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If at least a handful of the top guys would wear Heart Rate monitors and feed that to an online graphic, that would bring it to a lot of fitness type people that don't get how hard it is.
Would help with the typical non moto GF saying, "What's so hard about it? They just sit on the bike and the motor does all the work"....
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No reason I guess.
Fixed that for you. I will pass on the WMA riders.
I would be willing to bet that the IQ level of our sports best young (16-20 yrs of age) riders is in the 6th and 7th grade area at best.
I hope DC does not buckle on this rule.
It would actually save money, so if you implement. lets say, a 400lb combined rider/bike limit, then teams and privateers can save money by not having to spend $2,000 on mag hubs and titanium bolts. It is what F1 does (although their weights are a little extreme-to the low end) and that overpriced racing is finally providing better racing than Nascar has lately.
Just a thought, so now James would have to put lead in the bottom of his frame rails, and K-Dub would have to lighten his bike up.
I might be barkin up the wrong tree, but its just a thought that would bring the racing closer together possibly.
Another thought is either spec tires, or a "No Works Tires" rule
then the masses would come on out. 95 degree days
burning sun dust or go to the lake or pool get drunk BBQ
and chill? we all know most people are not core enough
to go out and bake in the sun.
what about bleachers with an awning and water cooled fans
i had seen this in like 85 or so at a little track in west texas i think.
i dont know really
i do think the SX an MX series are to close together let the guys
have at least a month off between.
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-As far as the competition caution this can be accomplished in about 30 seconds. Throw the caution at a line about 200 yards before the finish and stop the leader for 30 seconds, line them up as they come in to the caution area and then let them go for a rolling start 30 seconds later (speed controlled by leader)... if you are not within 30 seconds of the leader it really does not matter anyway. From a fitness standpoint this helps the leader more than anyone else as he gets the most time to recover.... Not that the guys leading seem to have any heart rate, arm pump issues anyway.
-I like the weight limit idea but it is unfair to put a guy that weighs 135Lbs on a 265Lbs bike and expect him to compete fairly against a 180Lbs guy on a 220Lbs bike.
-Take us back to available to the public tires "special" tires do not do anyone any good.
-Telemetry, get it, and broadcast it, every other motor sport has it, shoot I have telemetry for my toy cars, temperature, RPM as well as many other options if I want.
-Section split times, yet another simple item to implement that will improve the quality of the broadcast.
The thing is that taking MX to the next level as some people like to put it, will simply destroy the sport for good in America for the long time purist. It will just turn into a bigger circus than it already has sadly become. For me, my interest has been waining as the years go by and I find myself turning more and more to Moto GP and the MX GP's as my intelligence is not insulted during coverage. There, the sport has been preserved and is classic in it's presentation. We lost that a long time ago here, and are lost in a world of fireworks, hookers, flatbillers, monster trucks, "bling" and vulgarity.
You get the feeling that people won't be happy until MX is Nascar, and then what? Dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, and a couple of morons dressed in Kellogs outfits doing circles just so a "TV audience" can understand. Come of guys, is that what you want? The dream that TV morons can understand the sport? I personally think this is the difference between Jody and Combs, Jody sees MX heritage, Combs sort of does, but is now caught in making money and will suck TV's cock until the end. I'd rather go ride in a field with some buddies, and at least have some great memories of the sport before it was turned into this circus. Motorcycling by nature has always been a bit fringe, why try to fight this? It takes skill, intelligence, etc, it's not a joke, why debase it so? My 2 cents, peace.
They could really do more with the TV coverage....automated maps of the track, with the riders represented as little dots, so we can see just how far a "15 second lead" really is. (they do this in road bike racing).
More helmet/bike cameras....
They need to exploit the awesomeness of an MX start (which is bar none, the coolest in all of motorsports) with cooler camera angles (one of those high speed zip line cameras above the riders and covering the length of the start....
come to think of it, just better camera angles PERIOD. They need to do a better job of showing just how steep the hills are, how big the bumps are, how angled the corners are, how fast the riders are going and how deep the ruts are on TV. As is, TV makes the tracks look to easy and makes it look like the riders are going slow.
They need to put the speed, RPMS, Gear, throttle and braking meters etc on the screen. (Like they do in MotoGP). Imagin an on board with Reed (or even a general camera view of the battle), while he's right on Dungey...and at the top of the screen you can see, side by side, the gear they are in, their RPMs, how hard on the throttle/brakes they are, their speed etc....this makes it interesting for the casual fan.
Someone mentioned heart rate monitors, I like that idea...because the motor doesn't do all the work.
Anyway, if there was some way of doing a better job of showing just how rough/hard the tracks are, how fast the riders are going, how hard the riders are working, and just plain how awesome the sport is...that would help the TV audience.
On second thought...I'm not sure I want the sport to go to the next level....I like it being a "niche" sport....so scratch those ideas....
IMO
1=25,
2=24
3=23
Give a bonus 1 for the overall winner.
Throw out each riders worst single moto of the year.
Since we have only had very few perfect seasons this is a reasonable dominant season outcome:
Full dominant series = 600, throw out worst moto for 575, + all bonus points=599
Full season of 2nds = 576, throw out worst moto for 552.
Win margin of only 47 for the most part guarantees that there will be a race to earn the championship at the last round.
From experience this format makes for really tight points battles. It rewards consistency as well as stand out performance but not so much that it grossly skews the points.
If the difference from 1st to 2nd is 5 points. Say 1st= 25 and 2nd= 20. After just 5 moto wins a rider could just sit one out, or DNF and still retain the point lead.... Or keep racing and have at least a 25 point lead after just 5 motos.
Although they earned it, I am tired of seeing championships won before the final event.
"Strike the matches"
er
"turn on the flames"
er
"ignite the torches"
That would be awesome!
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