Stewart was so fun too watch. When he came into the big class RC worked his butt off to have the speed that JS had. If JS was more patient sometimes he would have had the most wins period. It was always fun watching these to race and if you could bring them back to today at their speed then I don’t really think anyone would touch them still.
We're all sayin it but these were the best most exciting days of moto for me. Too bad the younger generations will never know unless they watch all these races from years ago. I'll never forget these guys
@2:48 is one of my favorite SX passes of all time. It just is........there are probably better ones but DAMN, J Stew was hang that rear tire a bit off the track over the bales as he scrubbed that!!! Love it!!
James Stewart went over that tough block like it was a little sponge. Amazing Amazing rider . Thanks for the memories. I raced in Orlando(use to be bithlo)MX when i was 15&16 on Saturday nights in 1997 and 1998 and heard about James Stewart racing when he was young( had no idea he would be this good) and Dade City was his home track. I never seen him in person till this 2007 race and he was batteling Rickey Carmichael. WOW is all I can say . America is such a cool country !!!!!!!........
They rode with such passion then... And Stew easily had the best style of all time! To this day, nobody can throw a scrub like he did. So glad I got to watch him race at Steel city as a kid.
Yeah...I'll never forget...my dad brought me to the Budds Creek pro national in 1995 where Doug Henry broke his back...and I remember everyone in the entire industry WROTE HIM OFF & I never expected to see him again...then, my dad & a few other guys I raced with were at the Hangtown Classic in 1997 & we were near the Yamaha Semi, and all of a sudden I heard what sounded like a Harley Davidson with no muffler on it start up...and out of the back of the semi truck rolls a Race Bike that looked like a '97 Yamaha YZ250 (but had the Major Color White/Secondary Color Red color scheme of Yamaha YZ from 1985-1991...) & out walks a racer, he turned around and I see a big white #20 and the name "HENRY" in bold white letters over it on the back of his blue Fox Chest protector & I said to my dad "That's the guy that flew like 100 feet at Budds Creek 2 years ago and broke his back!!" and my dad just gave me this look like "What the hell is wrong with you, are you that dumb?!?" & said "Motocross Racers don't return after breaking their backs, especially not to a pro level in under 2 years..." and I pointed and my dad saw "Henry" and my dad asked, um don't remember if it was Brian Berry (John Dowd's Mechanic), Mike Gosselar (Ezra Lusk's mechanic) or Alley Semar (Kevin Windham's mechanic) or the Yamaha Factory Team Manager but my dad said "Is that the guy that broke his back at Budds Creek in '95?!? and he said "Um...Yah...that's the guy!!" and my dad said "So Yamaha made a total gamble on him & offered him a contract having no idea weather it was going to be realistic for him to return to pro racing on the level of these other kids whom haven't broken their backs like oh say Kevin Windham not he was going to be competitive or not?!? and the mechanic said "see that one-off monster he's riding...that's an even bigger gamble than offering a guy who might not be able to feel his legs by lap 5...we still have no idea whether or not that thing's going to be even REMOTELY realistic in ANY way...so yah...Yamaha was willing to take a few gambles..."
@@public_risk Yep. Nothing like those Stewart, Reed, RC battles... I'm still an avid fan of the sport and I do think we have some phenomenal talent these days, but nothing compares to what we saw with those 3.
When my daughters were toddlers, I bought them pyjamas. One was of Ricky Carmichael( the eldest) and the other was of James Stewart ( the youngest), both in factory colors with number. Fortunately, I didn't have a third kid; I don't think I could have put them in a Reed kit. That dude was just born at the wrong time having to race RC and JS. Those were the days!
Just came back to see what the coverage looked like back when things were really moving forward in super cross. The TV coverage, camera angles, everything was so good compared to today. Not sure what’s happened there.
Tammy Holt Barcia whips the bike, he doesnt scrub because his height is almost identical to his regular jumps. It looks nice, thats all. He gets a lot of movement and flare but it isn't very practical. James does it to "scrub" speed off and lower his trajectory to land quicker.
or David Bailey, Johnny O'Mara & Rick Johnson (Who were all Team Honda teammates & RJ was the first of only 2 racers in history of the sport to win both the 250cc & 500cc titles in the same season...the other was Jean Michel Bayle)
Today’s riders need to see the corner speed and the speed in the whoops……… CR is still a top 15 rider in today’s game…… extremely fast in his own right ……… but smoked on this night ……… I’d take RC, JS, CR, and RV at their best vs today’s field.
