5 Minutes with… Antonio Cairoli
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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By: MX Large’s Geoff Meyer
Red Bull/Teka KTM factory rider Antonio Cairoli is just days away from picking up his fifth FIM World Motocross Championship. The little Italian will join Roger DeCoster, Eric Geboers, Georges Jobe, and Joel Smets as five-time winners of the world crown, with only Joel Robert (six titles) and Stefan Everts (ten) ahead of him. We spoke with him about his victory at Matterley Basin in England last weekend.
Racer X: Antonio, what can you say about that circuit last weekend?
Antonio Cairoli: The weekend was good. I mean, the track was awesome—after Lommel, it’s the best track for me for the season. I struggled a little with the setup of the bike, but luckily we got an okay setup for Sunday, because the track is so fast and we are not used to this type of track. Many lines and so fast.
What about your motos?
In the first moto I had an okay start, but I went off the track and I lost some time. I got back in eleventh place and I tried to just come back as fast as I could. I got to third place and this was okay. Considering the mistake I made at the beginning, I was happy with third place.
Cairoli went 3-1 for the overall at Matterley Basin.
Photo: KTM Images
That second moto you got a little lucky, didn’t you?
The second moto I had a bad start. I was on the inside and maybe it wasn’t such a good place to start with the 350—the sand was a little too loose and I struggled a little bit. I had a bad start, but in the first three corners I passed a lot of guys and I was fifth. I was following [David] Guarneri trying to make a pass and he made a small mistake on one corner, and I was so close I hit him and I crashed. Then I started in fifteenth place and it was hard to pass. I [got up to] ninth but was struggling a lot, then the crash happened [when Billy Mackenzie landed on Tanel Leok] and they stopped the race with the red flag.
It’s not the way you would have liked to have gotten another chance, though, was it?
For me it was good, but for Tanel and Mackenzie, I am glad they are now okay. Then for the restart I changed gates and I went more to the center and I got the holeshot, and then it was easy. I tried to pull away and I got the moto win and the overall, so that was good of course.
Another world title awaits in Gaildorf, Germany, and another title not won in Italy. How do you feel about that?
It is a shame, because I never win in Italy. I always win the title somewhere else. All over the world I win it, but I would like to win in Italy sometime. I hope a lot of people come to Gaildorf and support me. We can make a big party together. It would be the end of a good season—not one of my best, but in the end I found a good balance.
Do you have something special planned for your fans?
For sure, we do something special. I am making a clothing line for AXO, which is special for me because they never did that with anyone before, and I am hoping I can ride with my gear in Fermo, which would be nice. Also Red Bull will be doing some cool stuff for the GP, so there will be some cool things happening.
Cairoli is looking to win his fifth FIM World Motocross Championship this year.
Photo: Ray Archer
And then it’s the Motocross of Nations. How are you preparing for that?
Somebody asked in the press conference. I think I won’t train for, like, two weeks or something. We have a lot of injuries and stuff.... No, I am just kidding [Laughs]. I think if I have my head on the right way and just train like I did the whole season and be fit for the MXoN, this is my goal now.
Any chance of seeing a #1 on your bike in 2012?
No, I will stick with #222. It’s like a brand for me now, and it’s impossible to have a #1 on my bike.
Ken Roczen mentioned he is off to Lloret de Mar in Spain to party a little before Gaildorf. Are you going to join him, or do you have other plans?
I don’t think I’ll go there—he’s a little too wild for me! I hope to go on some type of holiday, just go somewhere near the beach, maybe back home in Sicily or somewhere in Italy where it is nice. But for sure the beach.
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I bet he brings it at the des nations, he wants to prove he is one of the best riders in the world.
The Real Winner!!!!! Turn up the KTM stocks
he needs to bring some cash and go see a dentist.
I hope so bd25, Would be cool to see a battle with RD and RV.
Should have asked him when/if he will come to the USA and give it a shot.
@DB25 and BillC, It sounds like he's gonna bring it, but he's not saying anything like last year remember? He said he would smoke RD, but RD smashed the field!!!
I like AC222, and I know it's going to be a close MXoN. One thing I'm willing to bet $0.25 is that Team PR(because I'm from there) should break the top 10. I also believe that it should be actual Puertorican riders that have to be in Team PR.
Maybe Next year Bubbles wants to go ride for Team Russia or something!
LOL or Haha
What you guys think?
i dont think he will ever come race in the USA full time..........
khamann75 wrote:
he needs to bring some cash and go see a dentist.
