PulpMX Podcast: John Dowd Southwick Post-race

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Steve Matthes

Pulpmx, Professional, Steve Matthes, Supercross, Racerx, Motocross, 051142, Sports & Recreation

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2011

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hurricane Irene threw a monkey wrench of her own into the interview plans but if you're gonna get one at Southwick, it's gotta be Junkyard Dog.

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0:00.0	Junkyard Dog, John Doubt. Great ride today, man. Much, much better than Millville and Unidilla and great day.
0:07.0	Well, it was definitely better than Unidilla. At least I rode today.
0:11.0	I rode after you didn't qualify that John Dowd not qualifying as a world. I don't want to live in.
0:17.0	So I was very depressed for you.
0:19.0	Yeah, it sucked. I thought I put in a pretty good lap or whatever, and it was close, but it just wasn't good enough.
0:24.7	I mean, it's pretty solid out there this year in that class.
0:28.1	I mean, even today I was like 29th or something, you know, here.
0:32.9	And this is like almost like cheating for me kind of, you know so it's just uh you know whatever it was a good
0:38.7	day was nasty out there but i was just trying to just stay up and survive didn't look like you
0:44.0	got good starts uh first model was terrible because i was kind of outside and just got bumped
0:48.6	around but second one wasn't too bad it was a little better but uh not great but you know kind of
0:53.4	kind of tried to just stay stay, I guess, first couple laps and not be too crazy about it. And because I knew it was going to get ugly, especially Second Moto, just, you know, guys dropping and falling and blowing up and whatever, you know. And it looks like you kept your number which is uh which was a relief yeah you know
1:11.5	know and uh that's cool because i wasn't planning on going to steel city or pala he anyways you
1:16.8	know what i mean so if it if it didn't happen it was going to be uh the the end of an error or
1:21.8	something but um yeah it's cool it happened i'm psyched the only thing now is now i gotta
1:26.8	try to do this again next year.
1:29.1	Yeah, no doubt extends your record. Hey, uh, you've raced here a hundred million times.
1:33.4	How was it today track conditions? Um, wise. Have you raced worse? It was pretty bad. I mean, it was gnarly. Like, I don't feel like I was going that good in that second motor.
1:46.0	I was just really just trying to survive.
1:48.0	And, you know, half of the faster guys in me probably just fell or whatever.
1:52.0	But it was nasty, nasty, nasty.
1:54.0	Peg-dragging ruts everywhere.
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