by Aaron Hansel
The Moment: Musquin and Seely
Monday, January 23, 2012 | 4:40 PM
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In every race, there is a moment in which the outcome of the race is altered. Sometimes that moment is minor, and sometimes its magnitude is so great it creates shockwaves large enough to affect the championship itself. In the Lites class on Saturday night, both Cole Seely and Marvin Musquin experienced incidents of the latter proportion.
Seely’s dose of bad luck was delivered early when he thundered into the first turn, mere inches from securing the holeshot. Instead, he went off the track and crashed after being pushed wide by the pack. By the time Seely rejoined the race, he was in a very distant twentieth place. Several laps later, Seely would go down again, and ended up finishing the night a lap down in fifteenth place.
Seely was unable to rebound from a bad start in L.A.
Photo: Simon Cudby
Marvin Musquin, who was running in fourth after a lousy start, experienced his moment on the thirteenth lap. Just when it looked like he was going to transform the fight for second between Dean Wilson and Zach Osborne into a three-man battle, he went down in a rhythm section, and a DNF ensued.
“I was really close to Wilson and he didn’t jump the last triple in the rhythm section, and I landed too far and too much on the left side in the corner,” Musquin explained to Racer X Senior Editor Jason Weigandt. “It was soft and muddy and I didn’t expect that my bike would stop when I landed. I hit my handlebars really bad and I couldn’t breathe after that crash.”
Consisting of just nine races, the Lites SX series’ are short, and even one bad result can prove devastating to a racer’s title hopes. With just six races remaining in the Western Regional SX Lites series, Seely (sixteen points down) and Musquin (twenty-one points down) are now faced with the daunting reality of a must-win situation every time they line up for a main event. With Tomac and Wilson both riding extremely strong right now, that’s going to be tall order to fill.
Musquin's title chances took a hit after crashing in L.A.
Photo: Simon Cudby
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Musquin will be the new Pourcel in Lites Outdoors minus the injuries and freak DNF.
Musquin looked fast.
Im truly bummed for Marvin about this!! i really like that kid and i believe he had what it took to be fighting for the title this year, as they said a DNF is pretty hard to recover from in these short Lites seasons. Keep your head up Marvin and get back out there and fight for some wins...ya never know!!
I missed the Los Angeles Lites race today that aired on Speed because my piece of s@#t dvr did not record the race, even after I programmed it to. I pay $0.00 a month for cable and internet and the only reason I do so is so I can watch moto on Speed and then the dvr doesn't work. Anybody know where or how I can view this race? Please help!
Anybody know why SPEED is not re-airing the lites race from L.A. ? Last year they always had a repeat showing. WTF SPEED?
@jojo - I am sure someone will have it up on YouTube within a few days. I hope my POS PVR worked, I'll know in an hour or so....
Marvin was fast and getting faster! He was working on his next victim when he decelerated from 34 mph to 0 mph in the length of a KTM 250
My guess..50+ G load
Ouch, my internal organs ache just reviewing that in my mind.
I'll be rooting for you at the next race Marvin, Hope you make a complete recovery.
The Los Angeles lites race will be aired on FUEL TV Tuesday 12:00am,5:00pm and Friday 4:00am.
JoJo, maybe paying $0 a month is the problem? haha j/k
Where do you get $0 a month, I want that deal.
Musquin's crash looked like a real nut-crusher, I cringed when I saw it...
Lites coverage was much better! Both heat races, thanks SPEED.
So bummed for Marvin he was ripping it, It would of been awesome to see him sneek by osborne or wilson. They can show both lites heats because the lites do less laps in the main and heats.
^ And Speed didn't have 30 minutes of commercials in an hour of broadcasting.
Seely's "moment" at the start came because Marv pushed him off the track.
You people are all morons!!! Clearly this French Idiot Musquin ran our American boy Cole Seely off the track. Well French Fry Karma is payback and your butt got thrown off your bike and you got a big DNF. I hope Seely parks that idiot in Oakland and sends him back to France!!! Your not going to gain any fans in the south Musquin riding dirty!!! Seely keep your head up you were very impressive at A1 and your still in it!!!
@Rebelflag12
You don't frighten us, America pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Cole Seely," you and all your silly American R-id-ers