This shows that James is a better rider. He fights from 2nd to get the lead, gets passed goes to 2nd again and gets the lead again and finishes on top. Plus if you noticed Reed got all up in his face during the practice qualifying and was mouthing. James rode hard and put his money where his mouth was. Congrats best battle i've seen!
I've been following this sport since 1999 and let me tell you James Stewart is hands down the most aggressive rider by far. Only when he wants to be these days though. I'll never forget that 16 year old kid who came in at Glen Helen in 2002 at the outdoors nationals opener and smoked everyone. From that point on I've followed him closely and he deserves respect.
richie horton your confusing speed with consistency. theres a difference of course, but james is by far the fastest just not consistent. your argument is invalid I've argued this exact same argument with many people over the years and the data is there to prove I'm correct.
richie horton nope he made it up , if you look at even pro racers before he entered the sport no one did it. mcgrath never did it and carmichael never did it , UNTIL stewart did it
Stewart was crazy out of control on the first jump after the holeshot. I don't know how he saved it. This is definitely the best SX race of the year. You can tell James Stewart is cruising when he's following Reed. When they start racing hard, Bubba looks like he's just shot out of a cannon. It shows just how fast he is.
Man, this was intense as fuck. Just wish the quality was better. I wanna see a four way race for first with Stewart, Villopoto, Dungey, and Reed. I would throw McGrath in there, but, you know.
+noah bancroft " He couldn't keep up with Stewart and Chad " ... Haha yeah right, that's why he won 4 STRAIGHT SUPERCROSS TITLES from 2011 to 2014. Not mentioning the outdoor ones.
Forget personalities. We don't know these guys in real life anyway. What you are shown on TV probably isn't who they really are in everyday life anyway. I'm just always glad to see these two awesome athletes battling.
I've said it before, and ill say it again. When you ride aggressively, there will be bumping, but there is a fine line between aggressive riding to try to pass competitors, and aggressive riding to try to crash competitors. No one has ever seen stewart purposely crash someone. Reed on the other hand....
Chad Reed - Traveled miles to go race in the USA n made a name for himself with the likes of Roger 'The Man' DeCoster. James Stewart Jr. - Born and brought up in the states and been racing on these tracks ever since he started MX! Ima HUGE bubba fan (definitely the fastest man on Earth), but Chad Reed is my IDOL!!
@aklaful Yes we all remember that ONE race... They are both awesome. Without fantastic rivalries like this the sport would be dull. Embrace them both. And it looks like they had good words after that race. Me thinks Reed said "good clean race there dude".. Thats what we wanna see!!!!
wheres the interviews from james and chad. i really want to see what they said about that battle. chad normally has a sook. james normally says its racing.. and i didn't see any dirty moves on james' part here so idk why chad had to go up to him at the end of the race and bitch lol
Enough with the shit talking people. Lets be thankful that these guys have the talent and speed to entertain us. I watch this vid and it just makes me want to go to the track.
Reed is consistent, thats why hes always in the points chase. He has so much bike control, and he never rides above his ability. Stewart rides above his ability and thats why hes always crashing. If reed wanted to go as fast as Stewart he could but he stays in his comfort zone. Whenever stewart loses he blames something or somebody else. Stewart is the one taking people out, Carmichael even says it in this video.
The reason james stayed behind him until the last 5 laps is he wanted to put alot of pressure and scare the shit out of reed and make him try hard as hell to stay in front, but it still didnt work.
I don't mind the hate between these two at all. Makes for good entertainment. Reed needs to train harder, so he's at stuarts pace or closer at least to make for better racing.
man i wish i could have heard what they were saying to each other after the race. lol but i would have liked it even more if they could respect each other and support each others victoires.
