Brandon Semenuk is on a roll. Fresh off a historic win at Rampage, he closed out the competition season by taking victory at the Oregon Trail Rally, beating out his Subaru Motorsports USA teammates Travis Pastrana and Ken Block, who took second and third.
Until now, Semenuk hadn't won a rally race this season, winning stages now and again but never quite securing the overall result. This time around, with codriver John Hall, Semenuk managed to pull ahead on the second of three days of racing, and though he swapped stage wins with Pastrana for the rest of the race, he maintained the lead and eventually won by 23.4 seconds over Pastrana and 49.8 seconds ahead of Block.
The Oregon Trail Rally was the final event of the American Rally Association presented by DirtFish National Championship race season. Pastrana walked away with the season overall title, Block took second, and Semenuk rounded out the top three for his first full rally season.
See the full results
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@sidekicksjn:
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Block is cool. He is one hell of a marketing genius. A WRC level driving skill he is not. WRC loved having him as it instantly spiked their watch numbers. They loved him for the revenue they could generate. Not for his ability to genuinely come out and challenge the greats. You could throw someone like Sainz in a rally car right now, decades removed from his last competitive drive, and he would smoke Block across numerous stages.
I spectate and photograph all levels of American motorsports. It is fantastic to watch. We have some phenomenal talent that could be WRC level but the support is not there. If you wanted circle track/ NASCAR, you can find sponsors. Rally, it is expensive, tough and your car is not the rolling billboard that American businesses need in order to justify the expense.
That said, I do get that the cost of riding rally cars is on another level and maybe there is not really a cheap entry. I can imagine for road car driving people can start with go-karts but I don't know if driving a buggy (which may be the dirt equivalent) really compares to riding a rally car.
I'd be interested to know what Eli and Jeffrey make, all-in, in a year of racing, not that money is everything...
-Hot Shots
Loeb is a monster.
Hope Semenuk has the chance to compete on a WRC event someday.
We are rooting for you Kyle and a full recovery!!!
It’s sad that an incredible human being and athlete sharing the story of his life changing choice he made for the greater good of society is so frowned upon by people. Makes you think twice about how crappy some people really are that they can be so upset by it. The courage Kyle has to share it, is incredible! Think about how his life has changed…. Again, we are rooting for you and a full recovery Kyle!
Look I get not wanting to be exposed to others hard situations but downvoting well wishes for someone who is struggling seems pretty crappy to me.
www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00467-9/fulltext21
The last line says it best; "...the benefit of getting vaccinated outweighs any possible risk."
"The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines."
Further,
"VAERS data do not represent all known safety information for a vaccine and should be interpreted in the context of other scientific information."
As for this "the relevant regulatory bodies, including the US Food and Drug Administration and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency among others, have argued that the observed frequency in vaccinated individuals was no higher than the expected background rate. "
The quote literally goes against the presented data, they are losing. These are also the folks who didn't turn up to the hearing Kyle went and spoke in.
Yes, it's possible that for the individual Kyle, it turned out to be more dangerous to have gotten it. And that sucks, and I would be pissed as hell if I had to experience that, and would want to hold somebody accountable. But, the data seems to consistently show that risks of injuries from contracting COVID, regardless of age group, are statistically greater than from the vaccines. And if the result of him telling this story, and it getting shared all over, is that fewer people get the vaccine, therefor statistically increasing odds of contracting COVID and thus experiencing injuries or health issues, then I think it's hard to argue it isn't harmful to blast that story on a platform such as pinkbike.
Again, this really sucks for Kyle, and there's nothing about the data that helps him or anybody in his position. I really feel for him, and being such a relatable person to the mtb community, made me think. This whole pandemic is about doing what's best for everybody, on average, and unfortunately that means some people, like Kyle, will get the short straw.
If it’s not from a peer reviewed journal I don’t care what you read.
I find it much more convincing when someone goes against the narrative like Peter Doshi did the other day. I also find it healthy to remind myself of this quote in these days of groupthink. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain.
Peter Doshi making a mockery of the entire narrative in 5 minutes - m.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZd6aTCAkM
How is that risk/benefit looking now? I think you could argue the case for these ‘vaccines’ if they immunized against disease but most countries are trending towards higher percentages of the hospitalized who are vaccinated. And how many boosters are you going to take? The spike is cytotoxic so an accumulation of bi-annual doses is madness. At that stage you may as well get the virus, treat it with antivirals or whatever, and have vastly superior, likely lifelong, immunity.
As a medical provider, I recommend the vaccine for all people regardless of their medical history. Many people fail to remember that the earliest COVID vaccinations were specifically targeted at those most at risk.
But hey, you can choose to skip the vaccine and take your chances, I could care less if someone makes that decision, but don’t be surprised if you get really sick.
My wife and I are both medical providers and in the nearly twelve months since vaccinations for COVID started, neither of us we seen serious reactions to the vaccine.
I just got my booster today, shoulder is barely sore, I’ll ride in the morning before work.
Get vaccinated, you don’t wanna be that person who wishes they’d gotten it after it’s already too late. Hindsight is 20/20.
