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Zachintosh 3/16/2020 9:25am
3/16/2020 9:25am
Maybe they could bring in some different dirt? They’ve got time.
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motoxxx599 3/16/2020 9:28am
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TriRacer27 wrote:
If they're going to do anything, they should hold 1-3 races in Florida at the private test tracks. Limit it to the top 10 in the...
If they're going to do anything, they should hold 1-3 races in Florida at the private test tracks. Limit it to the top 10 in the series, limited travel required, no fans, you don't even have to have a live feed. Hell, plenty of championships have been decided without a live TV feed. Technically, I don't think the FIM or AMA even need Feld in order to hold a race like this.

If they want to settle it, that's the only thing that really makes any sense, and even that is just relatively speaking compared to holding anything in a stadium.

Otherwise just call the series where it stands and let the riders focus on their families and what's next.

That wouldn't work. The tracks aren't designed to handle more than just a few riders and the aren't wide enough for tuffblocks or any other safety measures. Plus Team A wouldn't agree to race at Team B's track and vice versa.
Langston_fan 3/16/2020 9:33am
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As a Roczen fan, im happy. Hard pack and big whoops and slick conditions suit him. Not saying he is faster than Tomac, but i do...
As a Roczen fan, im happy. Hard pack and big whoops and slick conditions suit him. Not saying he is faster than Tomac, but i do think with Kenny’s good starts he should maintain a gap rather than get closed down by Eli....hopefully 😋
reynardfan1 wrote:
Maintain what gap? He’s down by 3...and Tomac is a dry slick demon...watch Denver from last year...this does not favor KR imo
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny in a main though.
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blockhead17 3/16/2020 9:34am
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The only way I see it Happening is if they just have 20x 250 riders and 20x 450 riders
When you add up dirt wurx and camera crew there isn’t much room left for teams to bring their people.
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RG1 3/16/2020 9:37am
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Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
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motoxxx599 3/16/2020 9:57am
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Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22...
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
AMA rule book says the 70%.
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motogrady 3/16/2020 9:58am
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RG1 wrote:
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22...
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
Matthes podcast 3/13/2020 had weedge and JT.
It seemed 17 was mentioned, as the number of races the big teams we’re obligated to show up, for their deals with major sponsors to be fulfilled.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s what I got out of it.
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motogrady 3/16/2020 10:00am
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RG1 wrote:
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22...
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
motoxxx599 wrote:
AMA rule book says the 70%.
Where are they at now? Anyone got a calculator?
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FWYT 3/16/2020 10:04am
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Don't see it happening. Things are shutting down for a while.
Gotta get done what's gotta get done.
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Press516 3/16/2020 10:06am
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It could happen... But I'm not confident it will. If they wait till the very end of the SX season, maybe the situation will be different enough to get it done.

But, lets just pretend for a minute...

Are we talking a Sat - Wed - Sat - Wed - Sat schedule over 2 weeks + 1 day? How intense would that be?
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gym_jackets 3/16/2020 10:08am
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motogrady wrote:
Where are they at now? Anyone got a calculator?
Two races short. Currently at 58.8%. Completing two more races would put the series at 70.5% completed.
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Langston_fan wrote:
As a Roczen fan, im happy. Hard pack and big whoops and slick conditions suit him. Not saying he is faster than Tomac, but i do...
As a Roczen fan, im happy. Hard pack and big whoops and slick conditions suit him. Not saying he is faster than Tomac, but i do think with Kenny’s good starts he should maintain a gap rather than get closed down by Eli....hopefully 😋
reynardfan1 wrote:
Maintain what gap? He’s down by 3...and Tomac is a dry slick demon...watch Denver from last year...this does not favor KR imo
Langston_fan wrote:
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny...
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny in a main though.
He's closed a 5 second gap multiple times this season already. Then gapped him by 5 seconds.
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motogrady 3/16/2020 10:12am
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Anyway u look at it guys, history is being made.
This will be mentioned in conversations by moto heads 20 years from now.
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RG1 wrote:
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22...
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
motoxxx599 wrote:
AMA rule book says the 70%.
Where in the AMA rulebook does it say that? Not being a wiseguy, I just want to read it.
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Skip Intro 3/16/2020 10:35am
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A minor injury puts a guy out for 5 rounds? Not cool with that personally. Way too much incentive for the field excluding 3 and 94 to ride WTFO with very little regard. Asking for problems. Knee jerk. Get 2 rounds in.
mattyhamz2 3/16/2020 10:37am
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RG1 wrote:
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22...
Is the minimum requirement for number of rounds needed for it be classed as a championship really 14-15? That seems like a lot. F1 have 22 races and their minimum is 8.
motoxxx599 wrote:
AMA rule book says the 70%.
dkurtd wrote:
Where in the AMA rulebook does it say that? Not being a wiseguy, I just want to read it.
I just looked in the championship area, page 39, and didn't see anything about that.
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jorgechavez 3/16/2020 10:39am
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mattyhamz2 wrote:
I just looked in the championship area, page 39, and didn't see anything about that.
Yeah I’ve looked through the rule book and didn’t find anything about it. I may have missed it, though.
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bvm111 3/16/2020 10:39am
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rider892 wrote:
There won’t be any more supercross this season , think about it hotels and other things are closing in Vegas this week. No way they will...
There won’t be any more supercross this season , think about it hotels and other things are closing in Vegas this week. No way they will let a race happen where this is well over 250 industry people
bradnelson wrote:
I think you're right. All MGM resorts are now closed in Vegas. Just the start probably.
So is Wynn from what I heard in the briefing I just attended.

