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Road Racing in the UK has BSB which is a great series , gone to a chase format, last 6 races count i think, because i just stopped watching.. not seen any of it this year , despite it being on live every round..
If you have to make excitement, the job is already lost IMO
If the series had a chase style system, A1 would still be exciting. Then throughout the series, even if one rider is consistently dominating, you have riders each week that are racing forward in an attempt to race themselves into the chase field. Once the chase starts, in those final weeks you have riders consistently competing for the championship week in and week out.
The action is spread out between both ends of the season, rather than starting high and tapering off consistently.
Something like make the podium finishers from the previous week start backwards in the gate. That would even things up a little.
And adding a 120ft jump over a tank with a killer whale in it might liven things up. They could get Sea World to sponsor it. It could be called the Sea World Supercross Jump of Death. Or the SWSJD for short.
Could you imagine the commercials. They could show Weston Peick crashing into the tank and punching Shamu in the back of the head.
How about instead of intake put some kind of restriction on the exhaust.
Quite the damn things while making it a much more level playing field, especially for the few privateers that are left out there.
The 450s are way too much for the indoor tracks. Slow them down and fundamentals like corner speed will separate the field.
What difference is the chase going to make except for artificially forcing a points race to go to the last round.
Speaking of points, how about restructuring the points payout table.
Then give points for heat race wins. This would make it possible to invert the field for the mains.
Riders would have to decide if they want first gate pick and just finish in a qualifying position or win the heat and have to come through the field.
Hell if that wont be considered how about letting there be a set number of races where the field is inverted. Get 20 envelopes with a description of the gate pick criteria.
Mix them and then draw them and put the round number on them.
Open that envelope while the lcqs are running and announce the findings.
"attention race fans, as a special feature of tonight's main events, the gate pick order will be reversed. The rider finishing in the final transfer spot in the consolation race will have first pick on the gate"
As far as the Chase dealio goes, we'll just have to agree to disagree. Playoffs obviously work for the team and stick and ball sports but I'm not a fan of it in motorsports, especially something as individual oriented as SX/MX. Not really as big a fan of NASCAR as I was when I was younger and I think the Chase deal factors into that. I believe a racing series champion should be the person who performs the best for the duration of the ENTIRE series. But that's just me and I'm a nobody with an antiquated outlook/opinion. The PTB are going to do whatever they want to do regardless of what I think, so be it. I'll still watch but I'm not going to get more excited about it. Anyhoo, carry on...
As you probably know, they already do the random gate scenario right now in Arenacross. They have three draws in the 2nd main: a normal 1st-finish gate, an inverted gate, and a middle-first gate. Of course, they run two rows, so gate spot is more critical.
Pit Row
That is why heat race wins would pay points or the heat race winners would not know if they get first or last gate pick until after the heats.
Imagine all the people...
Then remember what year it was?
I know it's not NASCAR but the chase creates excitement all year in that sport. Drivers race hard to try and get a spot in the chase. Then they race their asses off trying to stay in it to the end. As a NASCAR fan, I think it's a huge improvement form the old system.
I think the Nats need a little help too. Maybe not a chase but something. I went to the Ironman national again this year. And it was clear 90% of the 450 riders were mailing it in. Racing was poor and nobody was pushing it because it didn't matter. I thought the 450's were a snooze fest.
We were in the back corner by a 180 turn.
You could see most of the top 450 riders looking back just to make sure they stayed ahead of the guy behind them. As much as I love that place and its only 90 minutes from my house, I'm not sure I'm going back next year if the points battle is over.
Now, to be fair, A few of the 250 guys went balls out. But the were the exceptions.
1. "My favorite team, Carolina Panthers, won every game during the season except one, and then lost the championship. It doesn't matter how well you do to get there, you have to perform the whole way through"
They did preform all the way through the season. On average, no team was better. One bad day cost them the championship.
2. " If, for example, Roczen dominates the season before the "playoffs", but struggles during the end of the "playoffs" and looses the championship, that'll be his fault for not being there all season.
Once again, he is on average the best. He just had a bad few races. What if he caught the flu and had two bad races causing him to lose the championship? Year long points are there to erase the highs and lows.
3. "If you ride well all year, you'll win" No...In fact, if you limp along well enough to make the chase and ride well during the chase you could win.
IMO....philG is 100% right when he says "If you have to make excitement, the job is already lost"
Absolutely.
Same with the NBA.
But that's not the discussion here. The problem, as many on here have stated, is that the racing gets boring towards the end of the year. Hell even golf has a playoff! Although I don't watch it.
A lot of us are simply saying, why not try something new? Like I said even the nats get boring towards the end of the season.
You could do some sort of playoff in mx and sx. Have a regular season champ and a playoff champ.
Or something. All I know is what we currently have could be better. Just fooling around with the points structure won't make much of a difference.
Sports evolve to get better. They have to or the become stale
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