272: T-Bone for You

This pretty much sums-up the climax of last night's AMA Supercross in Atlanta:
The airbags got set off. :)

Last night's race was definitely a good one and plenty exciting with 1st and 2nd place going at it.
Basically, it came down to a familiar scene with Stewart in 1st, Reed in 2nd, and Reed basically putting his bike in front of Stewart's, expecting Stewart to check himself up and allow Reed to take the lead over.
Problem with that is Stewart was having none of it and basically said, "Screw that shit."
I imagine Stewart expected another move like Reed did early in the Main Event, where Reed put a semi-block on Stewart but still allowed room for Stewart to go by since Stewart was already moving at a good clip.
The second time, however, there was no room.
So, when Reed did his move, Stewart simply plowed into him.

Right now, on the Supercross message boards, the vocal Internet users are going back and forth with their I'm-the-one-who's-right opinions on what happened.
In my opinion, it's just another case of two riders who don't like each other when going for the win, even if they end up on the ground.
After all is said and done, I'm glad neither is hurt (as far as I know, anyway) because it sucks when one of the top riders (or two) are suddenly out with injuries.
Like everybody else, I'm wondering what the next run-in between those two will bring.

I also read a thread about how some feel the guy who ended-up winning, Ryan Villopoto, was smug during the TV broadcast post-race interview, where instead of admitting the win was handed to him, he basically made it sound like some big plan of his played-out as he'd intended it to.
He basically said that the guy who's the smartest wins, and that seemed to insinuate he was hanging back in 3rd place and having a hunch something like this would take place, not being back in 3rd because he was simply outridden by 1st and 2nd place and couldn't gain on them.

Well, my take on that is, yeah, he was outridden, couldn't gain on the front two, and by the last few laps was realizing that he was gonna' get 3rd unless something happened out front.
When I watched the interview and didn't hear him say that he was basically given the win (like will often happen in that case), I felt not that he was acting smug, but basically not wanting to admit he lucked into the win.
He basically wanted to see the positive and ignore the negative, even though both are real and go hand-in-hand.
Maybe he's a New Ager. :)

Next weekend is the Daytona Supercross, an outdoor Supercross track that has a big reputation for being physically grueling because the laps are so long and the track gets rough.

In other motorcycling-on-TV news, today marks the first World Superbike race of the season, and that race is on Speed TV later today.
Also, the Daytona 200 is happening a week from this coming Saturday.
Thank God we're finally upon the motorcycle racing season - now, I have more reasons to watch some TV on the weekends. ;)

-John