Supercross/Outdoor Motorcross

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Air450 said:
I think Tomac will be fine. Just pick him up and put him on the bike! He doesn't need to put his boots down in the turns! lol
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Sounds like his MX bike is a lot faster than his SX bike! I think Tomac should just stick outdoors!! Let's see that epic speed!
 
Update from Eli:

“Shaking my head on yesterday’s crash, but what do you do, it’s Supercross and stuff happens…totally hammered my hip on my bike and footpeg. Nothing broke, just muscle beat up and locked up again. Almost identical injury to Cleveland, but the opposite side.

Quite the up and down season, but the highs were higher than the lows and I’m totally looking forward to my @ktmfactoryracing barking outdoors”
 
Webb once again proving he is a poor sport. Looking forward to seeing what Prado can do outdoors. Competition is going to be stacked for outdoor season.
 
Hondajimz said:
Looks like we all screwed the pooch on the final round. I scored 0 points. lol
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Uh, you need to learn from the Deegs how to do a top of the podium interview!
"Yeah dude, I was like striking keys like it was nothing...Esco was getting close, but yeah bro I just bumped his keyboard off his desk man like you know like yeah bro...Let's do this!"
 
These brothers are also pretty fast, gonna be fun

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Are we doing the RMFantasymx this year? Peace
 
Honda ranking? Mild reading :P

#1: Jeremy McGrath

Maybe the rider most associated with Honda, Jeremy McGrath took the sport by storm in his very first year in the premier class with the ’93 AMA Supercross title. Over his four-year span (’93-’96), he won every SX title and broke the records for all-time wins. His main event numbers while at Honda are insane: Over the course of 60 races, Jeremy won 43 times for a 71% win percentage. And when he got serious about Pro Motocross, he easily won the ’95 title outdoors. All told, Jeremy collected 57 wins for Honda and five championships.

#2: Ricky Carmichael

Look, there are different reasons for someone to be ranked high on this list besides winning. Like, how long did you ride for Honda while collecting wins? RC's reign at Honda was short—just three years—but my man did some serious winning throughout. Between 2002 and ’04, Carmichael won every title he competed for: all three motocross titles and two supercross crowns (Ricky missed the ’04 SX with a torn ACL). His time in red (during which he mostly wore orange Fox gear) saw him win an astonishing 33 outdoor nationals out of the 35 he entered, which included two perfect 12-for-12 seasons. All told, he won five championships, 51 total SX/MX races, and had a 76% overall win percentage on his Hondas, starting with the CR250R and then seamlessly transitioning to the CRF450R in ’04.

#3: Jett Lawrence

With 59 wins, Jett has the most wins of any Honda rider, although he gets the benefit of some of his 250 career being under the factory awning as well. Sorry, Jeremy! If you want to be a stickler and just include his premier class wins, the younger Lawrence is at 33 (with an 89% win percentage in 450 MX), and it doesn't appear that anything outside of injury can stop this Aussie. He's already got seven titles—and that's not counting his three straight SMX World Championships—for Honda, with many more to go.

#4: Rick Johnson

RJ was a great rider on factory Yamaha, but he went to the next level when he joined Team Honda and got on the production-based 1986 Honda bikes. Back then, there were two outdoor series the guys could run in the same year: 250 and 500, as well as SX. Between ’86 and the spring of ’89, Johnson won six titles and bagged 49 wins for Honda. He was a water-pipe DNF and some broken fingers away from two more titles, not to mention his wrist injury after he won five of the first six SX races in ’89. Then he broke his wrist. Rick was never the same rider after that. Johnson was the first real "showman" in the sport and, like McGrath (who idolized RJ), Ricky is most associated with Honda in the eyes of many.

#5: Jeff Stanton

Team Honda managers Dave Arnold and Roger De Coster saw something in the kid from Michigan—who had yet to win a professional race—when they signed him before the ’89 season. And when Rick Johnson went down early that season, Stanton rose to the occasion. Over the next four years, he won three SX championships and three Pro Motocross titles. Throw in four 250 U.S. Grand Prix wins and saving Team USA at the Motocross of Nations three straight years (’89 to ’91), and you have quite the career. The only real downside is that he only bagged 37 wins in his six years with Honda, giving him a 22% win average. But we don't call Jeff Stanton "22 Percent," we call him "6-Time."

#6: Marty Smith

The first American superstar in the sport, Marty Smith helped sell a lot of Honda Elsinores after he burst onto the scene in 1974 as a teenager and won the first 125 National Championship ever held. With his long hair and surfer look, he was the epitome of California cool, as well as the early face of Team Honda. He added a third outdoor title in the 500 Class in ’77, but a broken hip the following year ended his best days. During his six years with the team, he won nationals in all three classes that existed at the time, as well as SX main events, Trans-AMA races, and three 125 Grand Prix races. Smitty did all this while competing against everyone from Roger De Coster to Bob "Hurricane" Hannah.

#7: David Bailey

It was a bit of a gamble for Honda to pick David Bailey up for the ’82 season, but they were rewarded with four titles in four years. The "Little Professor" won both premier SX and MX titles in a 1983 dream season. DB also went 5-for-5 with Team USA at the MXoN, plus he won the ’82 U.S. 250cc Grand Prix at Unadilla. Oh, what could have been for David had a crash not ended his career before the start of the ’87 season.

#8: Jean-Michel Bayle

The enigmatic Frenchman won two FIM World Championships for Honda before jumping to the U.S. full-time for 1990. He was a broken arm away from winning the 125 Pro Motocross title that first year and a DNF away from winning the SX title that same year. Then came his 1991 season, when JMB swept all three titles (SX, 250 MX, and 500 MX) to become the only rider ever to do so. And then, just like that, he turned his attention to road racing, which he took up full-time after sleepwalking through the ’92 SMX season. All told, he had 23 wins and three titles here—and that's not counting his GP days.

#9: Johnny O'Mara

The O'Show has a few things that the two men behind him on this list don't have. First, there's an AMA Supercross title, which he earned in 1984. He also played a significant role with two others above him, as he coached and trained Ricky Carmichael throughout his career, and more recently Jett Lawrence (and his brother Hunter). All told, Johnny achieved 16 wins for Honda and a 125 Pro Motocross title (’83). And his rides for Team USA from 1981 through ’86 are the stuff of legend.

#10: Doug Henry

The working man's hero from Connecticut earns a spot here because of his three 125 titles (two MX, one SX) for Honda between ’93 and ’94. He moved up to the premier class full-time in ’95, secured a supercross win over Jeremy McGrath, but then had that all-time spectacular crash at Budds Creek. When he finally returned more than a year later, he was on another brand.
 
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