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A track that’s good for passing allows riders within 1% of each others speed to find another line and make a pass.
When you are 10-20% faster of course you can make passes, because your sight lap is faster than the riders race pace you’re against.
Colt Nichols passed everyone no problem until he got to Jett Lawrence. He was without a doubt faster than Jett, seeing as he caught him from way way back. And yet it took him several laps and help from lappers to make the pass on Jett, without the lapper I doubt he makes the pass.
So once colt got to a rider even remotely close to his speed he couldn’t make a pass on this track. Of course he could blow by the other guys before Jett, look at the speed difference - no track on earth could deny that type of difference.
How tough is this to see?
Brayton made passes in the lcq so it’s ok for passing. Still laughing at that. Brayton could ride the track without a clutch or brake lever and win the lcq.
But if you want to watch some racing mxgp is where its at,
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The fact that Jett was able to slow him down had a lot to do with Jett's skill level just as Colt's ability to pass those other riders had a lot to do with theirs.
There were places to make passes. Every track is different. The obstacles in front of a rider (track and other riders) change each moto. The sport should not come down to a straight time trial.
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I think another thing not being discussed is the difference between the success of James Stewart vs someone like Dungey. Dungey was a beast but rode extremely calculated. I can think of him as boring, but you can never argue that he threw away championships. James on the other hand was maybe the most entertaining rider to watch week in and week out, he was willing to put it all on the line to make that pass anywhere on the track. But in hindsight he cost himself more championships than he won riding like that. The class of today were all juniors and in training clubs watching that, so what do you think they’ll be modeling their riding mentality off of. Seems like the racers today are more satisfied with letting the race come to them instead of attacking. I can’t blame them for that but I think a byproduct of that is people complaining about track layout like that’s the one thing to fix our sport.
The only thing I can come up with is fewer lappers. But there must be something else enough of you bang on about it.
With last rounds layout, the best passing corners were indeed left turns and it showed. Aside from jumping deep into right 90 turns, that was it unless it was in the air.
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