by Davey Coombs
250 Words: Daytona
Sunday, March 11, 2012 | 3:35 PM
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In the 26-and-a-half year history of the Lites (and before that 125) class racing in Monster Energy AMA Supercross, there has only been a single undefeated season. In 1998 Pro Circuit Kawasaki rider Ricky Carmichael won all every round in the East Region, and then punctuated with one of the wildest whips of his career at the old Pontiac Silverdome. Since then, neither James Stewart nor Chad Reed, not Ryan Villopoto nor Trey Canard managed a perfect run in the Lites class.
Last night GEICO Honda’s Justin Barcia headed toward the halfway mark in his quest to match Carmichael’s rare feat, managing a start-to-finish win in the rain-shortened Lites main at Daytona International Speedway. It was another reminder that Barcia has become a smart, well-rounded racer who is showing the confidence to become an eventual player in the premier class.
It's all going Barcia's way right now.
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But there’s still a long way to go. Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki teammates Blake Baggett and Darryn Durham both have it in them to beat Barcia, but he has yet help them out by making any serious mistakes, or even getting a bad start. The same can be said for Red Bull KTM’s Ken Roczen and Rockstar Energy Suzuki’s Blake Wharton: They are certainly talented enough to win one of these East Region mains, but putting it all together has been a different story.
Barcia, on the other hand, has been spot-on in all four main events so far. Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis and now Daytona are all checked off. We may be watching history-in-the-making with Justin Barcia’s excellent East Coast effort.
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Holeshot again. Go mustachioed Barcia!
Hopefully baggett got in bam bam's head... zat leetle kid is a dirty rider
@odonor kinda hard to be a 'dirty' rider when your out front ....by yourself, keepin the stache clean and dry for the money shot... and only since the pussification of the sport has 'aggressive' become 'dirty'. Last of a dying breed. Baggett is a mud riddin mutha and i hope he continues on the dry......
I'm pretty surprised that Roczen got schooled in the mud. That race had his name written all over it. Aparently Boggle isnt a mud rider either. That was some crazy racing!
yeah im real sure barcia is worried about bagget lol bagget is only good in the outdoors his sx is mediocre as the guy said the only way barcia dont go undefeated is if he tosses it away if you base bagget catching barcia last night on anything you are retarded barcia was only going as fast as he needed to you see it every week of course if the guy in first has a substantial lead and than backs it down eventually the guy in second ( with nothing to lose) is gonna catch him if hes hauling ass
WOW Baggett showed some mudder skills, catching Barcia twice...caught him only to fall, thought he was then out of it only for him to catch him again...Was PStar guageing him, probably, but BB was faster than Barcia thought. Justin made a great save of a mud scrub or Blake would have bagged him a Barcia..
I don't see Bam Bam being perfect, he is riding great but race luck has a way of catching up with you just as least expect it...a poor start or a newly confident rider will derail the Barcia's perfect sx season....but the title looks to be his....
Baggett was on the gas last night. Another lap and I am not sure that Barcia could have held him off.
First off i give all the riders mad credit for the racing in the conditions they had to deal with last nite. I suppose thats one of the things that i love about sx/mx is no matter what its on.!!! well any way the bottom line is the only peson that is going to beat justin is justin.he was i total control of the race last night ,He took what the track was giving him.He had bagget paced the first time bagget got close to him he would pick up pace and pull away witch cause Blake over ride the track and go down on a straight away.I will give it up to blake for charging hard and showing that can ride in mud and look good doing it.i don't know if anyone realized that justin was trying to scub the jump he almost went down on,That's how confident he is with the way hes riding. If no one believes him watch the race again you'll see that the lap before he scrubed the same jump.Witch i thought wasn't to bright,but thats the point i'm trying to make is that he really thinks he can do anything on a bike better and faster than one esle and for the most part he can.I love it.go justin.
@Tonewall, I agree, havent seen Barcia do anything dirty in the last 2 supercross seasons, dont know what everyone is crying and bit@hing about. Bunch of sisies I guess.. Or they got a favorite getting waxed by Barcia.. I hope he goes undefeated, there are a few guys on here I want to rag on who says Barcia wont do it..
Ivan Tedesco in 2004 almost had a perfect a 125 west coast season. He only had 1 second place and won the rest.
For sure, GP fans were dealt a bitter pill last night when Barica made Roczen look like a fool in the mud (and I do like KR, by the way).
However, before everyone goes making excuses for Barcia being caught by Baggett (Barica was *cough cough* managing his lead), then why did Barica let him get so close? If Barica was in control of the situation, there is NO WAY he would have let Baggett get THAT close. It was also obvious that Barcia did not have it under control when he made a couple of mistakes on the last lap (including nearly throwing it away althogether).
Having said that, I do think Barcia is going to win the title, he defintiely stands a chance of pulling off a perfect season, and he has made his competitors look pretty stupid more often than not. Amazing that when Barcia is genuinely the fastest guy, he doesn't need to resort to his usual dirty riding. Imagine that!
