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Seriously
It’s not the air temp, it’s the dew point.
If it really is that high things could get ugly.
"WHAT THE FUCK! ONLY 25 MINUTES + 2!!! These guys's are pussies. It's the world we live in today!
"Yeah for sure gong to be hot! Are you going out to Pala tomorrow to watch?"
"NAH FUCK THAT MAAAAN!!! No shade and you gota wait in line for a beer or food. Fucking bullshit man!"
"Yeah me either. I'm going to stay inside and order take out and just watch on a free link"
The top guys aren’t immune to heat stroke and heat exhaustion just because they are fit. Furthermore most people who suffer it badly aren’t aware until too late as it affects your mental capacity.
Last year my wife’s cousin, who rides hard enduro and was a top ten runner at the big events like Erzberg, Sea to Sky etc, was riding an event here on Australia and suffered a severe episode of heat stroke. Was close to death, hospitalised for over a month, lucky to not suffer any permanent organ damage and won’t ride hard enduros ever again.
It can happen to anyone.
But this really sucks for the championship. Gaps between the two at the end of motos seem to have tightened as the series has progressed. As close as these two are 2-3 laps is a big deal.
When, not if, one or the other is closing 1-2 seconds a lap as the moto is winding down and closes it down to 2 or fewer seconds at the checkers the championship will always have a cloud around it.
Edit: IDK 104 temp with 20%-30% humidity and a sub 60 dew point… Central FL is 94 with a 74 dew point and 60%-70% humidity. Both are brutal but I think the dew point and humidity Trump a higher temp. They need to run 30 + 2. If you’re not training in CFL and/or not in shape then ride accordingly. But if a rider is training in CFL they should be able to handle it… and a bunch are.
Why not have the races earlier in the AM -(that's been most folks opinion).
No one here was privy to the decision making process. I love it when a bunch of people with zero accountability for the outcomes start throwing around their “solutions”.
Pit Row
But stretching the day out to racing later when it's hotter makes no sense to me and makes it more unsafe IMO even with a longer break between motos.
Is logistics more important than safety?
A lot of us on here grew up in the sport and all understand heat and have raced in it at many different levels.
That's where my opinion comes from.
I guess you’ll have to ask MX Sports.
And I'd assume you probably would rather race/ride in the cooler part of the day rather than the hottest part of the day.
And that is one option to reduce risk of heat exhaustion. Another is to shorten the races with longer breaks.
"He got overheated, basically, and by the last laps he was practically passing out on the bike. He just wouldn't quit. That was Josh: He just had so much heart and he wanted to be back competing at this level so bad that he wouldn't have quit for anything." - Bill Lichtle.
That is the racers mentality, in the moment you may not even realizing you are gassing yourself to an extreme level. In addition to that mentality, a symptom of heat stroke is poor judgement and decision making. I don’t get the big deal of trying to play it a little safer than normal when you’re flirting with 100+ temperatures.
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