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EngIceDave 3/16/2020 10:54am
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Teams rarely stay on the strip, and there's way more rooms than on the strip
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GuyB 3/16/2020 10:58am
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jorgechavez wrote:
I heard that as well, the guy also said they want to start it in two weeks. Maybe he just misspoke but that seems like a...
I heard that as well, the guy also said they want to start it in two weeks. Maybe he just misspoke but that seems like a bit of a stretch.
Who was "the guy."
Langston_fan 3/16/2020 11:01am
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reynardfan1 wrote:
Maintain what gap? He’s down by 3...and Tomac is a dry slick demon...watch Denver from last year...this does not favor KR imo
Langston_fan wrote:
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny...
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny in a main though.
psg119 wrote:
He's closed a 5 second gap multiple times this season already. Then gapped him by 5 seconds.
On what surfaces? Glendale Kenny had his number...
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APLMAN99 3/16/2020 11:02am
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Langston_fan wrote:
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny...
Gap in the race....and yeah well aware Tomac is a demon on the slick stuff. I don’t think he closes a 5 second gap on Kenny in a main though.
psg119 wrote:
He's closed a 5 second gap multiple times this season already. Then gapped him by 5 seconds.
Langston_fan wrote:
On what surfaces? Glendale Kenny had his number...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they were dirt surfaces...…….!
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face biter 3/16/2020 11:17am
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Things get weirder every day, and as much as it sucks to admit it things are going to get worse before they get better.
Maybe we should all just put our elbows on the table, and in the immortal words of John Mulhaney accept that “ this might as well happen “.
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FLrippa 3/16/2020 11:20am
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Sucks for whoever wins there will always be an asterisk next to their name
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jorgechavez 3/16/2020 11:25am
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GuyB wrote:
Who was "the guy."
Someone who goes by Dan and works for Snap-On and was on Main Event Moto. He apparently heard these things from one of the teams he works with.
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GuyB 3/16/2020 11:26am
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jorgechavez wrote:
Someone who goes by Dan and works for Snap-On and was on Main Event Moto. He apparently heard these things from one of the teams he...
Someone who goes by Dan and works for Snap-On and was on Main Event Moto. He apparently heard these things from one of the teams he works with.
Sounds like an authority.
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jorgechavez 3/16/2020 11:32am
3/16/2020 11:32am
GuyB wrote:
Sounds like an authority.
I didn't say he was, in fact the OP even specifies it's all just rumours with the very first word of this thread.
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GuyB 3/16/2020 11:52am
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Do you want the real deal facts? Even if zero additional races are run, it would be considered a complete championship.

With that said, I'll stray to the more speculative side. I hear that Feld will try to get in as many additional rounds as possible, in an effort to make it as complete as possible. Multiple rounds at a time? Maybe. Mid-week SX races? That's also a possibility.

We just need to see how things progress on the disease front over the next couple of weeks, and what comes out on the planning side.
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SwingHard 3/16/2020 11:59am
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Adam43 wrote:
I admire the moxie and determination to pull something off. It’s part of what makes the sport, and the country, so great. But this is a...
I admire the moxie and determination to pull something off. It’s part of what makes the sport, and the country, so great.

But this is a misreading of the situation. We are at the very beginning of this outbreak - not the middle, not near the end.

It’s also delusional to suggest that supercross will be able to do what is needed to stage an event when you look at the steps that are being taken in much larger and vital parts of the economy.

Supercross 2020 is finished.
Let's say a few riders get hurt and require a trip to a already Overwhelmed Hospital or something completely unforeseen happens at one of these rounds they're trying to fit in? You can hear the Trauma Doc now," he broke whatever bone racing a motorcycle,WTF"?!! Tape him & splint him and get him out of the way! Im pretty sure said rider WILL NOT be a priority patient. Sponsor money, obligations or whatever, it seems alittle irresponsible to me.
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GuyB wrote:
Who was "the guy."
jorgechavez wrote:
Someone who goes by Dan and works for Snap-On and was on Main Event Moto. He apparently heard these things from one of the teams he...
Someone who goes by Dan and works for Snap-On and was on Main Event Moto. He apparently heard these things from one of the teams he works with.
But was it verified by his wife's manicurist?
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