Regardless, the number of hospitalizations appear to be increasing in the UK since August, which I guess is due to seasonality? If you look at the data, every country seems to have a series of waves that seem to be diminishing in size as the vulnerable and elderly are picked off. According to Carl Heneghan (Oxford) this is why we’re currently seeing lower mortality. This makes sense to me as it’s the same elderly demographic who are dying, regardless of ‘vaccine’ status.
Best thing is let the Anti Vaxxers remain so. When they get Covid they can go to the ICU and then risk death 100X more than the rest of us.
Its Darwin's theorem come back for good purpose.
This is the weird thing I’ve noticed amongst the vaccinated. It’s like a cult. If you’re not in our “I trust the science” (as if there is such a thing as ‘the science’j you’re going to go to a sort of COVID hell.
BTW have you got a source for those numbers? They’re even better than Pfizer’s and they’re complete junk.
If you take Italy for example, of the130k people who (supposedly) died from COVID in almost 2 years, only 399 were less than 40 years old, half of which had severe pre existing conditions.
Yeah, I guess I’ll take my chances
That's a very specific claim. Do you have a link to a source for this claim and where the data has been gathered? There have been 142K Covid deaths in the UK alone. 5m deaths globally.
Here it is:
www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-analysis-of-deaths
By the way, ISS is to Italy what the NIH is to the US.
And yes, 5 million deaths worldwide in almost 2 years. To give a proportion, consider that approximately 18 million people die each year of cardiovascular diseases.
Quite a broad, generalized statement there. Most people I know who get labeled as anti-vaxxers are simply advocating for freedom of choice or are simply against these particular vaccines (2 of which aren’t even technically vaccines, are they?), for a number of reasons
Also the medical advice from the governments and their ‘science’ is to get vaccinated after you’ve recovered from the virus which is going against the actual prevailing medical advice. Same goes for vaccinating children. As you know the government went against the prevailing science in recommending that. Tthose two things alone should make people question the narrative.
Not true regarding the advice. Maybe in some places (not that I've seen), but in the UK advice is for everyone to get vaccinated.
Ah so because more people die of something else, covid doesn't matter? Got it.
No, it's not a personal choice, it's a public health issue, so with all due respect f*ck your personal choice. If idiots like anti-vaxxers had their way many millions would also have died of smallpox, measles and other diseases (although the latter is seeing a resurgence thanks to antivax idiots).
All antivaxxers are idiots. No amount of mental gymnastics will change that.
www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2180
Here’s another great video questioning the narrative that people might enjoy - rumble.com/vouyfd-dr-scot-a-youngblood-md-speaking-to-the-san-diego-county-board-of-superviso.html?fbclid=IwAR1DWVSLDoJkkMCN_b-i7QygG7eGTGxyccfeVsSVnO4lynDauJ-12TCeQOs
In any case, you asked for proof to substantiate my claims and I gave it.
Now would you please do the same and explain why having an experimental drug injected into your body is not a matter of personal choice but, as you say, a public health issue?
Is there data showing that vaccinated people do not transmit the infection to others?
Moreover, was there ever a time in recent history when “millions of people” died of measles?
The result of that is that we failed to realize the spike protein itself is cytotoxic.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34696485
There are legitimate concerns around the covid vaccines, no matter what the people on your television tells you.
I took both pfizer and moderna, and luckily only got extremely sick for a week (41 C/106 F fever), but with no lasting negative effects.
Now some countries are banning moderna for young people, and the astra zeneca is already banned most places.
Don't fall for propaganda, make informed decisions.
We had a lot of infections here, and there were quite a few people my age that got severe health issues after recovering from covid, so I assessed the risk for me personally, and decided to get the jab, I probably wouldn't if I got the offer this late.
Edit: most countries had new all time record lows for death rates during this pandemic, was it really bad enough to force experimental drugs on people?
This vaccines didn't see clinical trials that are normally required for all vaccines, due to how "severe the pandemic was".
Lol
It's not like DH racing is the same as ski racing or F1 where it takes 1000s of hours getting your edges in on ice or whatever they do to make them good.
Everyone thought the same thing about Candide before he won a free rider world tour.
"The best thing my daddy ever taught me was, that for every mile of road, THERE's TWO MILES of DITCH!!"
Roads in Europe are not wide as we can see there in Oregon, and have sharp corners with a lot of grips variation.
So we are not speaking about the same type of sport.
Cars are not the same, much smaller, lighter and Acceleration vs Power to Weight Ratio is huge.
Every rally is different, every tarmac streets are different, every gravel in the WRC runs are different. This is why the WRC pilots are in my opinion the BEST in the world
Something similar to Oregon's stages could be Finland www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu8SBZrdoRA
The trickiest stages in the WRC season could be Monte-Carlo www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCRkf8r6Yg
Roughest stages Turkey, Greece, Argentina, Mexico www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkdkKyAB_CU
So I can say that the North Am pro rally league is not to be compared to the WRC
But saying that is also making us arrogant , that's why it would be interesting to compare the performances btw continents
Where's the CEO of this place?, I want equality
I knew brandon was a proper rally driver, but I didn't know he was THIS good
You need to tell yourself, Youtube content dont make you win real sports medals.
Homer voice: "yeah how 'bout that"
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so....
PB can report on Semenuk winning a car race, but not a MTBer testifying on Covid vax outcomes? FFS