Why? his teeth don´t bother him, and they certainly don´t seem to bother his stunningly beautiful girlfriend Jill, and they certainly don´t bother me. Seems like the only person bothered by them is you. Why don´t you offer to pay to get them fixed if they upset you so?
Actually, I think they give him character. He is what he is, not what he thinks others want him to be. I admire Tony for that. He´s a lovely man and a really great champion.
Forza Tony.
WHAT A DOWN TO EARTH GUY!!! I SAID IT IN ANOTHER POST AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN. I SURE AM GOING TO MISS THE GP AT GLEN HELEN NEXT YEAR!!! BUMMER FOR US!!!
He is one of the best riders in the world, no doubt. But yes, he is keeping it toned down a little, not like last year. When he said there were 250 riders who could beat Dungey, and then Dungey waxed everyone. I think Cairoli learned a little bit from that. Especially after he lost to Short too. But he is a great rider, and would do pretty good here, but I dont think he will come to the US. Especially if Dungey goes to KTM, then KTM will be well represented in both series.
khamann75 wrote:
he needs to bring some cash and go see a dentist.
X2 Haha! He should look into invisalign for sponsorship!
I think bigot MIKE has a man-crush. Mike says "He is a lovely man" OH BOY!!! Now we know what kind of guy Mike is..LOL!!
It's been awhile since a European guy has beat the Americans at the MXoN, 06 maybe with Everts and Stewart? I won't count 08 because we all know Stewart would of won, so this year I gotta admit I really want 222 to show the world what he can do. Soon to be 5 time world champion I think he's due a great weekend at the MXoN.
I have a lot of respect for Cairoli, He is a grat ambasador for the sport, You insecure peope need to get a life? what is your problem? All I wanna do is take apert that Factory KTM and see what is under that hood? I know how to build a fast bike and still think the factory KTM have to be runing a mechanical valve train to have the powere that the 350 he is runing can produce. Hey what do I know????? Speed cost money how fast do you wanna go?
I know the GPs are the world championship but you are not truly the world champ until you beat the best in the US nationals. Bring it to America Tony........and leave the 350 at home. You'll need to bring a gun to a gunfight here and that's a 450.
Everts was never the best in the world because he chose not to step up and beat the best. Don't make the mistake Tony.
I was at the mx of nations in budds creek when cairoli said he was going to wax everyone and he got 100% smoked..... even when he was a lap down and jumped in behind RV with his 45 second lead he still could not hang at all! 5 time WORLD mx champion must be somehwhat of a hallow feeling when you fail to beat the best to earn the title. I do not think cairoli or any world mx racer (excpt perhaps Roczen) will be within 10-15 seconds of RV or RD unless something happens to them like bike problem, or getting run into by another rider.
weird how people forget reed and ac222 went one two in italy and if it was not for a monster pile up at the start of moto 3 who knows what the results would of been??
Stop being a wuss and come race in America... with Real Men!... time to take the big step out of the minor leagues and play with the big boys!
Insuranceman227 wrote: "LOL or Haha...What you guys think?"
I'd go with 'haha,' but that's just me personally.
It's also comments like the ones above that make me want Cairoli to school everyone on the 21st september.
Good comment on Roczen party hardy.
I thought he never really said that, It was a some BS started somewhere else.
Everts said last year that it is one of his biggest regreats...Not ever comeing to the US and trying. I hope 222 trys. But hey he is 26 i think so if he does not I can't blaim him he is making a big $$$ doing what he does.
I HOPE HE HAS BETTER LUCK AT THE DESNATIONS THIS YEAR. I WAS FORTUNATE TO SEE HIM RIDE AT THE GLEN HELEN GP IN MAY. SMOOTH AS SILK RIDER. IMPRESSIVE.
You yanks have the circus of supercross, enjoy that, because real racing is motocross and thats the GPs. Better racing and better venue is in the GPs. Dungey will get smoked in france and so will RV. Your also lucky desalle and bobbyshev aint racing because they would also smoke the yanks. Yanks be lucky to podium.
Italy's Des Nations team ruined by recent injuries. It will free AC up to go for wins. He has nothing to loose where RV & RD will have to hold back a little to make sure team USA wins. It's a team race but people will make a big deal if he beats either of the Ryan's.
I was there in Italy 09 MXdN, AC222 was the man to beat RD5 wasn't really a feature until he inherited the win in moto3....just saying.....
for Euro Spirit to say the US will get smoked is stupid on your part. it isnt like europe all of a sudden got some crazy fast rider in one years time. it will be like last year only we have 2 realy good riders this year. nothing against short but RD and RV will most likely dominate!
