Racer X Notebook: Budds Creek
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 | 5:30 PM
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Print- No matter how you lay out a motocross track or how you prep it, things are going to change. At Budds Creek, a whole bunch of riders commented on how much they like the track and how much fun it is. Justin Barcia even said Budds has the best dirt of the season! That said, the track, which didn’t feature any major layout changes this year, did form up differently in some of the corners than it had last year, just due to the typical variances in weather, soil condition and track prep. But just about all of the riders said it was fun to ride on!
- Poor Nick Wey sure has trouble with the sight lap. Last week at High Point, the Valli Motorsports Rockstar rider wanted to do a practice start in the mud, but when he got to the first turn, he was told you can’t practice and start and go back to the line—you have to do a full lap if you go past the gate. Nick was the only rider to do a parade before that moto. This time, before the second moto, Wey rode over the gate to begin his sight lap, but the gate apparently didn’t go all the way down, and Wey’s tire caught it and sent him flipping. He got up bruised and completed his lap, and then the MX Sports crew replaced his gate with a new one while he was out. He returned, the new gate worked perfectly, and Wey, battered and bruised, took 19th.
Wey rebounded from his sight lap troubles to finish 19th in moto two.
Photo: Simon Cudby
- Before the race, the GEICO Honda team announced that Justin Barcia had gotten some blood work done after the High Point National, and it turns out he has mono. But he’s about three weeks into it, which is supposed to mean his body has begun the healing process. Doctors recommended Barcia sit at home and rest, but he refused to, and instead sat out the second practice to rest. He ended up on the podium overall via 6-2 scores.
- Darryn Durham’s crash in the first 250 moto—while running fourth—may or may not have been the result of a broken front fork. Hard to say if the fork broke and caused the crash, or the crash caused the fork to break. By the time he was done tumbling, the fork lugs were ripped off, and the front brake caliper was dangling. He DNFed the moto, but came back for eighth in moto two.
- Nothing major changed on the bike for the second moto for Chad Reed. He simply improved his riding to go from a distant third in moto one to a strong performance—and win—in moto two.
- The Russians are coming! Evgeny Mikhaylov, listed from Maikop City, Russia, finished 28th in the 450 class via 26-27 moto scores.
- Mike Brown has now scored 31 points (already) this season after racing at Hangtown and Budds Creek, which means he has clinched running his traditional number three for the 2012 season. Brown wants to make it clear, though, that he is not running the races just to keep the number, he’s racing because he wants to race. “I’m going to lose the number eventually so that doesn’t matter to me,” says the Tennessee veteran. He went 12-13 for 13th overall at Budds.
What can Brown do for you? Keep the number 3 plate obviously.
Photo: Simon Cudby
- The Muscle Milk/Toyota JGR team says Justin Brayton will be back in action this weekend at Lakewood in Colorado. Brayton missed the first few races with an ankle injury suffered at the Las Vegas SX.
- And Josh Grant was back in action after tearing his ACL at the Phoenix supercross. He logged solid 8-10 scores for 10th overall. With JG back, Kevin Windham was free to head home and enjoy a summer with the family. Budds was supposed to be his last race, but now we’re hearing K-Dub may be back as soon as….this weekend in Colorado! Stay tuned!
- Silly season rumors are getting hotter, and expect a big move to come soon. Ryan Dungey, a free agent, is the first name on the list, and don’t expect any movement anywhere until he settles in. Dungey could be back with Rockstar Makita Suzuki. The Red Bull KTM and Muscle Milk Toyota JGR squads are courting his as well.
- The first-ever Monster Energy Cup is coming to Las Vegas in October. This event is ostensibly a replacement for the U.S. Open as far as taking place in the fall, in Vegas, but it’s a totally different event, taking place at Sam Boyd stadium, offering a three-main-event format and $1 Million to anyone who can sweep all three mains. Feld Motorsport’s Dave Prater was on hand at Budds Creek to check out the action and discuss the Cup with riders and teams.
Motorsports advocate and former Governor of Utah, John Huntsman (center) was on hand at Budds Creek.
Photo: Simon Cudby
- Prater wasn’t the only one on hand to shake hands. John Huntsman, former Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China, was spotted at the race. Today, Huntsman announced he was running from president in 2012. Watching the races at Budds Creek can get a man fired up!
- Rock River Yamaha’s Vince Friese collected the Muscle Milk recovery award for the biggest improvement from moto one to moto two. After a big crash with Kyle Keylon in moto one, Friese finished 36th. He collected 20th in moto two. And Ryan Dungey won the Rockstar Fast Lap Award, which goes to the rider who logged the fastest lap time in the second 450 moto.
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The ex governor's mormon robot in the teal v-neck is super pumped.
Vote for Hunstman.... He likes bikes and this could be an open door for our off road riding right to stay open....
friese completely took out keylon in the first moto, the slam was so loud it was crazy, keylons header was destroyed and burnt through the coolant hose. kyle was ready to beat his ass but held back
speaking of brown trying to keep #3, dungey should definately go back to #5. Think about this 1. rc never wore #1 because it was too much "wieght". 2. the year js got to wear #1when he broke his wrist and almost ended his career (not that, that would be a bad thing). 3. Chad narrowly lost the '09 sx championship when he wore #1, but won the mx championship the same year when he wore #22. Therefore, it feels like the only person to do good with the #1 was rv in his lites days when he won all of those championships.
