Jeffrey Herlings and Ken De Dyker were at the Suzuki Top Gun Showdown at Muddy Creek??

Gotta be a typo.

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I noticed that too. Guess Herlings is not only a sand specialist, but he can ride in the mud too!

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Nice fix from the MEC!! now the long wait till A1.

.RV showed he still has it, Not sure if i buy the bent shifter on RD's bike? once Ok but twice?? somthing wrong in the trany maybe? the 2013 season is looking good, JB and ET looked real good. Bet ET is really not going to want to go back to the 250 now!!

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Rv has it for sure. I hope he's alright. Was surprised by weimers results, maybe he was sick or something? Now lets hope that everyone gets through 13 healthy! Should be an epic season!

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@BillC, that was just the "throw back" style of shifting, say 1991 KTM is all, that was. I think your right btw.

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As fast as Adam C was saturday night, he aint ready for A1. That kid is the future of the sport but he just doesnt look strong enough after only months on a big bike. Let the kid grow a little. He has his entire life ahead of him and if I were an amature like him I would cherish this last year. After Lorettas next year, he will be a full time employee and a tax payer. Oh, and I am amazed at how well he speaks in interviews. Shane McElrath looked equally impressive an the track. The future looks bright indeed.

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Very fun to watch this year! BUT....next year I'd like to condense it some. Maybe don't show the LCQ and just have one race in between the mains???

The cream will rise to the top a few races into 2013 folks. RV, RD and Reed are still the ones to watch in my opinion. RV looked as good as ever. RD's bike looked better than ever(set up wise) and Reed simply used this event to measure where he's at and I think he looked really good on the bike. I sincerely believe JB, TC and JS will crash their way out of the championship fairly early.

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RV showed us that the "speed to lead" nowadays is unsafe for anyone. All the well-wishes in the world aren't going to keep a "top-five speed" racer off the mat, that's just all there is to it.

DeCoster's statement "it WON'T happen again" (regarding the shifter issues) was pretty cryptic...........I'm wondering what's going on there???

Somebody needs to get a nickname for Adam Whatever quick 'cause I'm gonna get REAL tired of his name getting butchered..........mostly by me.

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Oh yeah, ........."split start" 1, racers 0. The merge (otherwise known in highway terminology as the "gore point") was flat dangerous. If some racer was paralyzed in an incident there, their family could sue, and win, a major lawsuit against the track-builder / promoter / organizer / sanctioning body / etc.........what's next guys? Flaming rings? Jumping over Lions? Christ-Almighty! Leave it to the people that run the circus to create an "entertaining" obstacle that makes cannon-fodder out of professional athletes.............EPIC FAIL.

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Lets not get into lawsuits!!! How about if you don't thinks it's safe don't race??

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RD ran the whole 3rd moto in 2nd

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Come on carlsbad, it wasn't that bad. I thought the racing was pretty good and the split start didn't look to bad. If Barum and Bailey or Ringley Brothers start promoting these races, then you might see a few tigers and flaming rings. At least in is not Zwart Cross, like in Holland.

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@ CZmark, if memory serves, it was mini racers (Tennant?) that crossed the entire merge point at a 90 degree angle to the opposing racers. The percentage of something terrible happening was unfavorably high. Is the idea sound? Sure, it was the execution that left a giant liability issue. More room and a retaining / dividing wall to extend the merge point was needed to pull it off safely.

In any situation, I always say "put the shoe on the other foot" and see what they see. All I see in this situation is Feld (the people that own the rights to Barnum & Bailey Circus AND SX, hence all the nuclear cowboy commercials) cheaped out on the execution and left racers safety hanging in the wind.

I can understand a teen or twenty-something saying "no guts, no glory". That's fine, false machismo is for the people barely intelligent enough to dress themselves anyways but, what if it was your kid on the line? Obviously the sentiment is different.

Did it bring something extra to the race? Yes. Did it separate this race from the rest of the SX series? Yes. Fan approval? Unknown at this time, same for racer approval.................BUT, how many times out of ten do you get the same result? Everybody has injuries on their minds and this is a step in the wrong direction to keep the talent out on the field.

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