Cairoli is a very nice person and don't believe the lies that were spread last year before the Des Nations. He has always had lots of respect for the US riders, I read and saw many interviews of his and he never talked bad about any US rider.
For the guy who said that Cairoli was smoked by Villo in 2007, I think that Villo was smoked by Tony in 2006 in England, on the same track of the race of last Sunday, a US type of track.
He was not smoked by anyone last year, he knew he was in the team a few days before the race and he had just missed the last race of the year in Italy due to a knee injury. Ok for Dungey, but don't tell me Short, in normal conditions Tony can give him 2 seconds a lap.
There is a guy who keeps lighting the fire using different names, he is pro Euro and then pro USA, what a retard, get a job loser
Come to America wrote:
I know the GPs are the world championship but you are not truly the world champ until you beat the best in the US nationals. Bring it to America Tony........and leave the 350 at home. You'll need to bring a gun to a gunfight here and that's a 450.
Everts was never the best in the world because he chose not to step up and beat the best. Don't make the mistake Tony.
You got it arse about face yankie boy. It´s not the WORLD champion who has anything to prove. It´s up to every NATIONAL champion to prove he´s able to beat the WORLD champion over a season under the rules of the world governing body of motorsport, the FIM. I wonder why RC didn´t step up to take on the world champ if he was such a great champion? Hey, he was crowing about being the GOAT and all that crap, but the bottom line is, unlike Everts who was a 10 time world champion, he was never even a one time MX WORLD champion, just a very very good NATIONAL champion with a big yankie mouth. Can you spot the difference? LOL.
Stop living under the illusion the world revolves around Meximerica. You guys are headed towards 3rd world status, something you should achieve before the end of this decade if the present rate of illegal immigration continues. When that happens, you won´t have MX any more, because you can´t affort to do the sport on social welfare. LOL.
@Yankee Doodle- Maybe bubbles is ridin for EURO-SPIRIT... Or maybe the Euros are planning a food poisoning scandal... WHO knows!!
RD1, BB2, and RV3 will make sure EURO-SPIRIT will deflate and suffer the rath of the Yanks!!
Let's Do this!
Mike......first off let me say I'm not even American but on their behalf, STFU. RC was the hardest working, most humble rider on the planet and always gave credit to anyone he beat and was beaten by. Everts may have won the "world" championship, but anyone with a brain knows the US Nationals are where it's at for talent in the world of motocross. I'm not discrediting the GP's they are filled with great racing and riders, but to imply RC wasn't the fastest on the planet over Everts is straight BS.
@Retardcross . Firstly, fück you. Don´t tell met to STFU, you bloody retard. Secondly, There are millions of people who don´t share your OPINION, because that´s all it is, that RC was better than Everts. He had the chance to prove it by coming over to the GP´s but he chose not to. Anyone who has seen the GOAT (Everts) ride, will understand why. He would have got his arse handed to him on a plate. It´s that simple, and RC was aware of that. He was a big fish in a small pond. End of story.
He's got them big ol choppers. Every time he smiles the kids run! Get it straight- Jill is lovely & Tony rides the bike (fast) & brings home the salami
don't ever compare one race (mx des nations) to a full season (either gp or nationals). Good riders can excell at any given race, the best riders will be topping the standings at the end of the series. Not even mentioning injuries which can ruin anybody's title hopes!
Mike- if OK with you, let's please keep the posts with children friendly text.... also- RC did race against Steven Everts several times and RC beat him EVERY time.... even on Everts so called home track! As for your comments about America.... Pretty funny as I recently read in a London paper that the second most popular name in the UK for babies being born behind John, was Mohammed..... and your telling us we have a immigration problem?
MIKE=TOOL
Now Mike WHY should RC go over there to race the "B" class when people COME HERE in there words to RACE THE BEST. Its just that Everts never took the chalange like so many other greats have. Don't blaim RC for Everts fear. I don't blaim Everts for not coming over, I wish he did but I don't blaim him for not doing it either. If the USA is not the top step tell me why so many come here to try it??
Teeth aside ... Cairoli is one of the best MX racers in the world and has a total piece of *ss for a girlfriend.
In addition, Cairoli can win on a 350 which none of the "pros" in the USA seem to be able to accomplish.
