Courtney Duncan WMX at Hangtown Qualifies 1st on a YZ 125

[eprovenzano]

Well done Charles, keep her on your radar as you never know what the future holds...   

[citabjockey]

A bystander video just showed up:

[Coop]

Impressive!

[Stusmoke]

Just read through this thread now and HAH! eat a d*** big four the only two stroke on teh field buried you in two stroke fumes and roost.

My concern is though, the extraordinary amount of ammunition this will give to the AMA and by extension the big four to say that DD is fair.

[TMKIWI]

That video is about 1.10 min too long.

[Stusmoke]

That video is about 1.10 min too long.

Damn straight. First 10 odd seconds is what MX should sound like.

I wanna see this girl on a YZ250 or 250SX in hte mens nationals. Badly.

[_X_]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

[TMKIWI]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

You may be right x, BUT there is no way a 125 is as fast as a 250F these days.
The other thing is how hard was she really trying?. You are not going to risk a crash when you have it over your competition and are that far in the lead.
She beat all the men in her first ever big bike race only a few months ago.
Left everyone shocked.
Josh Coppins says she can make a main and at this stage I would have to believe him.

[Stusmoke]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

You may be right x, BUT there is no way a 125 is as fast as a 250F these days.
The other thing is how hard was she really trying?. You are not going to risk a crash when you have it over your competition and are that far in the lead.
She beat all the men in her first ever big bike race only a few months ago.
Left everyone shocked.
Josh Coppins says she can make a main and at this stage I would have to believe him.

I dunno who Josh Coppins is but I agree. I want to see it happen. She just walked all over those foopers on a machine half the displacement. Not only a HP and torque disadvantage, but harder to ride. I don't know about the rest of the track but that big hill is a place where a 250Fs power would come in right handy. Yet she still had a solid 5 second lead at least.

Talent much much?

[bearorso]

A short vid from Hangtown that shows more of her:



Lets hope that the other women now step up, and try to match her - JP and others have been either cruising for a few years, or they have reached their personal best. Tara Geiger and a couple of others, were in Spain for the Enduro X, but she / they would not come close to Courtney.

I do hope she is not ignored for being less than a 'glamour girl' - I've long thought, that besides the stagnant level of WMX talent in the US, Ashley Fiolek got a lot more attention and backing because many males would think she was 'cute'. JP , I think, suffers from the 'non glamour girl' syndrome, I believe. I don't give a flying f*** about that sort of thing in the athletes I admire ( though I like a good perv like most blokes), and I've never been more impressed by AF's genuinely great accomplishments by her being being deaf.

  Stusmoke - you're an OZ bloke, aren't you? And you haven't heard of Josh Coppins? If you follow MX - well, at least a tiny bit of the GPs and OZ MX, you would have heard of him. Hey, I'm the first bloke to put my hand up and say I don't very closely follow OZ MX / MXers, until they get to hell out of here, to go for other, bigger things, but if you are an Aussie - or one of those 'orrible Kiwis', his name has been thrown around for years. Strewth, I think even the mainly inward looking Americans, may have heard of him............

As for your comment :   "My concern is though, the extraordinary amount of ammunition this will give to the AMA and by extension the big four to say that DD is fair."   I too. share this same concern.

She'll have to race back here in the Antipodes, the be allowed to race a 250 2t, against 250 4ts - though, I think Loretta Lynn's allows equivalency? - She'll be on a 250F though, if she goes to a 250 - it's how it goes. Though, I'd love to be wrong on that.

[Stusmoke]

I hardly follow MX or SX at all and when I do its american. I'd love to get pay TV to watch all of it, or at least some of it but thats not really an option. Until such time though, I have to make do with quick google searches and what I read on here 

[rlaj1004]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

When does the WMX race during the day, before, during, after the mens?? I was comparing her lap times (which I have to quote someones post here at 2:15 cus direct/fuel/nbc coverage SUCKS) but she would have been running somewhere between 20-30 in the race. I am curious is she qualified on the smooth freeway track like Tomac did at 1:57.
 

[Shawn36]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

When does the WMX race during the day, before, during, after the mens?? I was comparing her lap times (which I have to quote someones post here at 2:15 cus direct/fuel/nbc coverage SUCKS) but she would have been running somewhere between 20-30 in the race. I am curious is she qualified on the smooth freeway track like Tomac did at 1:57.

http://www.americanmotocrossresults.com/live/archives/mx/2013/index.html?EventID=M1305

The women qualify first and their motos are between the men's during the day program.  So yes she qualified on a glass smooth track at Hangtown and during their races she rode on the same rough track.  In order to qualify for the 250 gate without running a consi your lap had to be under a 2:08.7.  Courtney qualified in WMX with a 2:13.5, and like I said she did that before there were any laps turned in anger by the pros.  In her second qualifying session after the track was beat up from the pros she put in a 2:19. 

During the motos the top 250 guys were running 2:05s, Duncan was running 2:21-2:24 with a fastest single lap of 2:19.  Those lap times during the moto would have put her next to the last guy still making laps during the race. 

This is certainly not to put her down, just putting real numbers out there. 

[_X_]

i like women that have a little meat on their bones...very nice.

[rlaj1004]

she would only be sixtysixth fastest at the ama 250 national. but she may produce some killer child bearing hips as a result of riding her two-stroke.

When does the WMX race during the day, before, during, after the mens?? I was comparing her lap times (which I have to quote someones post here at 2:15 cus direct/fuel/nbc coverage SUCKS) but she would have been running somewhere between 20-30 in the race. I am curious is she qualified on the smooth freeway track like Tomac did at 1:57.

http://www.americanmotocrossresults.com/live/archives/mx/2013/index.html?EventID=M1305

The women qualify first and their motos are between the men's during the day program.  So yes she qualified on a glass smooth track at Hangtown and during their races she rode on the same rough track.  In order to qualify for the 250 gate without running a consi your lap had to be under a 2:08.7.  Courtney qualified in WMX with a 2:13.5, and like I said she did that before there were any laps turned in anger by the pros.  In her second qualifying session after the track was beat up from the pros she put in a 2:19. 

During the motos the top 250 guys were running 2:05s, Duncan was running 2:21-2:24 with a fastest single lap of 2:19.  Those lap times during the moto would have put her next to the last guy still making laps during the race. 

This is certainly not to put her down, just putting real numbers out there.

Yeah, I have to wonder how fast she can really be. She is on a basically stock YZ, even has a dent in the pipe. You know no pro out there would run that and no one was pushing her at all. Hate to even hear she is moving to a F in 4S, but if Yamaha has her tied up they will want her on one.
Its up to TSM to show up the 450's