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In all seriousness though, why would he want to practice on something groomed –which is he pretty well versed on–when a lot of the tracks are sketchy and diverse over there.
He's been doing the right thing imo...
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Think he misses the boring romp of riding/test/training on the same SX track day after day, month after month?? Speed demon, just loves to pin it!!!!
The team headed down to the Island of Sardinia where they could choose between a selection of tracks situated in close proximity and presumably - due to the nature of being on a small Island - keep a relatively low profile. On their way down south they stopped off at a track in Marseille (France) to test for a few days (shown in the official Kawi promotional video released last week). Then they got a ferry over to the Island of Corsica and rode the track shown in this thread, before boarding another boat to Sardinia where they based themselves for the last two weeks. It's possible that they hadn't planned to ride that track on Corsica at all to begin with, but their passage to Sardinia was delayed by a day or two thanks to rough seas so they may have just taken the opportunity to ride while they were there. You have to realise that for six or seven months of the year that track is baked in sunshine so there is very little in the way of drainage when it rains in Winter.
January/Feb are the coldest and wettest months of the year for most of Europe, but teams still have to try and work around the weather as best they can. They live a very nomadic lifestyle just moving around form place to place usually. Very few tracks are maintained at all during winter, especially hardpack tracks that require a lot of prep, and I doubt the teams give track owners much pre-warning before they decide to turn up or monetary incentive to prep the tracks especially for them. The owners probably just toss them the keys and let them get on with it.
Perhaps you guys will also start to realise that the perception that Motocross is somehow more popular in Europe than America is purely a myth. This is one reason why European riders are tempted by a move to California or Florida, where they can train on perfectly groomed tracks in good weather and all year round.
This is the same track in Corsica a little later in the year probably...
And this is Corsica from June to September...
I would imagine most of the teams will be training in Belgium/ Holland from march till October. Most of them are based there, and there are a lot of tracks within close proximity of each other. Mainly sand, most of which don't get graded at all during the week (they just let them get rough and leave them like that) - you may think the track on the video is rubbish, but it will still be good practice/ set up for some of the old school hard pack tracks on the schedule like arco di Trento, talavera, maggiora, teuschental etc
travelling to spain is the only option for a lot of the teams based in Europe in the winter months, Belgium/Holland etc get really bad winters just like we do. Hopefully the weather will pick up in march for my first trip over to Holland this year, but its not uncommon for all the tracks to be shut even in early to mid march due to being too wet or covered in snow....
Certainly not closed until March.
Some tracks are closed in December and Januari but you can always find a place to ride if you really want to.
It's all depending on the weather, some tracks can take a lot of rain and some can't.
People who really want to ride go online and find a place which is open that weekend.
9 out of 10 times there's some place still open.
Why not, after all...
Come on, guys, we have a mission !
Pit Row
My video happened to pause to buffer just as Rattray was getting his pit board. It said 1:50.8, then below it 1:49.0. Could be his laptime against RV's? Or maybe just his last lap compared to his best. Doesn't matter either way i suppose but just thought it was interesting. RV looked like he was more than 1.8 faster than him though
It only takes one miscalculation by TC or any other rider around HIM all weekend to screw up this season. This sport is way to unpredictable to be throwing shit like that at only RV. It could happen to any of them.
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