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Probation not enough for Friese indicates frustrated Craig

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Latest contact costs points-leader chance of Glendale overall.

250SX West points-leader Christian Craig has indicated that probation isn’t enough for Vince Friese following their controversial incident at Glendale’s Triple Crown, which saw the latter receive a six-month probation from AMA race officials.

Craig has been on the receiving end of Friese’s aggression on multiple occasions and, despite being able to climb back to fourth position in race two, this latest contact almost certainly cost him the overall on his way to P2 on Saturday.

However, the Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha’s frustrating with the fast-starting Friese continues to build considering his history over the much of the past decade, which has been cast back into the spotlight since he stepped back to the 250 class with Smartop Bullfrog Spas MCR Honda in 2022.

“I think everybody knows how I feel about that situation – Vince is gonna Vince,” Craig stated. “It’s super-frustrating. I’ve had so many encounters with him and it’s like I’m always on the other side. One year at Monster Cup he cleaned me out and broke my hand, nothing happens. Then this happens, we’re wide open in a sand corner and he comes out of nowhere and we clip ‘bars and I go flying into… I think I almost hit that wall.

“I think something needs to be done, I think it’s dangerous – that should not be done. It’s one thing when he’s faster and he’s trying to pass people, but when someone is trying to pass him, it’s dangerous. He’s cross-jumping people, he’s doing what he did to me tonight, so I’m very sour about it. But, all I did was I shook it off and somehow came back to fourth.

“[It] seems like the only thing stopping me is people cutting me off or taking me out. It happens, it’s racing, got to move on. I was super-heated after that second one… I had AMA in the truck and I’m like, ‘you guys got to do something’. They were just assessing, they assessed the situation and he was back on the line. I don’t know, I’m not AMA – that’s up to them.”

Craig then moved to question the actual ‘penalty’ of being placed on probation: “I feel like probation doesn’t really do anything to riders, so we’ll see. It’s frustrating, but I can’t do anything about it now. It’s done, over with. It’s in AMA’s hands and we’ll see.”

Super Enduro Hungary

2022 SuperEnduro World Championship: results from a wild Rnd 2 in Budapest

  05 February 2022 | SuperEnduro

Results from round two of the 2022 SuperEnduro World Championship in Budapest, Hungary where an intense track created plenty of drama but Billy Bolt remains in charge on the podium ahead of Blazusiak and Walker.

SuperEnduro GP of Hungary, round two in a nutshell:

• Just nine prestige class riders lined up for 2022 SuperEnduro round two and they were met by a fiercely tight and dry track. A 40 seconds lap was intense and it proved a recipe for arm pump with one matrix, rock garden, concrete block or tree-based trials section after another.
• The evening kicked off with the top seven from qualifying shooting hot laps and it was Billy Bolt who took his second Superpole result and another three points in the process.
• The feature races began with a scrappy heat one which was initially red flagged when Taddy Blazusiak and Jonny Walker locked bikes – burning Jonny’s leg in the process.
• On the restart Taddy was the early leader before Bolt took over. Most riders complained of arm pump and Billy was not alone in making mistakes which allowed Taddy through for his first moto win of the season. Bolt was second ahead of Walker who in turn won a scrap for third with Colton Haaker and Cody Webb.
• Race two didn’t let up with the madness and Webb initially lead after the dust settled on the reverse grid start but as Bolt took the lead, Cody crashed and got his leg tangled dramatically in Billy’s back wheel.
• Jonny Walker of old then appeared and turned it into a three-rider fight with Taddy. With Bolt keeping mistakes to a minimum he took the flag first with Taddy just getting the better of Walker third.
• Race three was almost (almost!) a calmer one but Taddy did his best to liven it up with a first turn crash and then a classic crowd-pleasing comeback through the field.
• Bolt was out front and in charge again though and kept things relaxed ahead of another scrap for the podium behind between Haaker, Walker and eventually Blazusiak. Haaker finally made it a Husky one-two and Walker fought off the Polish onslaught for third.
• The overall podium was Bolt, Blazusiak and Walker with Billy now a clear points leader.
• Dominik Olszowy picked right back up where he left the Junior World Championship class at round one with a dominant set of victories. Taddy’s Polish protégé was streets ahead of the field almost lapping everyone in heat one but Suff Sella stole some of the limelight by becoming the first Israeli rider in SuperEnduro history to win a race but he was later penalised 10 seconds, allowing Olszowy another perfect result.
• Sonny Goggia was again in charge of the European class taking comfortable wins in both the Budapest races ahead of Aurelien Adesso with local boy Roland Liske keeping the Hungarian

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