short only did 2 laps?

8/28/2010 6:08am Edited Date/Time 1/25/2012 2:12pm
anyone got word on shorty? didnt go down did he?
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8/28/2010 6:14am
anyone got word on shorty? didnt go down did he?
Matt#49 wrote:
mechanical
Thats two more laps than Josh Grant did.....did I miss a memo on him?
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8/28/2010 8:59am
From RX Tweet:

Andrew Short did not make fast 40 due to bike problems! As a seeded rider he goes to the gate last!
8/28/2010 9:01am
I bet he went back to the pits and cussed everyone out....
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8/28/2010 9:08am
Fair/unfair?

Get on the gate when you don't make the top 40, regardless of why. IF this was a moto and he had a mechanical, he wouldn't automatically get points because he was in the top 10 point standings.
8/28/2010 9:56am
I think you need something like this for this reason alone, a mechanical in practice.

Look, it makes sense. Hes #2 right now in the points. He didnt go down, he didnt blow off the practice. A mechanical is the one thing where in this case, he should be given a provisional. If he was in 10th, yes. If he was in 20th, yes. 20th back, no. You have to have some place as a cutoff.

But this is intelligent managment of a series. Something outside a riders control in practice, given where he is at. yes, he should get a gate. he HAS earned it.

is it preferencial treatment, absolutely. treatment he has earned when everything on the planet lines up against you in a 20 minute window. It does make sense though. Is it something he relied on, no.

makes sense in this case and I say well done for having the balls and knowing you're going to take heat from the forum masses (some of them) for doing it.
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8/28/2010 10:07am
For me personally, everyone should held to the same standard when it comes to qualifying.
This is a race, and I don't care if you are #2 in the points or #40.

This earning special treatment stuff makes no sense what so ever. Guys like Short already have the best equipment, fantastic team support, and now we are to believe that it's fair to give them a free pass?

I like Short, but these rules that favor the OEMs are wrong.
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8/28/2010 10:14am
Didn't they say his probs were in 1st practice and he just wasn't fast enough in 2nd practice due to track being rougher? That's a little shitty if so, MXDN rider shouldn't miss qualifying because the track is rougher.
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8/28/2010 11:44am
Exactly. His mechanical didn't prevent him from trying to qualify.

I hate the provisional rule. I see the point of it, but still don't agree with it.
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8/28/2010 12:35pm
Josh Grant crashed and injured his shoulder. He'll get an MRI on Monday.

Shorty had a mechanical in the first practice, and that was the fast one (while it was still a freeway). Unfortunately, his provisional didn't help out all that much. He had last gate pick, started near last, worked his way through the pack, and then DNF'd just like Metcalfe.

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