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9/6/2018 10:31am
This is absolutely ridiculous and it makes a complete joke out of a premier MX championship. There are numerous other egregious examples I could name throughout the last few seasons, but I will focus solely on this week.
Scenario 1:
Benny Bloss gets a terrible start. Instead of staying on the track, he conveniently rides around it, avoiding a ton of carnage and gaining about 20 spots in the process. That GoPro footage on him was so terrible that I don't even need to explain it further. Penalty there should have been extreme. A lap seems fair to me with how much he gained.
Scenario 2:
Chase Sexton goes down right before the rollers prior to the finish. That's going to cost him a lot of time. He will now come into those rollers with no momentum and have to fight through them. Nope. Why do that? He decides to just go off the track and blast down the side of the rollers until he's gained substantial momentum and then comes back onto the track to finish out the section. Penalty there should have been an estimated time gained plus 20 seconds added to his race time.
Scenario 3:
Similar to scenario 2, Justin Barcia makes a mistake and goes off the track just before those rollers prior to the finish line. Once again, this is going to cost him some time. He will have to get back on the track and have no momentum for the rest of the rollers section and have to fight through them. As in scenario 2, why do that? Just continue off the side of the track with the throttle pinned for awhile until you gain enough momentum to finish out the section at a high speed, and then re-enter. Penalty there once again should have been an estimated time gained plus 20 seconds.
Why are the powers that be doing absolutely nothing about these laughable, egregious, and downright terrible track cuts? It's making a mockery of our sport and it makes no sense as to why these aren't strictly penalized. And don't come in here and say it was a muddy track and that's why it was allowed. I don't care if it was a tough track. Stay within the boundaries.
Imagine the NFL allowing players to run out of bounds to avoid tackles. Or the NBA allowing players to dribble out of bounds to avoid defenders. Or maybe the MLB allowing pitchers to expand the strike zone whenever they wanted to. It would make no sense and people would hate it. This is no different here in MX when people go off the track and aren't penalized. In each of the above scenarios, a rider clearly gained a massive advantage by going off the track and did not re-enter at the next opportunity. The result? Nothing penalized. Play on. I just don't get it. I never will. Things need to change.
Scenario 1:
Benny Bloss gets a terrible start. Instead of staying on the track, he conveniently rides around it, avoiding a ton of carnage and gaining about 20 spots in the process. That GoPro footage on him was so terrible that I don't even need to explain it further. Penalty there should have been extreme. A lap seems fair to me with how much he gained.
Scenario 2:
Chase Sexton goes down right before the rollers prior to the finish. That's going to cost him a lot of time. He will now come into those rollers with no momentum and have to fight through them. Nope. Why do that? He decides to just go off the track and blast down the side of the rollers until he's gained substantial momentum and then comes back onto the track to finish out the section. Penalty there should have been an estimated time gained plus 20 seconds added to his race time.
Scenario 3:
Similar to scenario 2, Justin Barcia makes a mistake and goes off the track just before those rollers prior to the finish line. Once again, this is going to cost him some time. He will have to get back on the track and have no momentum for the rest of the rollers section and have to fight through them. As in scenario 2, why do that? Just continue off the side of the track with the throttle pinned for awhile until you gain enough momentum to finish out the section at a high speed, and then re-enter. Penalty there once again should have been an estimated time gained plus 20 seconds.
Why are the powers that be doing absolutely nothing about these laughable, egregious, and downright terrible track cuts? It's making a mockery of our sport and it makes no sense as to why these aren't strictly penalized. And don't come in here and say it was a muddy track and that's why it was allowed. I don't care if it was a tough track. Stay within the boundaries.
Imagine the NFL allowing players to run out of bounds to avoid tackles. Or the NBA allowing players to dribble out of bounds to avoid defenders. Or maybe the MLB allowing pitchers to expand the strike zone whenever they wanted to. It would make no sense and people would hate it. This is no different here in MX when people go off the track and aren't penalized. In each of the above scenarios, a rider clearly gained a massive advantage by going off the track and did not re-enter at the next opportunity. The result? Nothing penalized. Play on. I just don't get it. I never will. Things need to change.
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If the people with a real vested interest in the results are able to look past it, I'd be willing to guess it isn't that big of an issue. To answer your question, it will be addressed when these people see something that is egregious enough that it made a difference.
MXdN 1998- Foxhill Reeks 2 from Matthias VE on Vimeo.
Go to 30 minutes and you will find Everts waiting at the bottom of the hill, till RC, Dowd, ... all were out his way so he could get to the top of the mountain haha! EVERTS MOUNTAIN!
But cutting the track? Noh that was something they didn't do back then.
Example: JMart makes mistake going up one of the hills at Millville I think it was, and instead completely cuts the track. All on camera and all for the world to see. I believe he got a very small penalty that didn't change the results. So hell, why not just cut it all the time then.
But OP is right, the track cutting is out of control. Mud race or not.
By the way, here is the Martin track cut. He certainly didn't gain anything, but his HUGE mistake certainly didn't cost him anything either. Thanks to the good ol' track cut.
https://youtu.be/wo2bhzazGow
Thank you for this
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Nope. He just cuts the track. It's funny to watch them stop moving out of the way after they see what he is going to do.
But yup, he should have been DQ'd for that moto. Worst track cut I can recall.
I trust the officials to make the right call. In a mud race I’m cool with a little more leniency.
Foxhills is an incredible track to ride in the dry (the camera doesn't do those drops and banked corners justice) but it really doesn't hold ANY water.
Post a reply to: This track cutting has become an absolute joke. When will the AMA/MX Sports actually do something?