Proof: Pro Circuit's Dominate Season
Thursday, September 1, 2011 | 1:00 PM
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Incredibly, amazingly and awesomely, Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki has already clinched the top three spots in the 2011 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross 250 Championship. Not just now, they had it locked up a few weeks ago. Seriously. After Unadilla, everyone else was mathmatically eliminated from the top three!
Until last weekend, the team had won every single moto all season long, and, they have still taken all 10 overall wins. This 1-2-3 performance is clearly the most dominant run by a brand in the history of this class, and we have the stats to prove it.
Rattray, Baggett, and Wilson already have the top three spots locked up in the 250 Class.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Only one other time in the history of the class has a brand swept the top three spots in points, and even then, things were different. The year was 1974, the first year in which the AMA hosted a 125 National Championship. As such a new class, most manufacturers didn’t compete. Honda rolled out a bike effort behind its 125 Elisinore, and they swept the top three spots in the standings with Marty Smith, Bruce McDougal and Chuck Bower. The competition? Well, it consisted only of Yamaha rider Tim Hart, Can-Am’s Jimmy Ellis and Husqvarna’s Nils-Arne Nilsson. There were no factory riders in that class from Kawasaki or Suzuki or Maico or CZ or Bultaco.
So Honda swept the points, but they only won two of the four rounds courtesy of Smith. Hart and Ellis took the others.
That’s it. A four-round series. Otherwise, no other manufacturer has ever swept the top three in points, and the fact that this year’s Kawasaki squad is doing it against a stacked lineup in a 12-round tour makes the feat seem nearly impossible.
And yet, they’ve already pulled it off.
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I still hate the POP UPS on the site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate reading the posts now
Please get rid the popup that appears as the page is scrolled down. It is very annoying. I will get to the rest of the stories in due time.
I think I may be going to MXA mags website.... RacerX's site has about the same amount of pop ups as does Speeds' tv coverage. If I CANT SEE THE SCREEN I AINT STAYIN VERY LONG !!!!
What the hell is up with that damn popup.What the hell RacerX
agree don't like the pop up at all pitch it please worse than the flashing boot add
They still run the flashing boot ad.I bought new boots last week.I was going to get Alpinestars and then I thought about that add and bought sidi boots instead.
I try to never complain about free stuff but yes this pop up is lame, I cant even close it. And yes I understand this website is supported by advertising which is great but ditch this pop up
Guys, turn the pop up to a slide out that the user can select or not. Just a little tab on the side that can be clicked and a slide out with "you might like".
Thank you
These pop-ups remind me of Obamanomics. Just when I was getting comfortable, somebody barges in and taxes the hell out of me...or taxes my patience.
PROOF>> more proof there is NO one looking at the engine sizes on the procircus bikes,\.
PROOF>> money and Mitch get away with ruing the lites class.
PROOF>> There is a valid reason the manufatures dont want Mitch in the 450 class. He cheats
No way No how ONE brand can dominate like that without special favors JUST for them..
do they feel sorry for him ? come on dude !!!
No inspections makes for no spectators.
pull you pants up
COBRA forever
Yes! Verrrry Annoying! I haven't figured out how to filter it, using Adblock yet. But there is a basic trick you can use. Resize your browser to just under your screen dimensions (do not maximize) and then you can slide the bottom of the page, off the screen.
We can do without the pop ups
@ Knobbywan_Kawnobi...good advice, however to most of us it is not that we can 'see' the pop up, but mostly about it blocking part of the screen (well it kinda is, I can't ever click on a blank spot on a page anymore to give it focus, it always takes me to a damn add on another page since they are so crammed now) . So if we slide it as you say it actually blocks even more of the screen. And don't you just love how once you get to the very botton of the window where the subscribe add is the pop-up 'magically' disappears again. Nice!
FREE folks FREE......this is how you get all of this great content for free without paying one red cent............deal with it !
Carlsbad (and 11 others as of now which, makes it unanimous) "does not like" pop-out. Thumbs down.
Agreed, the boot ad was annoying enough...........
Yes, the popups suck. To comment on the article...Jason, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Rick Johnson, David Bailey and Johnny O'Mara took the top three spots in 1986 250 National Motocross and Supercross series. And O'mara was 34 points shy of making the sweep in the 500 class as well. As Mr. Know-It-All used to say, "You really should have known."
If you paid any attention, you would have noticed that Weigant was talking about the lights class, which used to be the 125 class. No where did he say anything about 250's or 500's.
Are you serious? Do you know how many people pro circuit builds engines for? You think he is just scheming in his office figuring out how to cheat his way to the top? Also I know in the past pro circuit has paid their riders less than other teams, and in regards to money a factory team can use their money to do everything mitch does. Lay off the meth you idiot.
I'm so poor I can't pay attention! Just kidding...my bad. How's this for an excuse? "The pop-up got in my way!" BTW, if YOU paid any attention you'd learn to spell "Weigandt", "Lites" and "nowhere." And finally, if I'm old enough to know about mid-80's Honda teams, perhaps you could give one small benefit of doubt that I know it used to be called the 125 class. See? We all make simple mistakes, d-bag.
Understood! Yeah, I use a dual monitor setup and keep my browser on the monitor that is orientated in the portrait mode, so I have a lot more vertical real estate to play with!
I have to admit at first the pop-up was annoying,but now I don't even notice it.It's really not a big deal.In fact I am going to click on the Larry Brooks article.
great story weege but aPOP UP ruined it.
I rock a netbook. I do not own a full sized Pc with a big screen. the pop up covers seriously almost half the content heightwise and a good 2/3 of my screen horizontally.
Please, can you jsut make it a solid bar above the article I can scroll past? PLEASE!!!!
thank you
michael
Is it me...... or when you look at that chic on the far left yuoor waiting for her to say "Gigity!"
@cobra johnnie
Im not sure what you are talking about, but the top three in every race get their motors torn apart and measured by the AMA just to make sure they are not cheating. You can bet, if they are a front runner, they are 100% legal because of inspections. Just hang around after a race one time and watch it happen.