape, and still beat Stewie in every overall race. He was 5 for 5 in his retirement tour that summer. It looked like he could still compete to me, he was undefeated that summer. Riding part time. The GOAT won 15 titles in 10 seasons, what more does he have to prove to you or anyone else. Nothing, its why he left to persue other intrest.

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Why are you guys including Canard at the level of RV and not the guys that are as fast if not faster than Canard ie: Pourcel, Dungey???

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Not only the the GOAT beat lil'Stew for every overall during the summer of his retirement tour, he did this while fulfilling all his obligation to his new car racing team: testing, racing, team meetings, etc. And at the beginning of the that summer his wife had twins!

lil'Stew doesn't even come close. And there is no GOAT fan that has the bizarre homoeratic attachment that lil'Stew fans have for their boy. It is just freaking strange and spooky and not normal for a man to gush for so much for another man. Is this some type of down-low thing?

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RV rode fast and if need be could have stepped it up...but on a dry track like that and not needing the win, he backed it off and let Reed and the Dunge battle .....Stew and KDUB were pulling away it seemed until they were out....Great ride by RV and he will dominate outdoors.....Pourcel should have stayed on Kawasaki or gone with Honda.....

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Stewart will be a novelty outdoors at best. The new kids have beat his game and he's got major head / team / managment / consistency / etc. problems. He certainly doesn't want to get exposed outdoors and dampen his marketability for next SX season (and anyone considering him for a spot on Team U.S.A. had better get their head checked). Team #7's lack of openess to the media and all their drama & circus acts have soured me (as well as others) on the whole bit. #'s 1,2,14,22,24,29,33,41,377,800 (and others) will raise the game to a new level and I can assure everyone, there will be no perfect season this 450 MX series. That's just the 450's, the 250's are going to be off the richter as well, if not more.

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@bd200; i never said RC was washed up, too old or scared of js. my theory is based on interviews of RC before he retired. he talked about the injuries being more frequent and how hard it was to maintain his training. he left when he was at the top with nothing to prove to anyone. i said he was very smart to get out when he did. remember he missed one whole sx season due to knee surgery. things like that start to take its toll.

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If Stewart skips the nationals- no way will he be sharp for 2012 supercross- Being off the bike for all of 2010 didn't prepare him well for this past supercross season, as we all saw. When you fall off of that horse- you get back on it and RIDE-. Just don't fall off too often OK?

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白龙... You forget to mention that in 07'... RC was still training hard as he always did in the previous yrs.
Suzuki just made it possible for RC to do partial season, get the big $$ and start his nascar career.
And.. RC is like what many champs are.. They want to win.
And who cares about comparing a JS to RC?
RC was just better in winning championships... And you combine the results SX & MX... The nickname he bears, just is a fitting title to all his accomplishments.
@slick.. True, I recall reading or hearing that from RC himself. Like some athletes do.. Some prefer to leave the sport they love at their top of their game!
And as BD200 pointed out... He had nothing more to prove.

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I thought you were up Stewie's butt. Jumped ship to RV butt

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@Carlsbad... If JS runs those 4 races planned for the outdoors.
What Matthes mentioned in one of his later podcast... Yamaha apparantly seems not to offer any support for the outdoors. Meaning, JS is not getting any $$ incentives to do the outdoors from Yamaha. So why ride it?
Reed for instance, confirmed he is riding, but again, Honda might have stepped in, and offered support.. Where one might question whether Reed is still a privateer in his outdoor efforts as to his efforts in SX.
I reckon there might be a some more to it we just do not know... Hence I am one of the few who wants to hear Brooks side of the story.
Bear in mind... Yamaha's agreement with L&M prior to the 2011 season, was a SX only deal... Even though JSE is in the process in acquiring the team.. A contract is a contract.
But.. Regardless of all this.. As a fan, I am somewhat disappointed he is not even commited to ride the outdoors in it's full! iso the 4 races he has promised for so many yrs now..

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@BILLC IS MY BIITTCHHH ... You must be new here? I Picked RV to win this last year and have said MANY times that RV is my Fav rider, so go fish somwhere else.

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@Didierlotsyeng

Why compare RC to lil'Stew?

I can see your point, lil'Stew, the one lap wonder, does not deserve to be compared to RC.

But on the other hand, it quite common to compare compare competitors, athletes, performers from different periods. For example, comparing chess players, violinist, etc.

But it seems when somebody compares lil'Stew to somebody, the stewtards go into witch hunt mode look for haters and racist. Because if somebody does not conclude lil'Stew to be greatest their motive must be part some nefarious hater cabal.

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Yeah Didierlotsyeng, I'm DYING to hear Brooks' side of story as well. My assumption is, L.B. has entered into some sort of non-compete / non-disclosure contract as part of the buy-out and as a result, is keeping tight-lipped to keep his payments coming in. Just another reason to distrust the JSE propaganda machine. Yamaha has made a terrible step in my estimation. If they give JGRMX the same amount of support as a say, Valli or Motoconcepts, where's the incentive for them to stick? I don't think the share the wealth (works parts, technical assistance, R&D, etc.) program will bear fruit, possibly because of spreading themselves too thin. They need a flagship team / program to market themselves from and I don't think they're best served by a SX-only team. If it were my call, I'd go all-in with JGR because they are the most cutting-edge R&D wise and have the best prospect of landing a bigger sponsor, dollar-wise, due to their NASCAR ties.

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@acejas--How can anyone include Pourcel with anybody when he hasnt even raced the 450 yet. We can assume he is fast, but nobody has seen him race the bike yet. And Canard beat Pourcel for the 250 title remember, so Pourcel isnt faster then him.

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bd200 not starting crap but if CP did not break his arm he most likly would have won that so I don't think you can say who is faster just because one guy won the title. TC got lucky that CP got hurt because he bonsided a corner earlyer and crashed, he could have VERY easly got hurt there. TC won it in the end no question but to judge who is faster by it is a streach IMO. Rememebr TC has Never raced a 450 outside either.

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Congrats to the RV camp on a great season! I think we were witness to some of the highest highs for a racing season, no what ifs here. All the contenders has opportunities and RV pulled it off.
The great outdoors is next and it appears that it will be interesting as well. What a sport!

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While I don´t like comparing one rider to another, specially if they are not from the same era, I also don´t like when a champion doesn´t get credit for what he has accomplished. I think what really makes Carmichael so special is that he bet the man that was dominating the series (McGrath) before him as well as the young man that was supposed to dethrone him (Bubba). And RC gave JS plenty of chances. If I´m not mistaken RC won two indoor titles and two outdoor titles with Bubba in the big bike class. 05, 06, SX (RC was injured most of the 2007) and the same at the outdoors. Most of the champions retire as soon as they smell defeat around the corner. RC ain´t a goat. He is more like a lion !.

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Please James don't race outdoors, you will only crash at a higher rate of speed than you did during Stewpardcross season.

B safe #7 we need you to race SX at least until Barcia makes it to the 450s.

Crazyballs needs a roll cage, so put him in a Lucas oil or a TORC short course truck for the summer, he can't get hurt or hurt anyone else and we can enjoy even the summer of moto mayhem.

Seems like a win-win, and nobody gets hurt!

Love to see a retired motocross racer class in the short course trucks, get all the crazy riders from the past out there at the same time. Albee, Henry, Pastrana, #4, #7, Cooper, RJ, Hurricane...................

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