Morning Report: Dallas
Saturday, February 18, 2012 | 1:55 PM
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Well, the riders have what they want here in Dallas: a football stadium and a football-stadium rectangular layout. After touring through a bunch of baseball stadiums to open the tour (which we do every year, yet this year the layouts seemed to throw everyone off) we’re back to the domed football stadiums—when you’re watching from the press box in Dallas, Indy, Atlanta, St. Louis, Houston or New Orleans, everything ends up looking the same. The stadium floors are about the same, so the layouts get a little more predictable.
But one difference in Dallas is the dirt—it is super, super hard packed here. That’s typical Dallas. Chad Reed was talking during the track walk and said you have to run the outsides here, it’s too slippery to try to make crazy things happen down low here. The track also features a few unique obstacles like a dragon back up and down with a double jump in between. Also there are two whoop sections, one is fairly simple but the other is pretty gnarly.
As the kickoff for the East Region Lites Championship, there are lots of new faces and even some new teams here. The Ohlins/Langtson Motorsports KTM team is in action for the first time, and other KTM squads like Munn Racing, Dragon Fuels AG Racing and Violation/Shea Racing are all racing for the first time this year. That’s six KTM teams out here including the factory Red Bull squad and J-Star JDR.
Justin Barcia is also debuting his red number-one plate on his GEICO Honda. Lots of other standouts to watch in this class, just check our East Lites Mega Preview HERE.
In the SX Class, we hear the JGR team went down to James Stewart’s house in Florida for more testing this week, and there will be big changes to his bike today.
In other news, we have heard that Eli Tomac has a small fracture in his elbow after last weekend’s crash in the whoops, but he’ll be back 100 percent for the next West race in Seattle. And we also hear Cole Seely may be racing Trey Canard’s vacated Honda Muscle Milk 450 next weekend in Atlanta.
But that’s next week. This week should be a good one, follow us on twitter @racerxonline for all the latest info.
Ready to race here in Big D.
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More big changes for JS!!!
Stewie needs to listen to someone, his settings are wrong apparently. He needs to listen to Gary Bailey.. But Stewie is due, I think last year he went 4 or 5 races between wins. If he wins, lets hope RV1 gets 2nd.
what you just leave the bike the way it was. if i was having problems i would try different things what a stupid comment¨. more big changes daaaaa
I guess that straight in the pic above closest to us is what they call the "Dragonback" That is the best I can figure out?
it's Roczen just .002 secs ahead of Wharton Cunningham Lemoine M Stewart Bogle Baggett
sub 50sec lap times AGAIN!!! Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
450's on the track now, Shorty is riding!!
OK people Ive been wanting to say this for a while? And I dont know much about the new Yamaha now try to follow my maybe logic (and typos) Now I might be wrong about some stuff cause I have never rode the new bike. I also wouild like to know if there is a counterbalncer to compwnsate for intake or exhaust stoke and also at what angle the cylinder is in compared to the rake and trail of the front forks? Reason being you have 3 cycles of no thrust. then Kapow! James is trying to go when there is no thrus or a lot less weight being forces apon the front end. It seems like he is the only person pushing that Yamaha to make those things cause the front end problems?
I know the other guys are going fast with the 4 strokes just has to be a bias problem with the timing cycly of the Yamaha?
Or just tell James you cannot ride this thing like a 2 stroke?
What do I know? Idunno I did work in desgien and devepment for 15 year though?
Now give me my 2 cents worth.......
LETS RACE!!!!!!
K-Dub #1, Reed #2, RD #3, JS #4 and RV #5. Shorty only did 2 laps. K-Dub did a 47:8
Throttle control tonight!!! Windham to the top right now, Reed, dungey
Hard packed + Pirelli = No traction
Sounds more logical then anything you have posted...@thechosen1.
Yes that's the "dragon back" down on the line on the bottom of the pic. One entering, double, one exiting and a rollover.
actually it's the reverse of that, i was looking at it backwards.
Wish they made the track more dynamic, separating the big players with big balls. Watching everyone doing the same rhythms is boring
Dungey, please win tonight.
If it's hard packed and slippery, Dungey has a good chance to win tonight. He seems to hide that crap better than the others. Time will tell.....
RD will have to pick it up to win, he has been off the pace the last 2 weeks and there are more nasty whoops tonight!!
Don't think RV will be able to really hammer the corners with it being as slick as it is!
JB and rocen are less than .2 sec apart, Littly Stewart is 3rd fastest
Roczen I ment
WOW REED IS ON IT!!!!
.CR 46:53
.RV 46:87
.JS 47:07
.RD 47:23
.KD 47:6
Reed means business, dropped a 56.537. RV, then Js.
BillC...if they all start up front its going to be a barn burner.
You got that right!!! Could be a REAL good night if they all start in the top 5, Give K-Dub the holeshot then RD, JS, RV, CR and lets see what happens!!! I gota get home soon and get ready!!!
Two hours and it is on!!! Get some, Kenny F'ING Powers!!!
Keep that crack pipe around buddy! Your doing great so far!
wanna make a big change jgr , get a new rider .
Wow more Stewart bashing so shocked, really getting pretty damn old what is it going to take other than James going to NASCAR with his old buddies Travis and Ricky before every one will. Just have a tall glass of shut the hell up
@BillC - take a deep breath man! Pace yourself. lol
BillC, i can't believe you still think james is going to make podium!! YOur waaay off BIllC.!!! James will never win another championship again...And i am a james stewart fan...i just think he is done!! James has underestimated his competition and has a huge ego , thinks he is the fastest man on the planet..doesn't think with his head anymore!!! to bad so sad...
I hope that KW & RD get more aggressive to-nite and get up there, now that would be cool! As far as the Yamaha goes...they will continue to run a crap design just like the mono shock of the 70s. Even though the bike was garbage Yamaha refused to change it! It is a shame that JS is looking bad out there, but I do think that is not all the bike.He did suffer the same wrist injury that ended RJs career and maybe all of his crashing over the years has taken its toll.Hear is to a safe and good race to nite!!!