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Plenty o' passing opportunities.
The lengthy "FOURNICATOR" - the Quadzilla of jumps...
Also, worth mentioning, there was - technically another foursome being
conquered - many would leap off the front side of that one tabletop and clear
the next two jumps into the corner. According to a weird drunk guy that was
at my house watching the race with me, that was also a "quad".
*Almost threw a beer threw my flat-screen when cameras switched to
waving crowds during RC's hot-lap. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.
I don't understand the crowd...it was like a morgue.
I sat right in front of the quad jump and TV did not do it justice. Those guys were pinned coming out of the corner to hit that jump.
The Pit Party was a real long walk, real long walk from the stadium.
The track had ruts they just didn't show them on TV very well.
Atl track didn't have any flow to it. It did make lap times longer as there were not a lot of berms.
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I'd like to see them build a dragonback-single-reverse dragonback like they did at the Pastrana designed track last year. The obstacle was alittle smaller in length then the most recent incarnation, and make it possible to triple form dragon to dragon. I think Chad and James were the only two to do it, and James crashed in the heat race attempting it. Good obstacle to seperate the riders in my opinion.
CR or JS might have done it, but it would have meant going waaaaay wide and even then, it was quite a gap...
some of the worst endos i have ever seen at atlanta.
The flat corners (and hard dirt that prevented 1 single good rut from forming) meant there were like 10 good lines through each corner. The riders were not giving up too much time by not taking the main racing line.
Corners should not be left-right-left-right, etc. When that happens, it limits options, but with back-to-back corners in the same direction, riders used the entire track to set up for the next tight corner.
Oh and a third thing, anyone notice how no-one seemed to get hurt on the quad? I say keep it.
TV made it look easy but the section before the finish was sick!
They could have had those big wide flat turns with a berm far outside... So going that far had to have an advantage, and then made two lanes down each straight, so it was fairly equal...
I don't think having a berm every corner is good, nor is all flats, but at the same time, anything different that makes the riders get out of the normal flow and rhythm and therefore have to really work to go faster than the next guy is a good thing!!!
Best layout, I would say yes.
Pit Row
One different thing I did notice was that they put more water on the track before the race than I ever remember before and the track ended up very dry and even a tad dusty.
Was just thinking it'd be cool if those bits were tilled up like an outdoor race, so you had some real cushion forming around and it'd prolly make the first turn safer too...
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