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I still think Broome should be back on the schedule, even if just every other year. It's scenic, has insane elevation and is one of the best tracks for viewing. Plus it has some incredible Mx history that has taken place there.
What do they do to it? Rip & till it too deep?
It needs leaving harder. Maybe rip it, water it and then roll it back to hard pack.
Ironman last week was 1 million percent better!
Terrible advice.
HOLY CRAP ...this track is muff cabbage!
It still has that element of loam, without seeming like its riding through wet concrete.
It still ruts up, but not footpeg deep. The top crust could dry out if the track is left in the sun baking, but with the knobblies digging through it constantly its forever turning over to the wetter stuff underneath.
This fashion of tilling and watering so you've got 18" depth of wet mud is just crap.
Pit Row
It is the end of summer in a desert environment in the middle of a heat wave.
Any california track is going to look like shit compared to Millville, Red Bud, Washougal, or most of the other national tracks. Track prep is going to be the same in the late August time frame whether it be Pala, Glen Helen, Elsinore, or even if they brought back Carlsbad or Saddleback
If you think any track prep crew under these circumstances would not have had it as wet as pala's did yesterday, you are nuts. It is their only option to ever keep the track from being a windy dust bowl by the middle of the first moto,
Yeah, it was a bit one lined in qualifying. Hell they all are because of timed qualifying riders aren't out forming different lines anymore.
But that track formed into a gnarley rough, rutted, and multiline track that was worthy of a championship finale.
Sexton proved that it had limits if pushed too hard, and eli proved that technique and experience can still win.
So maybe let's stop the constant whining about pala.
There was some awesome racing yesterday.
oh, and you can shut off the yearly "bring back glen helen stupidity too.
You "oh, the good old days" when we could drag our cooler up Mt whatever are just delusional.
It is probably never going to happen, and as a non-Californian, the embellishment on the wonders of all things glen helen are just a bit too much. That place didn't look that much different than pala, it just had a few bigger hills and some really overdone jumps.
most of the rest of us east of New Mexico hope maybe someday the stars will align and there will be something new and so cal loses a race and then we can just listen to you whine about that. Hey, throw in a couple more supercrosses somewhere other than so cal too. that would just be so awesome.
Maybe if you had one outdoor MX, and one SX race at anahiem you guys would learn to appreciate what you have and stop with the constant whiny bitchfest.
don't think that would work in so cal
"It is the end of summer in a desert environment in the middle of a heat wave."
It would expect that someone at MX Sports would know the same thing as you and not schedule the f@cking race there.
Some of those amazing east coast tracks stopped holding nationals because no one came to see the races.
Pala may not be a Red Bud or Millville type of track, but it has two things critical to a successful race that other places don't have::
(1) the biggest dirt bike fan base of any area in the world (although the French were packed in standing room only at the last GP in St Jean, and had a much larger crowd than Pala - it was impressive)
(2) You have to have a track owner who is reasonable to work with.
You guys do realize this is a business, right?
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