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If you grew up racing Moroso and Homestead in the 80's this was a fact. Many of us ended up in the canals at one point or another.
The way the rule reads right now, the following situation is technically legal. Let's say Stewart and Villopoto are in a battle at the end of the race. Stewart is flying through the whoops and Villopoto is better on the rest of the track. With Villopoto in front of Stewart and only a lap left, Stewart is setting up a pass in the whoop section. Only Villopoto, knowing Stewart would pass him through the whoops, makes a mistake trying to push a little harder in the previous turn and goes off the track just before the whoop section. At this point, Villopoto takes advantage of the rules and keeps a decent speed off the track beside the whoops. He then rejoins the racing in front of Stewart just after the whoop section, staying in front of Stewart for the rest of the lap and preserving the win. Advantage gained? Technically, by the rules, no. He came back on the track in the same place (relative to the other riders) as he went off. Would the previous situation ever happen? Doubtful, but the fact that a race or god forbid a championship could potentially be decided on this rule is ridiculous.
The Unadilla first turn was a joke. Instead of getting pinched off and starting 30th, the riders pin it around the outside and come out in the top 10.
I could point to several other instances where this has happened, but it is most prominent on the first lap, which is where the rider can gain the biggest advantage by track cutting. There's a big difference between a 30th place start and a 10th place start.
Pit Row
2:50 mark.
Stewart was actually AHEAD of Canard when Canard pinned it and chopped Stewart's line. Stewart chopped the throttle to stay on the track and avoid contact. Canard just pinned it off the track and missed the entire double. He then came out at least 10 bike lengths ahead of Stewart. I love Canard, like most people do, but he should have at least been docked one position for that.
Like I said, there's several examples we can point to where this rule needs a major overhaul.
So you feel track cutting has severely affected, or will affect, the outcome of the championship?!
I was a MX referee for many years and , I will assure you, I would have dealt with the problem in some way.
So,what you need to decide is how to deal with a suspected gain in position.
The start would be easy to review video,elsewhere not so easy.
Since the start got this going lets deal with that.
A rider gains positions ,do you wait till moto end to assess a penalty? How big a penalty?
Or,
Post his number on the flagstand with a black flag and tell his mechanic.
Make that rider pull in to the mechanics area and stop,maybe a different time for the number of positions gained.
This way the rider would have time to regain the loss of positions.
Either way the rider needs to know a penalty is coming so he can make as many passes as he can to offset the point loss.
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