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tracks that take skill, but those with the ability can indeed move up through the field as you see in the above race.
and notice the track, not just giant jump after giant jump like today and no life-threatening jumps that would lead a rider to slamming into the concrete hard ramp of the next upcoming jump, who was the genius track designer anyway who started doing that.....
We just have to get over this current track design style that we have had for so long now and rethink things
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It is not about whether a bike has 35 or 45 hp. the racing on the track is the same for either engine hp size
it is about a track design that increases the quality of racing while at the same time is safer.
You also gotta understand that a 60 foot double can be waayy safer than a 10 foot table based on how the track and jumps are laid out. Start throwing in random bumps and singles everywhere and the track becomes a nightmare.
Cant we just be happy that supercross is as big as it is today? A lot of yall seem to miss the fact that motocross isnt some huge sport like football, but its been getting a lot more recognition and outside sponsership in recent years.
RC,TRAVIS,JAMES
None of these 3 habitually followed mcgraths inside lines around the whole track... These dudes railed the outside and launched stuff
That was the big change in track design.... To change the tracks now you're going to have to deliberately change the Turns/90 degree corners.
you have to make them unrailable...(made that word up).. put some obstacle in the middle of the turn that makes the outside less of a advantage.
Because on a sx track now, you hardly have anybody taking inside lines like in that 90s video posted above... if you force them to the inside line.. they're not going to be able to pull that 4-3-3 combo to the next corner... it now turns into.. 2-3-3-2....maybe a 2-4-4..and that's if they land perfect on the backside of the double...Thus increasing the side by side battles.
But the powers that be, will not look at that option.
I honestly think there may be something in the track designing contracts that ties there hands.... I know for a fact a few year's ago they wanted mandatory triples on each baseline at anahiem. Heard from a insider in the pits who was talking about track designs.
Never saw it used again.
Also thought 70 mph is way to high speed and we would get better racing ifmthey were on the ground more rather than all following the same jump pattern.
Now, let's go to the other extreme and make it have way more jumps, ones that shoot you up, not out. By having more jumps, and making the track super technical, it slows the pace down, which lessens the risk of injury because we don't have guys doing 70mph(literally). The technical track would also provide better racing because riders would be more prone to both little mistakes that would create a passing opportunity, or allow riders to try different lines to make a pass as opposed to everyone doing the same rhythms and following each other around like a train all night.
This is all IMO, though. I just think speeds are getting too fast, and that's where the injuries come from. Wrecking at 20-30mph is way better than ragdolling at 50-60mph.
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BTW....Rcm , i laid out an apology for you last week. Sorry for coming off like such a jerk.
Put all the 450f guys on 250f's this coming Anaheim and the race will be exactly the same. The lap times may be half or full second less but that is not important. I imagine someone is going to note they sound differently, ok, so what.... what I am getting at is that the racing would be exactly the same, it makes no difference whether they are on 250's or 450's, everyone remembers Roczen at those MXND races on his 250 racing with the 450's and RV at the USA MXDN some years back on his 250. This ain't NASCAR or road racing, it is MX and the rider is most of the equation.
If you put all the current 450F stars on 250f's and put then on that Bayle/Stanton track from the 90's, the riders would be on the ground more racing and there would be fewer riders with concussions and broken bones due to slamming into the concrete like face of a giant jump after falling 75 feet from the previous oversized jump
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How often do you go to watch a race and go immediately to the biggest jump on the track? I do. You watch, and you are amazed by what they are doing. But after you have seen 40 guys do the same thing, lap after lap, it loses it's wow factor. So you move on to watch another part of the track.
If the jumps were made bigger the same thing still applies. Take freestyle. We were blown away by Carey Hart's backflip. We were also blown away by Metzger(?) nailing it as a repeatable trick. But now? I couldn't care less about a backflip. If someone landed a triple backflip it would still get old after seeing everyone do it. It's like a comedian telling the same joke over and over.
But it's a Catch 22. The newbies love the jumps. That's what they find amazing about our sport. But I'm pretty sure that they also lose interest after they have become used to it.
But racing is always exciting. Look at the Straight Rhythm recently. Jumps galore, but what inspired all the cheers? Jump combos or overtaking and a close finish?
Jumps are fine, and part of the sport. But designing tracks to allow close racing and passing should be the main goal.
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