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However... thanks for posting a video that shows the correct time to send it....
halfway through a main, halfway through a season, while on probation, isn't that time...
I watched the race with some non-moto people last night and when I saw Bam Bam and Anderson up front I knew we were in for something good.
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He had decided that before he even hit that jump because he knew everyone was taking the outside line.
I am being sarcastic.
Never said it was some sort of an end all, don't really care about your replays either. This corner was designed such that this type of pass happened all night long. Take a look at the 250 main, did Pierce Brown get docked and fined for the same move on Jordan Smith? It was the same corner and almost identical to Barcia / JA. There were others as well but this was the closest example. It was around 7 minutes into the main...
Nothing wrong with what Barcia did in my opinion. He did not rail directly into JA and take him out. He was racing and going for it. I would feel the same if JA took Barcia out.
Last I checked, there didn't need to be an end all to an opinion as that is exactly what it is... an opinion.
Opinion - a belief based on experience and on certain facts but not amounting to sure knowledge, belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge
However, I would imagine, Anderson while unhappy, knows he can't really complain about it.
He was on the good side of the collisions at the beginning of the year and not so much lately.
Man was trying to thread the needle…. Racing.
30+ regionals hit harder than that. For nothing but a ticket to Loretta’s Lynn’s.
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Anderson didn’t expect Barcia to be going sideways across the straightaway (even though he probably should have)
It looked like 21 arced the corner and tucked in and head down from the traction leaving the corner seeing it was all traction from that berm, at least from what I could see.
Barcia didn't go and put it into him, Barcia just blocked the line. Dumb move for sure, a risky move for sure but it's on both of them. These penalties are a crap shoot.
If he wasn't on probation, can anyone say with a straight face that he needs a penalty... because there is a long history of that pass in SX.
To me, the probation has to be considered in light of the pass executed. If he went high, hit him hard and put him over the berm, an actual aggressive hit, sure, that's "aggressive riding".
I don't see how probation should prohibit him from a passing manoeuvre we've regularly seen and would otherwise shake our head and say that's racing.
Further, what does probation and a penalty do if this is the outcome? 3K? Bam drives Lambos! 3 points? Who gives a shit, he's 50 points back and he'd look at it like a damn pickup pass if that's the penalty. Don't attempt it and lose the points, attempt and most of the time get away with it – as he has!
Either fucking do it or don't. Make the penalty a deterrent, or acknowledge the history of the sport being littered with moves like this and let it go, frontier justice, especially since the dude on the bad end has done it three times this year.
"Thought exercise. Does being on probation necessitate a penalty, regardless of the contact severity or type?
If he wasn't on probation, can anyone say with a straight face that he needs a penalty... because there is a long history of that pass in SX."
The Big Gorilla is correct!
I think everyone knows I'm about as "In Anderson's Corner" as one can get; but, damn! I've gotta roll with Crush on this!
But, then there's the perfect pic from FIREfish:
Justin is going 90 degrees ACROSS the track...90 degrees to the Race Line. That's a bit extreme. I usually don't see that unless someone is TOTALLY "out of control"; but, as I've said else-where...Justin's goin' for a win...for the money.
Here's one I don't think I've seen in here, so far: Jason IS NOT "looking up" and that is greatly impacting his situational awareness. That's something I personally work on...a lot.
That says it all.
Also, how come anytime this happens with Barcia we have excuse wizards in here breaking down mathematics, angles, situational awareness. He apologized on the track but then on the podium he can’t even get his words together right because he knows it was questionable at best. Seems to be only him that this continually happens with.
I truly do not know how a factory rider, a supercross champion at that, can have this issue. Dude walked right into Barcia's trap on that one.
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