@mbmoto And Everts whipped #7 who often beat RC, so what´s your point? One off races are a completely different kettle of fish. When JS#7 got handed his rear end (better?) by Everts, all the yanks said it was because #7 was being a good team player, but when exactly the same thing happend in Zolder, RC was better than Everts. You can´t have it both ways. A look at the lap times proved Everts was cruising, and when RC eventually caught up to him he was running at half pace. RC would never have beaten Everts over a season. The tracks were too rough, the motos were to long and the travelling takes some getting used to. RC was a little fat boy, not a lean mean fighting machine like the GOAT. He would have been a spent force half way through the season.
Everts said that RC is the fastest
just my opinion but based on the number of good riders that come to the US to show they are good outweighs the number of americans that do the gp's. Generally speaking, a true champion will either stay where the most competition is or go find it. im not a big follower of the gp's but there is only about 3 riders that you hear about but in the US in each class at least the top 5 have a fair chance of winning and the better half of the classes all have the speed to podium. So in my most non-biased american opinion it would seem only right for cairoli to try is hand at the nationals rather than the other way around.
@ BillC . Please make up your mind little fella. You want to call me a tool or get educated? I´ll give you one last chance. Call me a tool once more and I put you on ignore. Got that sonny boy?
OK. The only reasons the Europeans and others, come to the states is because the MONEY is better. Everyone of them left because it´s far easier to win in the states. The depth of the fields is quite pathetic really. In 450´s only 3 people have won this year, and one isn´t even an American. Nobody else gets a look in. In 250´s there are also only three guys who can win, and two of them ain´t American. Jeez. Swanapool couldn´t even get a ride in Europe, and that´s the reason he went to the states, and he´s running up front. It´s a joke dude. The overall standard in America, outside of the two Ryans and Canard, is dire. I´ve seen better in regional races here in Germany. Catch a wake up call pally.
ken wrote:
Everts said that RC is the fastest
When? Source please. You guys are dreaming in lala land. LOL.
Mike-
RC beat Stewart 95% of the time they raced in mx unless RC crashed (washougal and glenn helen come to mind)....... So to compare Everts to Stewart would be good as they are indeed close in speed but niether compare to RC- As far as competition- Brayton, Milsaps, Canard, Short (on a 450) Barcia and Hahn and even Albertson, all would be top 10 regularly against the best the GP has to offer.....
I´m living in Europe and follow both the GP´s and sx/mx in the USA since the 80´s. Both great series with lots of talented and fast riders. Every year the stupid comments on the euro usa rivalry on websites annoys me. It gets worse when the Des Nations comes closer.
Unfortunately mx is a sport not big enough to run a worldwide series like MotoGP or Formula1. To much dirt probably! On the positive side, it gives us more motos to watch every weekend. So, if you love the sport, just enjoy it and please keep the unintelligent comments to yourself. It´s not really necessary to share them.
Comparing RC to Everts:
Just take a look at the championships lost instead of won during their professional careers.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner !
It went from Foreign Mike, to Angry Mike, to Nazi Mike, now it's Delusional Mike.
British Mike is at it again, what a tard, he tries so hard to validate the GP's, that series HE tries to call a "world Championship" He hates the fact that the best riders come to race in the States, it kills him. And so he trie to make it political and all, when its obvious he has NO CLUE what he is talking about.
@ MIKE Everts said himself, that "RC is the fastest rider I have ever seen ride, I have much respect for him as a person and even more as a rider". Everts words. And all the guys who beat Everts (Tortelli and Vullimen) both came to the States, then Everts started winning. Everts raced here before, and got beat. RC beat them all, period. And why do you care so much MIKE, Everts isnt from England (Ireland) anyway, like you. He is from Belgium.
@MIKE, even several of your GP boys (like Rattray) have said the racing is tougher in the USA. YOU even quoted that yourself. So there you go, straight from the horses mouth, as much as you hate to hear it.
@MIke, give it up, you ARE NOT German, Irish bit@h.
I think they way you should look at it is that RC won 102 nationals in 10 and a half years, and he raced 126 of them, Everts however, turned pro 4 years before RC? And G.P's run, 15/16 sometimes 17 rounds a year? RC was 4 sure, the more dominate of the two riders. They should both come out of retirement and sort this argument out though.
Mike, if the fastest guys in the world were riding the GP's the big money would be in the GP's and just because you told me not to say it, I'm gunna say it again for fun, STFU! No one on here is saying GP riders are slow or the series is no good, but the level of competition is higher in the USA. When any interviewer has asked any rider from Europe why they came here, I can't think of one that hasn't said "because I want to race the best in the world". Just because it's named the world championship doesn't make it the best series in the world. The fastest guys,
American or not, are in the USA. I'm Canadian by the way, I'm not an American tooting our own horn. It is what it is.
