RICKY CARMICHAEL VS JAMES STEWART - 2007 OUTDOORS 

These guys revolutionized the sport! My “Christmas” was going to SX in Atlanta every year to watch the #4, #7, & #22 battle it out! Man, great times!

My favorite thing about this is that its such clean racing. Not one cheap shot by either of them.

Crazy to think RC was smoking everybody before Stewart was in the picture and RC had to get even faster to beat Stewart when he was in the picture. RC was whooping everyone and not even at his fastest yet Stewart elevated him to that level. RC the GOAT no question but Stewart a legend for changing the sport entirely and doing things no one else would even think about trying. This was the best time period in MX/SX I'm grateful to have been so indulged in the sport at that age.

R.C was so damn fast, I miss that era of Mx/Sx.

james was great, but ricky, was just ridic.

NOBODY has ever been faster on a bike than Stewie...and nobody learned how to win a championship like RC. Much respect to both.

You can see the mental pain every interview with Stewart knowing he was doing everything he possibly could and it was still not enough. Simply crushed mentally. Charmicheal is not the greatest motocrosser of all time.....he's the greatest athlete of all time....it's a shame more people don't realize this.

I feel this season really helped James to come back the next year and dominate 2008 outdoors

It's to bad these guys had to get old. Nobody else was even in the picture. Miss them both.

The greatest Bubba scrub ever at 20:49

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Though he's possibly the DOG of T.V. analyst, RC is the GOAT of MX and it's not even close.

This is why RC is the GOAT. Everyone wants to say how Bubba was the fastest guy to ever race. Watch this video and tell me how anyone was faster than RC outdoors. He was definitely faster than Bubba.

I like how you can actually hear the bikes instead of just hearing the commentary

These two were going as fast as it was humanly possible to ride a motorcycle. Poetry in motion!

Equal talent, equal likeability. The only two champions who "I want him to win" applies to them both equally. They are the epitome of what champions are... I love them both!

Im not gonna sit here and make excuses..................... but I dont know what happen, I just started feeling sick

This doesn’t even feel like 14 years ago i remember this like it was yesterday Its just insane how much of in another league they were each race

RC could start the 2021 Nationals and still Top 10

Not taking anything away from Carmichael but it just seemed like his bike was way more powerful than stewards

Man I sure miss when it was just two strokes. Rc was in stoppable on a CR250

Like Tyson vs Jones legendary boxing. I would pay to watch these two play if they were 70 years old lol

We never gonna see racing at this level in MX... Mark my words.

I was at James first win in the premier class still on 2 strokes in Dallas, I was at his last win in St Louis when he scrubbed past Ryan Villopoto over the triple right in front of me. Every race I won, even though I was a carmichael and Reed fan. Still love James though, now more than ever.

Eli tomac vs chase Sexton 2022 especially if chase goes on to win a championship or two. Is a season/battle for the record books. In the future it will be looked at close to this level. The level they were at compared to competition and Eli is a legend in the sport in the ranks with Stewart and Ricky, and a few others. I'll definitely miss watching those guys racing. There will be someone to step up in the future as well, just have to keep watching to see

I liked Bubba a lot, but RC was in an entire other class, all alone, above any other rider to ever show up. Bubba was great, but compare him to people like McGrath and RV, great riders......but RC dominated everyone his entire career

People should not say Stewart was the fastest. Clearly Ricky was... Ricky ALWAYS gapped him or chased him down

Ricky was good but bubba when healthy, no one faster before during or since he raced. I have been to raced from bob hannah to present. Bubba was the fastest ever to ride dort bike. Guy could start dead last and win heat or main, against the best in his day. No one, and there were grwat ones, no one could match his speed. Wrecks and injuries is why he was not champ every yr as pro. He only had one speed, WFO. NOT BEST FOR WINNING TITLES. But more fun to watch than anyone.

Such sick racing! 30:06 that hay bail on this inside reached up and grabbed Stewart’s front brake lever lol.

when Stewart was on a 125 Carmichael was on a 250,when Stewart was learning the 250 Carmichael was well way riding a 450,yet still Stewart is the only rider to give the fans a great battle against Carmichael

best outdoor races ever was when these two were on the same track

Ricky knew how to race james even on the weekend where james was faster. No doubt ricky would have won this title

It must have really sucked being a rider during the Carmichael era!

have our commentator Jeff emig ever riden against Carmichael????

Best racing of my generation, hands down. I feel blessed to have been a fan and bear witness to the most gnar bar to bar during such an epic evolution and progression of this sport with some world class athletes

Never mind the racing- we are still GIFTED to STILL being able to hear the voice of one of the absolute GREATEST (GOAT) announcers of all time Mr BRIAN DREBBER - the ENTIRE motorcycle misses you dearly

🕊🇺🇸WWG1WGA🇺🇸🕊️ Gratitude!!!🙏

The good old days of bubba and Ricky racing and at my hometown track

Riding at that level always on the limit it comes down to who makes the least amount of mistakes !

It’s crazy to see how good off the gay Stewart was and even crazier to see RC hunt him down over and over again, even when messing up and Stewart passes him RC charges back to the front, he was clearly all around faster than JS but just y that much🤏🏻

Stewart and Ricky Bobby. Ya ain't first, your last

There was no number three

It bothered me sooo bad that 07 season when he left after 6 rds because he had that championship locked that year, too. (Imo). I know he was content with his decision, but as a fan, especially a Ricky Carmichael fan, he's my all-time fav racer ever in MX, then R.V. is my 2nd. But man, he looked absolutely flawless those 6 rds. We have the king M.C. and of course, the G.O.A.T R.C. what a time in MX n I don't kno if his records will ever be broken outdoors.