The AMA not allowing 144cc -or 269's stinks.....like collusion.
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As soon as Weege pens an article on Barcia, his perfect season will detonate.
Someone mentioned Pourcel, and I know this in not about him AT ALL but whatever. I think Pourcels problem when he moved to the 450 class is that he needs everything perfect, and the team he chose was still figuring a lot of things out. Just my two cents. But I definitely think Pourcel could of done a little better. But good ride for Justin, I think he can do the perfect season, barring any major mistakes.
he hasn't had to pass anyone in 2 weeks, for position anyway.
I love reading comments on here. It's good to hear everone's thoughts and opinions when they use proper punctuation, but fifty word run-on sentences blow. Come on! Please punctuate so I can understand what the hell you are talking about. Don't forget capitalization in the right places. It's the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Barcia is having a great season so far with his in command riding. I don't think anyone is going to challenge him for that title. The kid is showing some maturity for sure, but that porn-stache has go to. Was that drool driping from the side of Erin's mouth during her post race interview with Dirk Digker there.
oops my bad, that was Dirk Digler!
Why does everyone keep talking about Kenny Roberts(KR)? Do they mean Ken "Kid Rock" Roczen?
Really.........trying to compare canadian nationals to a MX2 Title? Get real, how many Canadian champs come to the US and Win a SX Race?? Roxcen was closing on 2nd until he got blasted in the water on back to back laps and couldn't see, why else would you let go of the bars and try and clean your goggles.
All the Mud race shows is that the Start is everything.
As far as Barcia "managing the race" and marking Baggett, thats a Bunch of BS!!!!!! If that was the case why was he scrubbing that single so hard that he about swapped out as Baggett was closing. Mud is about The start and lots of luck after that.
Barcia has skill no doubt, but going undefeated? I don't think its gonna happen.
Baggett is hot or cold, one good race one or two bad,
Look out next week if Roxcen gets the start, I also think the only person that won't run Barcia high is Roxcen, everyone else has been punted by Barcia in the last 2 years, so they aren't gonna play nice. Its why Barcia HAS to get the holeshot and get away otherwise.
And when it comes to Houston I saw Wharton will be the Top step of the box.
Regarding Ken Roczen: Let's not forget it is just his second SX season and the first one he did not race all events.
There is no such thing as the SX events in USA here in europe.
With regards to the level of racing here in the GPs - you folks did see ride zach osbourne in the lites west!? ;-)
He as smoked outdoors by Roczen and Herlings last year.
I find ourselved lucky to have ken compete in the u.s. as we definitely have the best 250 riders in one series now with the exception of herlings, but he is to race the u.s. in 2013!?
I do not care where all the 1A riders racers compete be it here in europe or over there in the u.s. as long as the best race with each other.
Barcia - so far a blistering performance and as usual when a rider is on top of the game it looks like it is easy! Great job so far - keep it on two wheels and let's see if the other guys can step it up those tens of a second per lap to come close to him.
And if not - it's all Barcia's fault to make the east coast lites SX boring ;-) hahahahaha
I dont understand this "perfect season" thing. It aint exactly a lot of races like the big boy class or outdoors with multiple motos everyday. Love Barcia, love the riding style, even dig the lip muff, but I cringe when I hear perfect season in the SX Lites class. Silly.
The kid reminds me of Hannah, said it 3-4 yrs ago, say it again. I dont think anyone has anything for him.
@beadboy27 - I could not agree with you more! I was thinking the very same thing. Good grief.
So now that RacerX is questioning if Barcia can go perfect, is there any doubt that he doesn't win in Indy? The jinx is in.
Didn't Ernesto Fonseca go undefeated one season ? I think it was his rookie year on the 250F ?
I think RC is the only one undefeated in lites SX.
Rc is the only rider to win the all the race in the east series..in 1998 I think
i cant belive that no one has parked barcia in a turn or t-boned that guy.... the others riders surely dont have testosterone or balls,beacause they allways let him have is way... funny thing is,barcia must be like 120 pounds with his gear on.. come on guys gets aggressive with that girlie framed ugly stash pre teen !
Ok i'll keep it short and sweet,JUSTIN BARCIA is the best 250f rider on the planet at this point and time.
JUSTIN BARCIA is the most agressive 250f rider on the plant.
Weather he wins all or not,He will be the 250f Champ again in the East.So lets get right into whos going win the shot out in vegas?????Oh snap,does justin make the Denations for the U.S Team.IF,If andy tought sh-t was candy.
I read the "MX2 doesn't relate to here" comment...........interesting. Everybody ELSE that's not from the Lorretta Lynn's contingent is from the G.P.'s. It also so happens that most of them are atop the leaderboards with steadfast consistency. I am one one the first people to wave the flag but, you have to give the "other" guys their props. I would've said "Euros" but, the diversity of the other guys nowadays isn't so much euro, what with S. Africans, Aussies, Kiwis, etc, etc. standing on the podiums, our "homeboys" have to fight hard to be "first American".........kind of like back when it all started..........
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