2003--Zolder, RC on a 2-stroke 250 1st, over Everts who is on a 450..
2005-Ernee, RC dominates, and Everts finishes way down in the pack
Unadilla'97, Everts gets 3rd first moto, crashes out in 2nd moto while in middle of the pack. Budds Creek '99 finished 2nd to Kevin Whindham, who never won a title ever. Enough said..
lot of d1ckh£@d in europe, huh?
No bench racing necessary. RC beat Everts straight up everytime they raced.
Why does Ratray, Pourcel, Searle, Reed, Musquin, come to America? You can go back for years and see Vuillemin, Tortelli, Pichon, Roncada, Albertyn, JMB, on and on etc etc came here to race the best...........but not Everts or Carioli.
Mike you seem to have difficulty with reality. Maybe its your insecurities, I don't know, but I hope you get some help with that.
RacerX, if you could please post some pics of Tonys girlfriend that would be great, thanks.
Let's make a compromise, Mike vs. the USA. If Cairoli dominates the Americans at the MXdN then American MX fans do something special for Mike. If the Americans stomp at the MXdN again, Mike has to post a youtube video of his boy Cairoli eating corn on the cob through a picket fence. I live in an igloo in Canada and have nothing to offer so I'll just be the arbitrator.
like everts, cairoli is a coward, "no ama racing for me please"
antonio, listen to me, if you want to be a world champion one day, you need to win an AMA 450 championship, untill that, you just have some europeans titles, do you understand tony?
Please Davey get rid of the comments section. Leave that for the low class web sites. The comments here are bad. I have blocked this from my kids because of all the trash. Sorry but this is very bad. Makes MX guys look like low class white trash. Do you want your kids reading this crap ?
Mike wrote: "In 250´s there are also only three guys who can win, and two of them ain´t American. Jeez."
They didn't say American riders are better. They said riders IN America are better. One argument at a time, please.
Also, just like here in America, only 3 riders have won an overall in the MX2 class: Roczen, Herlings, Searle.
@BABYS if you don't like the language or the content please feel free to turn away or turn it off , us low class ,bad people are going to exercise our right to free speech....I see no parental guidance ratings . @miketheyankhater is a s*it stirrer and we all know hes delusional. Let me set it straight for him ...theres GIANT money for winning in the US ..if you want that money come here and take it out of Dungey or RV's hands . Your guys are so fast it should be easy , just like GP world champ Marvelous Munchkin did. Maybe get them to pick it up the first half of the race like our guys just for the spectators and SORRY RC is the GOAT .Only an absolute idiot would argue with that.........MIKE!
He looks like a severe burn victim without the scars.
you guys are f*cking idiots!!
Everts was good..but RC was better. It's no secret that the best of the best in motocross come to America to compete, not the other way around.
Maybe in the 70's and early 80s it was like this..but not anymore.
if we were talking about real autotmobile racing like f1 or any other type of left & right turning racing i would say yeah..europe is where you go to prove yourself.
RC > ****
RE: COME TO AMERICA. I HAVE PIT PHOTOS FROM THE USGP IN MAY.
I AM KIND OF A CAMERA GEEK. I CAN SHOOT SOME OVER TO YOU IF YOU E-MAIL ME. JUST SUBJECT IT TO USGP PHOTOS AND I WILL SEND YOU SOME. [email protected] CAIROLI'S GIRLFRIEND IS CUTE!!!
that mike is an idiot in 2003 rc beat everts with a 250 two strokes while everts was in 450 yamaha and in a euro track what more prove do you want rc 15 tittles how dare you to even compare everts to rc give me a break
Everyone know that Villopoto was the fastest on a 250.
They are on a 450 now, two completely different bikes. What I wanna say is, how about Frossard? In his rookie 450 season this year he's probably the 3rd faster guy in Europe. So don't always talk about Budds Creek 2007, they was on a 250, 4 years have passed and also because in Europe in 2006 Cairoli smoked Villopoto.
"Cairoli lost to Short?" LOL, don't make me laugh, Short had the holeshot in his hometrack, quite the contrary for Tony, it was the nations, best riders in the world, what did you expect, him to pass everyone?