Corners look a lot faster in 144p, if you think current riders with better view, better suspension, better trainers, and better understanding of human physiology aren’t faster, you’re the braindead ape that got left behind
I was there and was drunk as pirate during a hurricane and remember the whole race and could barley talk the next day from yelling so much when RC and JS were batteling. What a night . And then went and watched RC race race cars at New Smyrna Speed Way the next night . That was the good old days:) I was drunk as pirate that night too ;)
Chad siempre fue un piloto con "mala leche" no se aguantaba ver ganador al grande Bubba Stewart! James siempre será su papá! Chad sos una pala persona así como piloto!
I bet in 2020 we would watch "battle for 7h", some instagram feed about "seven deuce deuce" or listen to Daniel talking non sense when Stewart was making a pass on Ricky
Crazy theogony replicated this track last night, probably different dirt which changes thing, but when the track is fresh either gives you an idea of these 3 in their prime vs KR94, CW2 and tomac (another bad race for him last nigh)
Bruh Ricky Reed and Stewart have had some ferocious passes during there years, the block passes these guys do now is childs play compared to what they did back then
This happens to EVERY superstar in Supercross.... I was watching when Ricky did it to Jeremy McGrath...except Jeremy McGrath had no plans to retire, this is Carmichael's final race....
Dont like how they would pan off james on the screen until he forced himself in the screen and kicked everyones a**!. Stewart the fastest man on the planet! Miss ya man!
the orange bowl is an open ended stadium like sam boyd, but they never use the parking lot like they do in vegas. plus, the place is narrow as all hell, and FL has no good dirt. translation - they dont race there anymore. they used to do jacksonville, tampa, daytona, orlando all in one year and now its just daytona.
James....what happened to this rider im seeing in this video????u should be dominating right now!!the 2 ryan's are fast,but there not carmichael fast.u smoked the G.O.A.T!
This was the peak of our sport. It'll be a long time before we see 3 legends battling again
100% correct!!!
And then there was this season with ferrandis roczen tomac barcia with others going at it every single round in the outdoors 😂🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽😍😍😍😍😍😍
Yup just a couple more months!
@@Negern91 imo theres a diff between superstars and legends Eli is on par
Give it another 2 yrs we’ll be good but ur right these were the best times of our sport
Single WORST place to STOP a video ... EVER
Movie
Chris Mcintyre, well... There's a SECOND part playing right after...🤔
Stewart was so fun too watch. When he came into the big class RC worked his butt off to have the speed that JS had. If JS was more patient sometimes he would have had the most wins period. It was always fun watching these to race and if you could bring them back to today at their speed then I don’t really think anyone would touch them still.
We're all sayin it but these were the best most exciting days of moto for me. Too bad the younger generations will never know unless they watch all these races from years ago. I'll never forget these guys
This was prime james Stewart, my favorite rider, loved the battles between these three
Back when he used PeD
@@ymgmcdouble9579 stop hating bro
You mean these two. Reed never really had anything for Stewart or Carmichael
@2:48 is one of my favorite SX passes of all time. It just is........there are probably better ones but DAMN, J Stew was hang that rear tire a bit off the track over the bales as he scrubbed that!!! Love it!!
James Stewart went over that tough block like it was a little sponge. Amazing Amazing rider . Thanks for the memories. I raced in Orlando(use to be bithlo)MX when i was 15&16 on Saturday nights in 1997 and 1998 and heard about James Stewart racing when he was young( had no idea he would be this good) and Dade City was his home track. I never seen him in person till this 2007 race and he was batteling Rickey Carmichael. WOW is all I can say . America is such a cool country !!!!!!!........
Jeremy McGrath
i wish i had a time machine so i can take a pair of GoProHD2 for james and carmichael... for all those great battles!
try hero 9s
Do you want paradoxes...?
Cause that's how you get paradoxes
No imagine you take modern Ricky Carmichael and Ralph sheheen back in time to this race to announce it now that would be weird
Fuck that take some 4k cameras
This is faster speed they have than Tomac roczen and guys in 2019
100% true!
Well you are comparing the to Carmichael who is the GOAT and Stewart who is top 3 all time so.
Gaming Central don get it twisted. RC was great. but Stewart was faster. and Mcgrath is the goat of sx!
Yup
They rode with such passion then... And Stew easily had the best style of all time! To this day, nobody can throw a scrub like he did. So glad I got to watch him race at Steel city as a kid.
