Quand même plus intéressant de lire Matthes…
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“I know you people are talking about the Marvin Musquin and Cooper Webb stuff that happened in the first race of the night. I get it, they’re teammates, they’re one and two in points, and they’re training partners, so the potential for drama is there. We hadn’t seen much happen all year, but that all changed in Houston. In the press conference, Coop admitted that his emotions got the best of him.
It was Musquin that, in my opinion, “started” the whole thing by diving to the inside of Webb which sparked Webb’s emotions he spoke about in the PC. To me, this is supercross. There’s a 40-year history of teammates going for championships, a history of aggressive, but fair racing, and neither Musquin or Webb are doing anything that we haven’t seen before. Weege and JT seem to think it wasn’t smart of Webb, but to me, they were normal SX moves that resulted in Webb pushing Marv out of the way. This isn’t a team sport, right? You’re allowed to be aggressive and make passes, right?
[Editor’s note: I didn’t say the move wasn’t smart, that was JT. I think the moves were fine, but I think Marvin and KTM won’t. That’s their opinion, not mine. — Weigandt]
The move that Marv pulled on Tomac last year in Foxborough? Yeah, not cool. Nor was Tyler Bowers “pass” on Justin Barcia a few weeks ago. There are many examples of t-bones and slams that aren’t cool and especially aren’t cool between teammates but what I saw in Houston was good, aggressive, clean racing. There’s a lot at stake here for both guys and they both went for it at different times.
Musquin came out the loser in these situations and honestly, outside of Foxborough when he dirtied Tomac, I can’t think of too many situations where Marv has come out ahead. As one racer told me yesterday, you don’t think Webb knows that Musquin is sort of easy to push around on the track?
I asked a couple of top racers in the sport about the moves that Marv did to Webb and then Webb did to Marv and both of them had no issues with anything that happened. One of them remarked that it doesn’t take much to piss Webb off but he’s been like that his entire career (I came down pretty hard on Coop when he was in the 250 class and losing his mind on other guys in practice that accidently got in his way on a heater) and that Marv has to know that. Another remarked, and I quote, “they’re all p***ies now,” which made me laugh out loud.
I got another text from a 1980s guy that was pretty damn good. He told me he couldn’t believe anyone would ever have a problem with anything either guy did. Okay, so these racers all agreed with me, why the outrage?
What Aldon Baker has to do, or Ian Harrison has to do, is tell both guys that they can race each other hard but don’t do anything dumb. Let’s keep the “super” in supercross, yeah? What’s super about this racing stuff is the aggression, the hard passes, and the fact it’s not a team sport.
So everyone calm down, mmmk? “
, le il y a 5 années et 1 mois.
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