And at the nations this year I don't think RV or RD will win on TC. That's my opinion for sure. Just the fact that Cairoli beat Reed at MXoN 2009 in a new track should make you think a lot ;)
P.S.: In case this year a bad teeth guy will win against some US guys, can you please start to think some excuses? Thanks lol
There is more money in the US races because the brands sell more bikes there then in the rest of the world. In the GP's riders have to pay to race and have no prize money and in the US is the opposite.THAT's the main reason for some riders to go from the GP's to the US and the other is because of the Supercross fever that, undoubtly, is the best SX championship in the world. GP riders have nothing to prove to any National rider (that's what the US championship is: a National) and you already had american riders racing the GP's (riders that won in the US, like Ryan Hughes or Mike Brown) and they done nothing, and I'm not even mentioning Jimmy Albertson or Michael Lieb who wher always crashing on the rough tracks. One race like the MXoN is not all. It would be more leveled if you put together the 3 best riders in the World against the 3 best from the US...
I watched som many MXoN live, in the track, and the US get lucky many times. Italy in 2009 they not even were on the podium places when the Race 3 started, but caos was installed in the first lap and, as usuall, the GP riders took points from each others and the US won. Last year in the US was Germany who was leading when Nagl got stuck in the fence... Just saying and even if the US wins again this year (I think they will), it will be a great race!
How can you idiots not win MXON, with a pool of 120 million, of course there,s bound to be a few better riders,
Keep your fingers crossed that China or India dont get too interested in MX
@Jugunco,I agree about mxdn.But for the past few years the riders that have gone to the GPs were at the tailend of their careers and a were not on great teams.I really think that were should send a B team.It would be much more competive.
"Keep your fingers crossed that China or India dont get too interested in MX"
AHAHAHAHAH NICE ONE, I TOTALLY AGREE!
It's sad there is still a retard who is allowed to say that a true champion like Cairoli is a coward, he must be banned. No respect for the riders.
Europeans riders has always come to USA for the Supercross series, mainly, and for the much more money they could get. If they only could get the same money in Europe, I doubt they would move to the USA. Riders like Strijbos, Ramon get 50-60 thousands a year.
I agree with Mike when he says that the World championship is run around the world, while the National is a national, even if one must consider how wide USA is, it might be really meant as an alternative championship. Anyway, I strongly think that Carmichael was better than Everts, but Everts could beat him. For you who don't know, Tortelli beat Everts in 1998 because in Brazil, I think, Everts was disqualified since he had damaged his silencer, which was so noisy. With those points he would've been world champion. Vuillemin never beat Everts. Let's go back to Albertin on Honda 250, that year he was faster than Everts, but the following year Everts was much faster and lost due to injury.
GERTRUDINA: why don't you tell everybody about the riders from your country of cowards? What kind of races do you retard have? Picking up tomatoes, potatoes etc...You are a coward, using different names stupid kid, get a job loser instead of infesting this good forum offending people who make the sport. Hope I won't catch you face to face dumba*s
@ Mike is British Mike is German Dum A$$$
The coward talk and making fun of Tony's look is pretty harsh guys. Tony is obviously a special rider, a champion. US fans just want to see him do it against the best the world has to offer in the nationals, running the ridiculous pace for an entire moto that Reed, Dungey, and Villopoto have displayed this year. One race just doesn't do it. The MXoN is a good for bench racing and bragging rights but it doesn't prove who the world champion is.
Tony, I wouldn't fault you for staying in Europe, cashing in on fame and fortune, keeping comfortable at home with your hottie. But there is nothing left to prove for you in GPs, you are obviously the best. If you want to race the best in the US, do it now before its too late.
My guess who mike is.... he is 14 maybe 15, Rode a friends 1986 xr80 once a few years ago in the yard and he gets a few Mags in the mail every month and now knows everything there is to know about MX.... Am I close Mike??
If RV and RD are on it, then the 222 doesnt have a chance (nor does any other rider in the world 450 or 250). Unfourtunitly for the US Roczen will probably smoke Baggett as Baggett is too inconsistent. Plus no 250 rider has the raw speed of Roczen.
Mike .....welcome back to earth!!!... I think you are close to spot on there, Although I believe "IF" JS is "ON" he can match RV and RD... Baggett...If he has a good day should be good between him and KR.
@Justin who gives a crap in Cairoli beat Reed in 2009, Reed doesnt ride for the US at the Des Nations, he is Australian and hadnt ridden outdoors in years to that point. And you tell us to start making excuses.. That is all I saw on yhour post, excuses as to why Cairoli has been beaten by a US rider, even when he lost to Short, no excuses--He GOT BEAT BY SHORT.. End of story. I take nothing away from Cairoli, he is a great rider, very fast, I just dont feel he is as fast as RV or Dungey, he has been beaten by Dungey several times, but Dungey is very fast. I feel it will be a great race. Cairoli will have an advantage, because the mindset of all the Euro riders is "anyone but the US" . they dont really care who wins asn long as it isnt an American. So it is US against everyone else, so it is hard for any US rider to come through the pack, without a takeout. Ask Sabastion Pourcel.
