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Chad has to beat RD first though too?
The Shop
Anyways you're right Zycki11 enough about he/she. I'm curious if we're going to see CR at all in sx at this point. All I know is with all the I'm not impressed w/the pace of RD and RV talk he's made and all the bragging he did about his 1 lap practice(lol) performance in Daytona he better come back and put a whooping on these guys like he seems to think he can. IMO I think if and when he comes back he'll be very ver very lucky to even hit the podium. With that said I miss having him out there and hope he shows up for at least a few rounds. Hopefully he'll be at Seattle so I can watch it live.
At A1 Chad was sixth fastest against a healthy field at 57.679...and less a second off of James Stewart's 56.820. He finished third in his heat behind Millsaps and Dungey, and then had his spoke problems in the main.
In Phoenix he was third fastest in qualifying at 53.365, against Stewart's 52.756. He finished second in the heat race behind RV, before he and James tangled in the main.
At Daytona he was fastest in practice, and about a half-second quicker than Dungey.
That's all we've had to see of him this year. The fact is, I think he'll be all right.
- Reed only got his Kawi literally a few weeks before the Aussie SX series started, a bit different to the year before when he was on the Suzuki from about August (or maybe earlier?)
- most of the Aussie SX races were 5 or 10 lap sprint formats, so I wouldn't think it unusual if someone got a good start when Reed got a bad one that he would get beaten.
- adjusting to new tyres (tires for you Yanks)? Possibly a factor, depending on who you believe.
Put all that together and I don't read much into his Aussie SX results. And as GuyB pointed out, his actual performances in the first two AMA SX rounds were hardly disastrous, mechanical/injury problems aside.
While not a fact as such, I also believe that Reed was still struggling with stomach issues carrying on from last year.
As for getting on the podium, the guys he currently would have to beat to do that are mostly guys that have been lucky to be on the same lap as him in the past. Even if he wasn't 100% I don't think a podium would be too much of a problem.
As for catching the two Ryan's who knows? For me, Daytona showed that speed isn't going to be a problem, it will probably come down more to fitness/stomach issues.
Remember how Brayton or even like Larry Ward would kill it in the offseason supercrosses?
Pit Row
On point though.
I mean they are not exactly blowin the doors off guys like KW and Millsaps and the rest of the crew.
Stewart and Reed are normally on another level from those guys.
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