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The season starts this weekend.
Here's a few items of interest and opinion.
KTM and their top guy, Cooper Webb won it all in 2021. Unlike a few other venues, and riders, he is expected to forgo his usual #2 and run the #1 plate. Word has he has changed trainers, and the bike and chassis are different. Besides that, he's still single with no kids. No health issues. Confident to being what some would call cocky. And backed by if not the strongest, certainly one of the best factory teams in the game.
The big story, Greens number 1 guy, Eli Tomac, moving over to Yamaha blue. No health issues, at the peak of his career, a past Champion, will run his #3 plate this year. Will the
change in teams, the relatively new wife and kids, the reverse motor and general different feel the Yamaha gives, hurt him? One thinks, together, they will. There's a lot to chew for Tomac this go round.
Ken Roczen, Honda's Great white hope, #94, it has to be showtime for him.
He's got it all. Talent, and he's Big Reds top guy. A bike, well, it's a factory Honda.
The baggage.....Ken has been hurt, really hurt, a few times since he moved up into the 450 ranks. That he's even still in it is amazing. He also has a kinda new wife and kid.
He should have won it last year, but seemed to run out of stamina in the last half of the season. A super nice guy, some would say too nice, it would be real good to see him grab the brass ring. But, with Webb in it, and a few young guys coming on strong, #94 has his work cut out for him.
Frenchman Marvin Musquin, Husquvarnas Zack Osborne, Dylan Ferrandis and the factory GasGas rider Justin Barcia are all dark horses this season.
Here's a preview of what's to come.......
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqLsrYvCxE