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Hahahaha. Here are two pics I took going to River Valley MX and Village Creek last summer. Average summer day for us in Texas is usually 102ish with humidity in the high 80% low 90% range. Come on over and hang with the U.S. guys. Lmfao. I always thought of the GP's as the tough guys on the tough tracks. For like 35 years I've thought that and people always laughed at me. That opinion has changed completely. That track was terrible. Hell I thought it was Shady Grove MX for a minute. (For those of you in the DFW area). Temps only around 100 and fit riders were suffering???? Thai GP. Laughable. (The track and decisions. The riders are badass mf'rs. Nothing but respect for all the guys out there)
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Looks like they set up a tub with water, like so many do. I've taken an Otto bin, lots of water and ice, to events to sit / stand in after a race. It's bloody wonderful!
Those rooms behind the tub - they were AC'd? Some say it's a good idea to use it (AC'd facilities), other don't.
There's the interview with RV - it surely will be up now on more than just MXGeoffs site, so you don't have to bring 'clicks' to him - that pretty much shows his approval / understanding of the decision. Perhaps even the most dedicated to slagging GPs people might think differently, if they hear their hero not having a problem with it..
after what happened with tixier they had to do something- dudes were DOGGING it at the end of moto2 and that was with the 5 minutes shaved.
err on the side of athlete safety, always.
then i can explain to you not everyone lives like that here
I saw a picture of Strijbos sitting in a kiddie tub, so they had facilities to cool the riders down. It was just one of those days you can't even come out of your front door without sweating.
Glad to hear everyone is pretty okay after being told not to ride the second race.
seriously, there are shops that just sell ice in nearly every town.
getting enough ice would not be a problem
you know they put ice the beer here?
yes that place sucked but last years didnt.
When it was announced that the second race was cut short, some of your ex-colleagues in America from your state were fairly critical of the decision. What did you think of it?
It’s a little bit different. Safety is number one in the entire field of the Lites class and the 450 class. All these guys, and even myself, we’re coming from Europe. It’s 42 degrees there and it’s 100 and something here and high humidity. So we’ve lost a rider a couple years ago in Red Bud. And it’s so much you have to necessarily worry about the top guys, but anybody anywhere outside the top ten that might not know their limits or anything… I think it’s a safety thing. Five minutes basically was about three laps. That’s really not going to do a whole lot. I think that was a decent call, being that we all came from Europe and the extreme temperature that we just came to from there.
So he didn't need the race cut short, the out of shape guys did....I'm with Reed and RC on this. Sorry not sorry....
I spent a month in Thailand in 2012, around this time of year, its very hot and humid, but no worse than florida in summer, but i think the biggest difference is the fact that its the change, nearly all the Euros have come from winter conditions, and even snow to go into this heat and humidity,
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after viewing the race yesterday, I think it was a good call and the 1st moto should have been 25 min then 2nd 20 min.
Those guy's were beaten down from the heat.
I'm a huge RC fan, but he never left his comfort zone to race the GP series so he won't know how difficult it is to travel across continents from extreme heat to very cold conditions in such a short period of time. So in this case, he should keep quiet and save his breath for cooling his pies.
Heat exhaustion might be somewhat delayed in someone with a higher aerobic fitness level, but it isn't linear and each person's tolerance would likely be different if they had equal aerobic fitness levels. Heat tolerance has nothing to do with being "tough", either.
But at a certain point you have to let the riders themselves determine when they need to reduce their exertion level. There's no way to regulate the sport of motocross to ensure the "optimum" temperature at which each athlete is able to perform at their highest level with no danger that exertion could harm them. The Lichtle tragedy was just that, a tragedy, but obviously it was a rare event for an MX athlete competing at that level. It was very much the exception rather than the rule, and should be treated as such.
I'd listen to RV before I listened to either of these two. He was there racing and experienced the heat and felt the decision was fine. The other 2 are just stoking some kind of "we're tougher than you" agenda from the other side of the world. Pretty childish IMO.
No RV didn't need it cut short, obviously neither did Cairoli or Desalle or any of the other 'pussies' the guys you, RC and Reed are criticising it was the the guys that don't have the same awareness of their bodies as the top guys.. What you're saying is they only need to worry about the top guys everyone else can just die or whatever?
Edited to fix my atrocious grammar haha
They may have saved a life or 2.
Seems like a huge misstep to me, but what do I know!?
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