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Racing is about winning and winning is who crosses the finish line first...nothing else matters....nobody gets a bonus or points for the fastest lap.
At no point did I say that Jeremy doesn't have what it takes to consistently make the main, but on Saturday he did not and that's all that matters.
Even my Wife understands this concept.
"Even my Wife understands this concept"
I'm guessing she won't be reading your remark?
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Chad Reed, Daytona, 2008.
As for a series, is any sane individual able to argue that James Stewart wasn't the fastest guy in the 2003 125 Nationals, even though he finished 3rd at the end of the season?
Just go into the vault for the 70's and 80's and all you're going to see is who won races and who the champions are, I can guarantee you that there are hundreds of stories of who was fastest or who should have won but didn't that are lost in history. All anybody remembers or cares about is who win races and who was the champion.
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Many things can happen that prevent the fastest guy from winning. Most of the time, it's getting a bad start. That's all part of racing. The fastest guy doesn't always win. In motor sports, anything can happen.
People remember the losers of the battle of the Alamo as heroes. History remembers Magoo being Hannah's equal or better many times, despite not having the wins due to equipment failure.
Now if you're talking about the lazy, casual, uneducated fans you may have a point. But those folks probably aren't going to be looking at the record books anyway.
A red/white checkered flag for every fastest lap, and the black/white checkered flag for the very end.
Whoever gets the most red/white checkered flags, gets a free dinner at Outback.
I was around at the time of Magoo in fact I was wrenching for a top rider and what I remember of Magoo was that his crashing was epic and frequent. Of course in those days everybody wasn't on a stop watch so we didn't know who set the fastest lap time, but my guess would be that Magoo was right there. The term most associated with Magoo at the time was wild and most of his DNF's were attributed to crashing and not mechanicals.
Fast laps mean nothing if you don't win...
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If I race a marathon and take off like a bat out of hell and run the first mile in 5:30....everybody else paces themselves for the whole 26 miles...so around mile 3 they all pass me and finish ahead of me, never running a 5:30 mile....does that mean that I can say I was the fastest runner there?
There are a whole lot of Enduro racers out there that would disagree with you lol
Could RD or MM clocked a better time if they needed to?
Fastest lap time does not equal fastest rider. Fastest lap time = fastest lap time.
At the very least, the person with the fastest average speed is the fastest rider (from lap 2 to the finish). But as you said, DNF's can ruin a rider's average speed, too. Mechanicals are completely unrelated to a rider's performance, which is what true speed is all about. Why would I want to factor the machine's integrity into a comparison of who the most badass rider on any given night was? I wouldn't.
This dude and the OP have to be trolling. I mean holy fuck.
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