Remember this like it was yesterday. Was my first sx race .. such an awesome bday gift to watch these guys battle it out
Supercross/mx just isn't the same anymore
Yeah...I'll never forget...my dad brought me to the Budds Creek pro national in 1995 where Doug Henry broke his back...and I remember everyone in the entire industry WROTE HIM OFF & I never expected to see him again...then, my dad & a few other guys I raced with were at the Hangtown Classic in 1997 & we were near the Yamaha Semi, and all of a sudden I heard what sounded like a Harley Davidson with no muffler on it start up...and out of the back of the semi truck rolls a Race Bike that looked like a '97 Yamaha YZ250 (but had the Major Color White/Secondary Color Red color scheme of Yamaha YZ from 1985-1991...) & out walks a racer, he turned around and I see a big white #20 and the name "HENRY" in bold white letters over it on the back of his blue Fox Chest protector & I said to my dad "That's the guy that flew like 100 feet at Budds Creek 2 years ago and broke his back!!" and my dad just gave me this look like "What the hell is wrong with you, are you that dumb?!?" & said "Motocross Racers don't return after breaking their backs, especially not to a pro level in under 2 years..." and I pointed and my dad saw "Henry" and my dad asked, um don't remember if it was Brian Berry (John Dowd's Mechanic), Mike Gosselar (Ezra Lusk's mechanic) or Alley Semar (Kevin Windham's mechanic) or the Yamaha Factory Team Manager but my dad said "Is that the guy that broke his back at Budds Creek in '95?!? and he said "Um...Yah...that's the guy!!" and my dad said "So Yamaha made a total gamble on him & offered him a contract having no idea weather it was going to be realistic for him to return to pro racing on the level of these other kids whom haven't broken their backs like oh say Kevin Windham not he was going to be competitive or not?!? and the mechanic said "see that one-off monster he's riding...that's an even bigger gamble than offering a guy who might not be able to feel his legs by lap 5...we still have no idea whether or not that thing's going to be even REMOTELY realistic in ANY way...so yah...Yamaha was willing to take a few gambles..."
It will always be the best motorsport to watch tho
I agree. Ever since JS7 left, doesn’t even spark my interest anymore
@@public_risk Yep. Nothing like those Stewart, Reed, RC battles... I'm still an avid fan of the sport and I do think we have some phenomenal talent these days, but nothing compares to what we saw with those 3.
ΣLECTЯ0N That’s an awesome story. Cheers mate👍🏻
When my daughters were toddlers, I bought them pyjamas. One was of Ricky Carmichael( the eldest) and the other was of James Stewart ( the youngest), both in factory colors with number. Fortunately, I didn't have a third kid; I don't think I could have put them in a Reed kit. That dude was just born at the wrong time having to race RC and JS. Those were the days!
Still love watching supercross today.... but man these were the good ol days...
Just came back to see what the coverage looked like back when things were really moving forward in super cross. The TV coverage, camera angles, everything was so good compared to today. Not sure what’s happened there.
@ 2:50 was the sickest scrub ive ever seen
if u want to see the sickest scrubber of late check out Justin Barcia Insane he almost can get his rear end in front of his forks!!!!
can you share me some link of bam bam's scrub. thx
Tammy Holt Barcia whips the bike, he doesnt scrub because his height is almost identical to his regular jumps. It looks nice, thats all. He gets a lot of movement and flare but it isn't very practical. James does it to "scrub" speed off and lower his trajectory to land quicker.
@@tammyholt1065 bam bam sucks
“Ricky knows the number seven is back there and coming hard”😂😂
Talent wise... no better 3 riders have ever competed at the same time while also riding in their prime.
how about Jeremy McGrath, Jeff Emig & Doug Henry?!?
or David Bailey, Johnny O'Mara & Rick Johnson (Who were all Team Honda teammates & RJ was the first of only 2 racers in history of the sport to win both the 250cc & 500cc titles in the same season...the other was Jean Michel Bayle)
Bucks -
How about Roger DeCoster, Pierre Karsmakers, & Heikki Mikkola?
You are correct. Those older era riders of course talented but nothing like these guys.
Rick Johnson, David Bailey, & Jeff Ward.
Marty Smith, Jimmy Weinert, & Pierre Karsmakers.
Two best ever riders
1:00 Ricky laying that pass on
My first supercross when I was a kid, one year after this. I was heartbroken to find out Carmichael was retired. Stewart still put on a show though :)
What the!!!!i watched it all to miss the ending!!!!
Wow I dunno if the bikes are better but they look faster today
THE
BEST
ERA
The goats so fast
Absolutely insane that Reed is still racing in 2019
Today’s riders need to see the corner speed and the speed in the whoops……… CR is still a top 15 rider in today’s game…… extremely fast in his own right ……… but smoked on this night ……… I’d take RC, JS, CR, and RV at their best vs today’s field.