Jealous Europeans Hypocrites, and Liars
JEHL are so ugly, cowards, and suckers than you can add ECS to JEHL
#UCK1NG JEHLECS !!!!
This started out as (and still is) a Cairoli interview & comments after the bit.
Cairoli is a great racer / champion / personality / etc. and none of the comments here changes that.
I like KTM's and like what they're doing in the G.P.'s and now, here in the U.S. Their commitment to the two-stroke is one BIG reason they are important to me as well as many others but, I will only speak for myself.
KTM chose Cairoli for a long-term commitment in Europe to lead the brand and anchor them in the G.P.'s
Because of this, I see little chance of him making it over here to compete when he isn't expected (or wanted) to by his employers.
As MX'ers (and men), we are predicated to compete and measure ourselves against our peers to see how we add up, it's human nature and that isn't going to change.......ever.
Everts had a good gig in Europe and had no need to come here, same for Carmichael on this side of the Atlantic. It's exactly like that for Cairoli and Dungey (as examples).
We may never see what we percieve as the "ultimate showdown" because their employers compensate them to win titles, not the hardest fought titles or the easiest titles, I'm sure the manufacturers don't care how they won a plaque, just that THEY won it. I would hazzard to guess the easier the title won, the happier the person paying for it and, let's not kid ourselves to think money isn't a driving force in all of this.
As possible as it is for Cairoli to come over here and dominate, it is equally plausible for Dungey or Villopoto to do the same over there.
Anything else is purely speculation.
While I do think Roczen has the potential to compete for overall honors, I feel he is expected to win the MX2 class, on BOTH sides of the pond.
Mike&Manes;, two little faggots who whine on RacerX
You whine all the time jackass retard, go back to the mental hospital, why are you here? Are you too afraid to say where you come from? Stupid kid
@manes, he is kinda like Mike right?? Who first said he was Irish, now the big liar sys he is German. But by the way he writes, we know is a lie, no German says "bloody" when they are angry. What a tatd.
1990, 1991, 1992: Donnie Schmit beat everts easily
1993, 1994: Greg Albertyn beat everts
1996: Jeremy McMgrath beat everts easily at the mxon
1998: Tortelli beat everts
2003: Ricky Carmichael beat everts at the mxon
2005: Ricky Carmichael beat everts easily at the mxon
2007: everts come to see Ricky Carmichael in America on it's last sx
Motocross of Nation winner (place)
1981: USA (europe/Germany)
1982: USA (europe/switzerland)
1983: USA (europe/belgium)
1984: USA (europe/Finland)
1985: USA (europe/Germany)
1986: USA (europe/italy)
1987: USA (Unadilla/USA)
1988: USA (europe/france)
1989: USA (europe/germany)
1990: USA (europe/Sweden)
1991: USA (europe/Netherlands)
1992: USA (europe/Australia)
1993: USA (europe/Austria)
1996: USA (europe/spain)
2000: USA (europe/france)
2001, 2002, 2004: US not participate
2005: USA (europe/france)
2006: USA (europe/England)
2007: USA (USA/Budds Creek/USA)
2008: USA (europe/England)
2009: USA (europe/italy)
2010: USA (Lakewood/USA)
It's called the Des Nations not Des individual. You dont get a trophy for winning your class. It's a team race. Roczen and Carolli may win thier class but it dosen't matter.
you know i'm mogolian why you ask again? :) and in mongolia they also know that europeans are liars and cowards and the Americans are great champions!
what you fart?
Why do people keep bringing up that Cairoli "smoked" Villopoto in '06? How old was RV in 2006? 17, maybe? He was a kid.
The MXdN will be televised, right? I missed it last year.
Gertrudina, you said it all, get the hell out of here so and stay in your third world, ignorant people like you are not welcome here. You have serious problems loser, you should get check up asap, write on the forum of your mental hospital, retard.
Then, for the guy of the statistics, come on man, you just wrote what you wanted to write. 1992 was the first year in 250 for Everts, Tortelli beat him because Everts broke the silencer in Brazil, remember that Everts had many serious injuries and everytime he was able to come back stronger, the 1994 championship was his without the spleen problem. It is just ridiculous that there are people who can't recognize a champion, who even say Everts got beaten by Vuillemin, there is a limit for everything, some loser like Gertrudine might believe in it then.
i like monster girls...