I think Ricky's fitness was better than James.

its crazy how james was always behind with bikes..had to ride a 2 stroke vs 4 strokes..he leaves kawasaki in 09 they get fuel injection he goes to yamaha in 09 the fuel injected bikes came way later..i bought a yfz450 quad and if i waited 3 months i couldve gotten fuel injection

Stewart was the fastest ever, only a little faster than RC, but Stewart was reckless and RC was overall the better racer because of Stewart being so reckless.

Carmichael is the real champion here, yeah stewart is fast but he never accomplished what carmichael did, saw how he chickened out of doing a backflip because mommy and daddy said not to do it, then Chad Reed lands a 45 foot backflip and rides away from it, I guess Chad has less fear than James and makes his own decisions

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Just proves RC is the goat. No if and or buts about it. He just is! Especially when you look at how he ended his career and how James ended his... RC went out on top like a true champ! James is the 2nd best though hands down. He’s one hell of a racer just not the beat to ever so it is all.

What was the one guys name up a d coming great rider thunk takanka or something he wrecked and hurt his knee real bad so he kind of stopped racing. May not saying his name coreect but good rider he wrecked a few times hurt his knee and leg did risk it for sport so not scared just stopped spectator racing not saying that bad respect to all the fans just did risk leg for it I guess but Tanaka or something like that. Thinking he was a 2stroke 250 rider. 125 250 rider

I was too young to watch these legends battle and revolutionize the sport. But as i watch older videos of these guys i really see how far this sport has come. This video gives me feels of when i used to race. Just nitty gritty racing and no resistance for the lead.

RC and baker ....What Did he put in his food?????????????????

These announcers are horrible ..esp that british/English/Australian accent

Just listening to the commentary is very interesting

Wow Stewart dealt with a lot of "segregation" in his career, even when he wins, its Ricky that gets interviewed about being number two. No wander Stewaart was this good, but not many people know him, for a long time i thought "James Stewart" was a white rider, because they do not show him enough on the telly. But this killed the sport somewhat, the white riders did not get to learn enough from him as they should have. If you wanna know the sort of "-ism" im talking about, listen at 2:22, what the commentor says when Stewart passes Ricky. And also, the general folk, never wanna say "Stewart was good" or even "best", they would rather say "these two raced well together" to bring Ricky in to a spotlight that should otherwise be centered on James Stewart. I ll say it for him, this was the best rider in the sport, period, stats or no stats, can you say that about any other rider? No.

Best race ever the 2 fastest riders to ever throw a leg over a bike.

Great yrs... Reed only got his 2 titles because ricky and james got hurt or he'd have zero.....

It's when they start to t-bone each other on the turns , even though legal, stupid shit ain't right.

Legendary motocross racing I’ll always love it

Watching them race each other and talk about kicking ass and getting ass kicked is the coolest.

No contest! Stewart Eats dirt and the goat laughs all the way 2 the win

Ricky was a surgeon on the track and Stewie was "win or die" on the track

30:33. That whip tho!!!

Lawrence probably would have been as fast as both of them

RC the GOAT , JS7 second !

We're all 40 somethings now... but... lolwtf. Is what it is

Súper cross

Look back now... no of use question'd the P.E.D.'S...

Real rider came out in the mud that will never happen again

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15:10 Hell of a save

No one ever picked up on the ... games on james..

Okay i dont know shit about motocross but is Carmichael like the Rossi on dirt?

Je viens de regarder et dans le «motorcycle hall of fame » David vuillemin et Sébastien tortelli n’y sont pas dans la liste,je ne comprends pas pourquoi ? Mais par contre steve MC queen lui y est,quelle titre a t’il remporté ? C’est bizarre je trouve

Good days when I watched supercross

Was this not 2006?

When racing was nail biting.

Alessi was on another level this outdoor season. Bangin bars up there with RC & JS!

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Classic race 👍

Those bikes sure sounded great

motocross Eminem and 50 cent

Legends

Car Michael is the best

Fitness or PEDs?

Have you ever heard of Bob Hurricane Hannah ohhh yeaaa

Trudo koy in it

Yeeeea boy😊

This sport is soooooo underrated

To many commercials

GET THE 4 STROKES OUT OF MOTOCROSS THEY SOUND SICK.

It was nearly always Stewart against RC and anyone else trying so desperately hard to take him out of the race, not just compete.

I know for sure, RC would have been a champion in 2008).

Very sad watching this and knowing Stewart was on PEDs (adderall) while racing. No wonder he didn't get tired

Carmichael hunting Stewart down and just leaving him in the dust is priceless, yeah Stewart wins a few races,but never As many as Carmichael

At the end it to me seemed like he purposely pulled too hard on the front brake, since he never did that through all the other laps. And gave it to Stewart. There is no way with his expertise that he would make that mistake. I just wonder how much he was paid to do so.

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Stewart and Carmichael are the two 🐐 GOAT!!

Grew up in this era of racing and it was truly a sweet time to be a kid loving motorcycles. I’m 35 now, still love it like I did when I was young, now I share it with my kids.

thank you! Love good ole jimmy 👍