I 2nd that
I 3rd that
Well obviously. Back then wins mattered a lot more. Now riders are happy not getting a win all year they’re only concerned with points. It’s lame.
Corners look a lot faster in 144p, if you think current riders with better view, better suspension, better trainers, and better understanding of human physiology aren’t faster, you’re the braindead ape that got left behind
Minus Chad Reed lol
Chad wanted to race up front with them so bad he would practically cry during the podium interview while making excuses
Yet they both won 2 SX titles.
I was at that race and those two were on a different level. They walked away from the field.
Yes the goat is the fastest an most consistent
They are soooooo good
I was there that night
tom 225 same here!
I didn't see you.
tom 225-
Didn't see you, Tom. I would remember.
I was there and was drunk as pirate during a hurricane and remember the whole race and could barley talk the next day from yelling so much when RC and JS were batteling. What a night . And then went and watched RC race race cars at New Smyrna Speed Way the next night . That was the good old days:) I was drunk as pirate that night too ;)
@@michaelburney2640 -
I do remember seeing you both nights. that was a lot of fun. Are you still seeing the same guy?
How would Jeff ward an rick Johnson compare to these guys?
CR22 baby!!
These are the best rider AMA has ever gotn.these 3 are on a diffrent level then the rest.why is that.
Chad siempre fue un piloto con "mala leche" no se aguantaba ver ganador al grande Bubba Stewart! James siempre será su papá! Chad sos una pala persona así como piloto!
Cool upload : D
I bet in 2020 we would watch "battle for 7h", some instagram feed about "seven deuce deuce" or listen to Daniel talking non sense when Stewart was making a pass on Ricky
They left reed in the dust
Damn I miss art eckman!!
Crazy theogony replicated this track last night, probably different dirt which changes thing, but when the track is fresh either gives you an idea of these 3 in their prime vs KR94, CW2 and tomac (another bad race for him last nigh)
Ricky has class.
22 chad reed my fav
Look at those clean passes. Real racing. Hate all the stupid takeout maneuvers they call block passing these days.
Bruh Ricky Reed and Stewart have had some ferocious passes during there years, the block passes these guys do now is childs play compared to what they did back then
This happens to EVERY superstar in Supercross.... I was watching when Ricky did it to Jeremy McGrath...except Jeremy McGrath had no plans to retire, this is Carmichael's final race....
IMaDEM0N too bad emig did it to mcgrath not Carmichael. (Sorry I'm 5 years late to this video)
Dont like how they would pan off james on the screen until he forced himself in the screen and kicked everyones a**!. Stewart the fastest man on the planet! Miss ya man!
Hvac sales1 racist ass association guy, look at the adderall bullshit
sunglasses in the night? huh?
the orange bowl is an open ended stadium like sam boyd, but they never use the parking lot like they do in vegas. plus, the place is narrow as all hell, and FL has no good dirt. translation - they dont race there anymore. they used to do jacksonville, tampa, daytona, orlando all in one year and now its just daytona.
I miss when Suzuki was seen in the top 5
Fearless through the whoops !
nothing was as good as stewart vs carmichael
James....what happened to this rider im seeing in this video????u should be dominating right now!!the 2 ryan's are fast,but there not carmichael fast.u smoked the G.O.A.T!
Fast foward to the last 10 seconds to see the battle :/
Que ultrapassagem foi essa? 2:50
Braba d++
the original battle royale
You would think they blue flagged Reed everytime Rc or Js was behind Him 😂😂😂
Rick the little troll
I was here
i had to take multiple breaks to go and wipe my ass
nutfukkinjob lol Wtf 😂
why post a video and don't show the last lap when they are battling makes zero sense
Wow
reed missed that on purpose
Blain Hawkins was thinkin the same thing
Ricky Mouse.
This is sped up
Hgt 4 te
I hate this video. One the greatest races ever and the ending isn't here.BS!!!!!
he got old?
George Warren really age don't matter I'm 52 I can stick wheel in on anyone
he never smoked the goat. you must be smokin something special.
Manual Hands in reality he really did...Stewart was always the fastest on the track..always. but got taken out by pussy dungey later on.
@@Hugo-py2ce Stewart was faster indoors. Carmichael was faster outdoors.
@@allmotorfg2437 Preach 🙏
As long as I beat chad
Wow wtf how they just gonna cut it off right there? Fucking bs
i wonder why james cant quit smoking pot
this is racing. now days stewart is wrecking reed is lucky to get a top 5 and villopoto is dominating. not much of a battle there
a prime stewart would beat Tomac and Moosecan't now.
Supercross only two matter james and Carmichael.chad reed is mediocre
I hate 4 stroke dirt bikes