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8/28/2013 6:45pm
8/28/2013 6:45pm
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8/30/2013 12:09pm
Is it me or are more riders going off the track, pinning it wide open and then getting back on?
Twice this season I was almost taken out while shooting photos. The AC incident at Unadilla and at Southwick when Brady Kiesel got off track after the finish line and gassed it down the whole infield area next to Henry highway before getting back on the track.
If I had these 2 experiences at the 3 nationals I shot, I'm sure Guy B or Cox must have experienced it as well.
Just my 2 cents.
Twice this season I was almost taken out while shooting photos. The AC incident at Unadilla and at Southwick when Brady Kiesel got off track after the finish line and gassed it down the whole infield area next to Henry highway before getting back on the track.
If I had these 2 experiences at the 3 nationals I shot, I'm sure Guy B or Cox must have experienced it as well.
Just my 2 cents.
The Shop
Also Baggett setting up Roczen for the pass last week, cut a piece of track on the inside. Was clearly intentional to cut it.
MotoGP and Road Racing have the same problems riders push and go off track and have to rejoin often in corners that represent a short cut and hence create an advantage.
Car Racing - F1 - Touring etc have the same probelm going off track and re joining.
It seems the standard rule for all is you are not allowed to make up a place and if you do you have to give it back - And that is it !
Running off track is part of racing close to the edge ! Surely we do not want to change that ?
The new Acerbis markers are safer. See many tuff blocks are dangerous threads.
I think the Acerbis markers are a good solution - Rider safety is more important than staying on track - On the edge battles are better than the slower colouring between the lines idea.
All that is needed is consistent application of the do not make up a place by going off track rule ! ( ie do not re enter the track 1 or many places ahead of the place you where in when you left the track - Can be same position ) Easy Safe and good for racing and same as all motor sport .
1. From what I've read there has been fines this year for cutting the track. A few hundred dollars is nothing for the top guys. I do not know the rules, and hopefully the fines are different for the amateurs, or it would be really unfair.
Raise the fines, and do them on a % of the riders salary.
2. A stop and go booth. Depending on how severe the incident, you have to stand still longer. This penalty is equal to all, and everybody feels it.
3. Put up soft/folding banners to block zones. if you cross them and dont exit the zone where you entered, you are out of the race.
It's all about getting in there making money and getting in and out as fast as they can...
The rule use to be you go off the track you had to go back and enter where you left the track.
and if they didn't they would be one lap down.
The riders tried to do every thing they could to stay in the track boundaries they knew what the results would be?
A crash, snow fencing in there wheel or lap down if they didn't re enter the track where they went off.
you didn't see pin it and grab another gear and get back on the track
Look at Alessi and the other riders they went right threw that banner right??? LOL WRONG...
If that would have be snow fenced in they would have had to shut off or crashed and he would not be wide open off the side of the track and re entering in 8th place....
Plus Miss know it all there is a diffrents between streching a snow fence a round both sides of the whole track and cost a lot more than putting a little yellow marker that you can run over and cut inside of at will .
snow fencing has been race proven and it works! little yellow markers obviously aren't working other wise
we wouldn't be talking about it Rookie......
Pit Row
look at the picture of the start at the top of the page a few banners you're dad would've had that whole corner in closed in...
Sondra you know that the whole track use to be in closed in by snow fencing! and hay bayles and there was no cutting the inside of coners or going around jumps
so do you think it would have cost your family the same in man power and materials to put up little yellow marker up as it would have to snow fence the whole track ??
I think the decorations at the Nationals are good, track cutting has nothing to do with how the course is marked, it has to do with not enforcing the rules, period. Dock a dude and no one else will do it =)
oh and PS those little yellow markers cost a grip too !
I Believe you about it's hard to find snow fencing. but the point is they ride as far as they can to the edge of the track and if they go off oh well pin it and get back on where ever they want to'.....
with the whole track in closed by banners snow fencing what ever. it would make them stop a lot of this cutting corner and going round jumps and with being put down one lap not positions .... a lot of rules where made by your dad and they should still stick with them...
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