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Chuck Sun should of know better and no one cared really as you drop the worst result anyway.
But at least now the US guys know that outside assistance is NOT allowed. A DQ on raceday would be a real bummer, now it means nothing.
Pit Row
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In the US, the AMA got convinced that (at least the most important) teams should be allowed to get personnel by turn 1 to help tangled bikes/fallen riders get back on track, as a safety reason.
Did'nt it start in SX and quickly spread into the outdoors ?
Anyway, this is a no-no in the GP's.
I saw Dave Strijbos get DQ'd once over that at a French GP.
Seen from Europe, the US system seems too flexible and potentially unfair.
You can get help during the race only from the official track crew, in no way from a spectator or team assistant.
Re-entering the track at the spot you left it has also been the rule-of-thumb of the GP's for a long time.
I remember having to explain to the FIM (when we were putting the World SX together, back in the 90's) that we had to modify that particular rule to adopt the AMA rule of "re-entering the track at the safest, closest place from where you left it, and without gaining an advantage out of it" (not exact terms but that's what it meant).
The FIM accepted because they admitted that SX was happening on a tighter environment that MX and that their rule could actually create an un-necessary danger.
But I don't think they ever cared to harmonize the SX rule and the MX rule (like the AMA tends to do).
So, when American riders race a one-off event such as MXDN (I have experience of that also in Bercy), they do get confused with these different rules, especially in the heat of the race.
I'm pretty sure whatever actual different rules do exist between what the US riders are familiar with and those on place at this event have been duly explained by Roger, though !
At least, one can tell that Justin knew what every GP rider knows : DO NOT ride over the green stuff on the outsides of the track. That's why he jumped it, instead !
Now, maybe he was DQ'd for outside assistance because that was the "first" offense that happened, and enough for a DQ.
Or maybe he was DQ'd for both reasons ?
Anyway, it was a "free" lesson this time and I bet Justin learned from today.
Why not just bails and banners to give the rider a chance to get back into the race? Why use some fence that could kill a dude? makes no sense.
AC thing was....he was stuck in some really deep mud and buried himself. Barcia's was a little different I think because he was caught on something man made. Mud is part of the track.......the fence they have there is kind of bullshit.
It is what it is I guess and every rider has to deal with it. Just think it would be safer for ALL the riders with something different.
you have to admit that hte FIM is much more robust and fair in the use of their rules, a few years back AC was disqaulifed from a whole weekend when he was points leader of the MX2 for attacking another rider,
and feel for poor old team NZ, Cody Cooper was given a 1 minute time penalty for failing the after race noise test, so now we have not qualified and are heading to the B Main
What bothered me more are the thousands of wooden stakes used to support this fencing. With the right accident a rider could be impaled on top of one of these (or by a shard of a broken one).
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