Evidently Dungey has been the KTM test rider for the new bike for MX since the beginning of the year and he loves the bike for outdoors. He said he did not ride the bike in SX set up or tracks at all so he doesn’t know if it had issues there or not. If he likes the bike, has been riding and training, and gives it a go, he will certainly be top 5 by end of season barring an injury. I’d say top 3 if he races all 12 races.
Add Tomac knee issue where it’s hard to squeeze the bike, and Ferrandis coming back from injury, and that kind of evens things out with Dungeys time off in my mind. AC out, Webb out, AP coming back from injury, Sexton banged up, KR still having long term conditioning issues, Musquin out, Wilson out, things are kind of wide open for a perfectly healthy Dungey who is a tad slower to do very well!