Carlo Coen 20x D.34 Expert champ. He was my coach during my best season in 2001. And what the tape doesn't show is that Carlo was leading J-M Bayle for most of that race, like for 20 minutes after he caught up to him. I've seen Carlo do the same at the end of this season and hold off Factory Suzuki rider Johnny Omara at Raceway Park in NJ. A last lap berserk desperation pass by Omara got him the win...but that's how good Carlo waa in his peak. . Carlo and Kurt McMillen, who finished 7th in. 500ccc nationals with very little support, are the guys who paved the way for the Scott Sheak, Justin Barcia, Phil Nicoletti era of north east factory riders.
vetb882. You forgot to mention Ryan Mills who was Carlos prodigy he won a moto in Texas and was on the Amsol Honda team at one point him and Mike Leavitt use to race in my class. Jimmy Weiner was the first guy in our area to make it though...
@@RS-dq3mp, locally... my son beat Mills every week but we could not spend more on MX than the Mills family, In the end, my son is healthy and doing well, while Mills is a pill head
Thanks for these, it's awesome to see these from back in the day! Tell ya what though, I do not miss the cheeeezy announcing. "These are liquid cooled, two wheeled projectiles!" WTF? Thank you again though
Today, the FIM must have "persuaded" all 12 national private land track owners to turn into their tracks into sand over time. There are no hard pack tracks, and the new "Scoop Tires" are used for every national, (and would have been great on this track too.). But none of the tracks today,---are as MOTO as this track was back then. Put a road racing engine in a dirt bike, and the tracks get closer to road race tracks. It would still work the other way around too.
Bayle was not interested in this cathegory , he was world champion on 250 (and on 125). Honda , said him , ok for supercross , but first year you use a 125 for outdoor not a 250.
Huffmanisms: "Jeff Ward has been racing since he was an egg." "He has thighs like Roseanne Barr, except there's muscle under there." Motormouth was one of a kind...