@manes, you get all over guys for making excuses, and YOU make one every time someone points out an Everts loss. So dont be a hypocrite. Anmd nobody here ever said Everts wasnt a great champion, we argued with your idiot buddy Mike who said he was a faster guy than RC, and he said Rc would not have beat Everts for a title. RC has 15 titles in 10 years of racing, period. In the toughest series in motocross. Even the GP riders who came here said it is the toughest series to win a title in. That is how this arguement started.
BD200: I am not looking for excuses, it's just the reality of things, I don't know if you have followed the GP scene, I have. It doesn't matter to me what Mike says, he's not my buddy as I don't know him, that's his opinion, I already said that I think that RC was faster than Everts.
My opinion is that plenty of American riders who moved to the GP's talked about how tough the series was and after a few years, sometimes less, they go back to the USA. It's sad that here people just mention GP riders who moved to the USA with no success and mention the toughness of the series.
And it's sad that in this forum some ignorant people can say that Cairoli is a coward and nobody can kick this jackass out
@ padre manes the moron wop!
"1992 was the first year in 250 for Everts" and the first year in 250 for Donnie Schmit too! 1993 was the first year in 250 too for Greg Albertyn (and not Albertin moron!)
"Tortelli beat him because Everts broke the silencer in Brazil" MORON! if everts was better than tortelli he will win the championship by more than 50 points!!!!!! look at RC in 2006 he was penalized by 25 points and he still won the championship!!!!!
STUPID WOP !!!!!
Mike&Manes;, put your Frankfurters in your @$$!!!!
sorry for my bad English
if someone say that cairoli is a coward it's your own fault manes wop!!
Osborne was not a top-15 in US, in just few weeks in europe he won a GP! MORON
For the retard from MONGOLIA, you know nothing about MX, since you just check everything on google and you wanna appear like the one who knows everything by offending people in this forum, like those small dogs which keep barking at people behind a fence but then run away when the fence is not there anymore, you are like those dogs poser. You, Mongolian, come from a country that doesn't even know what a bicycle is, a third world piece of land, and you wanna teach here on this forum the history of MX and not only.
Osbourne: he has won nothing, who cares about one GP, you must be a real dumb.
Everts: the championship is won when you just have one point more than the second rider classified, donkey. I mentioned before the 1992 and 1993 seasons and their story, I was there dumb while you were digging holes to find roots to eat, there is no need for you retard to rewrite what I previously said, hide yourself retard Mongolian
In 2006 Cairoli was out one race, 50 points, and still he won the championship making up all that gap, the same Cairoli whom you called coward. You are a COWARD, illiterate and unpolite, burn in hell
2005 not 2006, over the great Andrew
everts never win a championship against a very top rider, 10 times european champion, that's all! he win his championships against belgiums bervoets, smets, ramon and french pichon, bolley, and demaria, but he has his @$$ kicked by American Donny Schmit and South-African Greg Albertyn in GP and by Americans Jeremy McGrath and Ricky Carmichael at the MXoN
cairoli multi-tme europeans champions, 0 overall individual win at the MXoN, 0 MXoN win by team and the 16 years old Dutch kid Herlings is faster than him on 250 or 350!
italians has always been cowards, you can change the history and the reality whit your b1@cht mouth! hey ugly little italian moron, benitto kapputt, mafia kaputt, calcio kaputt, pantani kaputt, rossi kaputt! only moron population can elect a president like berlusconi! why italians don't have world champions in boxing, kick boxing, are mma? because they are cowards!!!!
hey peppone, fernandel will slap your d1ckhe@d!
Fernandel, what a pervert name haha, where do live? IN Castro? Where are you from? Mexico? Mongolia? History of theft, burning kids, communism, what kind of person are you? You hide behind the great name of USA because you are weak, your country is weak, everybody is stronger FIGLIO DI UNA PUTTANA LURIDA, get a dictionary and translate it jackass as this is the last time I reply to a retard, don't wanna get that lower anymore. Fernandel, you are the stereotype of a retard
little benito manes, if you don't know peppone and don camillo fernandel you know nothing about your own country! b@$tard! and you want to talk about America? MORON !!!!
Just a thought. Why don't Americans prove they are the fastest in the world by racing an entire GP season??? I know it's all about money, but I bet it isn't that easy to race on European tracks all season long. I would love to see RV or Dungey at the top of their game just go over to Europe for more than just one round and really learn if they can take the Europeans on several tracks consistently. It may just not be as easy as everyone thinks.