An absolute beast of a rider. Perfect style with the best throttle control ever on all surfaces. No one carried momentum like Seb. A far more aggressiveDavid Bailey style .Sadly mechanicals and injuries robbed him of so much more US success. Hands down the fastest 2 stroker alongside bubba on 125cc to have put leg over a bike.
One of my hero !! Saw so many of his races... battling with the best riders ! Missing those moments, definitely one of the greatest . Also I learned a lot through his motoverte riding school vhs ;)
Massimo from Italy. Absolutely amazing ! Those were the years when the drivers were really fast! The bikes were great and the tracks were for real men! Seeing today's motocross I feel a great sadness! The first track of the video is the Baldasserona in S. Marino a few kilometers from my house!
No. I couldn't count how many times Ricky passed Sebastian on the track, easily. On the very rare occasion Sebastian got Ricky, Ricky didn't put up a fight in order to get the overall.
He was great, Ferrandis is a hell of a rider though and with similar profile, attutude and natural talent... we will see what he does moving up to 450s
@@jaysmokey idk he kinda looked like he was on rails in the 450 class, wrapped up the 450 outdoor mx championship with one race left. But if u think he struggled to win the championship with more than one race left in the series, then I agree!
Tortelli was very fast indeed,pushed Everts on more occasions.. But don't forget pourcel.. he was paralyzed from the waist down, had a half stomach and still won championships.. If cairolli didn't ran over this man's head he probably was the champ that year in mxgp to. He was faster then cairolli.. J.m bayle, tortelli, pichon,vuilleman, pourcel, ferrandis.. All had/have a great style.. I like the style of musquin to.
Pourcel was never faster than Cairoli, won 2006 MX2 thanks to consistency only, h2h he was getting battered. And when Cairoli did ran over his head? Christophe was very talented and certainly up there with Tortelli as arguably the best, fastest frenchman ever.
I honestly dont know a whole lot about him. Its definitely impressive that he won in the dirt and on the street. I think JMB's results are better than Tortelli, but nobody has ever dethroned Stefan Everts and could run down the GOAT (Carmichael). Thats why I believe Tortelli was the fastest frenchman.
Jmb was better, tortelli never won an ama championship, everts should of won in 98, he's lost his silencer in 1 gp and was disqualied, if that hadn't have happened everts would of been 250 champion in 1998, that would of only left tortelli 2 World 125 championships. Fast yes incredibly, but crashed way to much to be the best
1:Sebastien tortelli(France)/3:Frédéric Vialle(France)/4:luigi Seguy(France)/6:Stéphane Roncada((France) //Frédéric Vialle est le papa de Tom Vialle le champion du monde MX2 de cette année (les chiens 🐕 ne font pas des chats 🐈) VIVE LA FRANCE 🇫🇷
@@MrRacer7111 that's not the point of your original comment...with or without Carmichael he had too many injuries and mechanical issues/bad luck. It wouldn't have been an easy walk. Respect to both of them!
I am a big fan of Seb Tortelli. In my book he had the best riding style for a 250 twostroke. Better style than Everts (yes, better style), better style than Carmichael. The thing is Carmichael never throws in the towel (Everts did if you can put him unter pressure.) and Ricky always did what he had to do to win. But Tortelli would have at least won 1 AMA 250 outdoor if not for just blunt bad luck.
After watching some of his crashes. A lot of it seemed to be a technique issue and and bike setup. He was weighting the front of the bike at the worst possible times.
