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sbarrington314
8/28/2010 6:08am
8/28/2010 6:08am
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1/25/2012 2:12pm
anyone got word on shorty? didnt go down did he?
Andrew Short did not make fast 40 due to bike problems! As a seeded rider he goes to the gate last!
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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.
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.
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.
I hate the provisional rule. I see the point of it, but still don't agree with it.
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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