That's great huntsman is running and loves bikes.That is just not enough for him to be my pic for presidency,look at the jackass we have in office now.Promises.Promises F "in moron.Just because you can make a good speech nowdays don't mean shit.Although at this point I would rather have Huntsman or any worthy opponent rather than OBAMA.
Oh by the way all you past Reed haters..................................SUCK IT!
I believe they are required to wear the number 1 plate now. I dont think it is a choice they have. That is why Reed wore it at Kawasaki.
@mxsp17 HELL YEA! i second that
Liberals Suck
I was super pumped to see that first comment. Dungey will come through, unfortunate people have a view of him being consistent and not quite the raw speed as the other 2, although he has definitely laid down the best motos and times, damn suzuki gas tanks
Conservatives blow. Hard.
If anybody is interested look up Huntsman's bloodline. It comes from the same bloodline as all the other presidents of the United States, which is from the british royal family...and yes Obama is no different.
As for the race I wish Bagget was closer to the front so he could challenge Rattray. Next time he will put it to the rest of the field I hope.
How did Nick Wey make this article? That guy hasn't done much more than maintain a ride year after year. He needs to move on or ride on his own dime.
K-dub for President!! Hope he's back for more this summer.
It says Huntsman is "running from President." Hopefully he'll be running AFTER that America-ruining usurper with the multi-layered fake birth certificate and multiple social security numbers who was born in Kenya...not mentioning any names. Hopefully Huntsman will chase his ass all the way back to Kenya! Nomesane? Word up. System-lifeblood-sucking-ass libtards.
Thank god we don't have a president born in Kenya...but one who was born in America
I see jair the racist js7 stalker has returned. Don't you get enough Rush on your way to the klan meetin' .Lets turn a MOTO comment site into political s*#t .we don't get enough on tv ,newspaper, radio and internet. It's one thing to comment on Mr.Huntsmans moto connection (and his superpumped mormon robot -f'ing hilarious) but that hateful my teams better than your team , kenyan , blah blah blah politico crap is old ,boring and it blows . .........Glad to see Brayton returning and soon Canard I hope.
Brayton just might shake some stuff up and It would be good to have KW14 for the whole season his wild hair might grow and win one of these never know? No this is not a plitical forum so lets keep it that way, thanks.
All you die hard conservatives are idiots. We had that for 8 years and look where it got us. Ruined economy, and you idiots want more?? We have Republicans in control of Congress now and the economy will not get better with those idiots there. All you dummys voted in the same idiots that got vored out in 2008, stupid!! Just because a guy likes moto doesnt make him a good President. And I dont see any Republicans battling to keep any rights for dirtbikers. A Democrat signed the first draft to repeal the lead law, and was the main sponser of the repeal. You die-hard Conservatives are either millionaire oil barons, own an insurance company, or just idiots.
Hey "All Politicians Suck", before you open your mouth why don't you do your research. Your party has been running things for 4 years. Last two with Bush were a Dem. Controlled senate and house and these last 2 it's been all Dems. Plus under your friends we increased the deficit 4 trillion dollars. Its sad but these are the idiots that have no clue what's really going on and vote these boneheads into office.
Wake up you numb skulls. Neither party runs America. The zionist lobby groups do that with their big bucks. Obamanation is a puppet, just like that moron Bush was before him. The unseen puppeteers are the same though. They have big noses and own the Fed, the media, and run holywood.
Democracy is a sham. We live in a one party state dictatorship, only it´s so well diguised, most of the brain dead the the land of the free don´t even realise it.
Wake TFU people.
Yeah, I forgot. Reed is the MAN.
Attention Racer X and racing fans....Not too many songs dedicated to moto heads, but here is a fine little tune.
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Rothschild's run the planet. you run the money, you run the planet. There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya
RC4....for pres!
The Dems had the Congress for 2 years out of 8, idiot. And they didnt have enough control to do anything they wanted like the first 6 for the Repubs. Do some homework yourself before you run yopur suck-hole. Bush can in with a budget surplus and virtually no unemployment. And look where we were when he left--enough said..
Bush had the biggest terror attack in history and the biggest Natural disaster with Hurricane Katrina. Obama's pain is self inflicted by his extremely Liberal agenda. You may think your statement is "enough said", but hard working people are not blinded by his smile anymore.
Obama is a puppet, but he's a puppet of a certain middle easterner with a shop towel wrapped around his dome who financed his run for President.
Readbeard, thanks for the effort and all but the song is less then spectacular. The whole vid is pretty much crap. Keep jammin' and if you get better throw another one up, but for now please stop putting up that link. I've been suckered into it like three friggin' times now.
this comments is now just political crap. if your looking for moto comments you've come to the wrong place.
@pizzacorner, Bush had the biggest terror attack, and what did he do?? Invaded the wrong country, because of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" right?? Remember that. Bush said the next attack would come from Iraq in the form of "A mushroom cloud" Great big lie. He knew there where no weapons there. And got thousands of unnocent civilians and our soldiers killed for it. And spent millions of dollars a week doing it. Sickening lies. Obama can only do what the REpubs. in control let him do, dont forget that. I am not a liberal, not a big fan of Obama, but I am smart enough to admit that the Repubs. and Bush got us here..Dont care what party they belong too.