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Loved his candor on the podium when talking about the racing surface.
"It's a s***** track. " -Jett
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I saw quite a few riders complaining about it. Hunter, Marchbanks, AP. The main complaint was what, it wasn't ripped deep enough? So it got slippery and hard packed. Is that the worst thing, every track has to be ripped to China? Or am I wrong about what their complaints were?
Looked like on TV it was all mulch
The complaint is they didn't rip it deep with the mulch to mix it in. So the mulch was on top of a hard surface making it slippery.
The mulch pisses everyone off.
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Every track that uses mulch instead of saw dust is missing such an easy tweak.
Jett went into it a bit at the press conference interview. Saying they added the mulch way too late in the process; should have been a month or two earlier so it could be worked deeper into the soil rather than the top coating it ended up being.
That’s the thing: just use saw dust. Mixes in way easier and breaks down and adds life to soil way faster. Mulch will break down and help the soil in a month or two but until then exactly what they’re saying it’s total shit. Too chunky and loose for too long.
Saw dust is the secret weapon. Learned it on here and it’s the truth.
And cabinet/furniture shops will give it to you, especially if they use wood that horses can't tolerate. Walnut maybe? I forget.
matthes needs to get the track guy back on the show now
I like Jett but not that comment. Better to use more constructive language for the track guys. Marchbanks had better criticism comparing prep to prior years.
Mulch on top of hard pack sucks for sure
Or leave the wood chips and sawdust at home and just let hardpack be hardpack? I don’t understand why every track has to feature a rutty, intermediate terrain surface.
Did he mean to say “I rode the shit out of that track?”
"It's a nasty, shitty track."
-1997 Daytona SX winner, Jeff Emig.
Because there’s no way to keep the dust down on a purely hard pack track. Nobody wants to watch that or ride that, or film it trackside.
If you listen to the pulp review show the track was great. No mention of the mulch being added too late and not worked.
Miss we pulp had substance.
I hope next year they let it be as hard as a rock and dusty as f…..I believe Colorado has been in somewhat of a drought and has water use restrictions? Being on a slope probably doesn’t help moisture retention also….maybe mx sports can mulch up some of that cash they are raking in and work it into the soil….
Imagine the backlash if "what's his name" had said the same thing.
Pit Row
They did talk about the mulch and mentioned how Ferrandis calls it Mulchocross, and that he was looking for track officials to complain
These track owners can't win. If we could just leave the tracks at their normal state and have unique conditions at each event it would be really good like it was 20 years ago. I think it would go back to highlighting a rider's talent on specific tracks like it use too. But at some point, the AMA became paranoid about dust and having every track ripped as deep as possible to hold water and slow the speed down. So these tracks have to bring mulch in to mix it to help rip it as deep as possible and hold water. Much cheaper than all the soil needed. Depending on where the track is and availability of saw dust it's just easier to bring mulch and hope it breaks down. I think everyone who follows the sport knows this. I'm not throwing out breaking news. But can we have a hard packed Hangtown? A fast rocky Unadilla? A natural Iron Man and Budds? A little dust is part of the sport! Better than 2 foot ruts everywhere. At least in my opinion
It's like Tomahawk on the east coast. You take a literal rock hard piece of property on the side of a hill then try to "transform" it to loamy by dumping 18 inches of free, ground up wood chips on it.
All you ever get is a super skatey surface, and a silt pond full of mulch after the first rainstorm.
Remember the "rice hulls" at Hangtown?
What works for farming doesn't always work for motocross racing surfaces.
I disagree . I rode tomahawk yesterday. Maybe at one point it’s what you’re saying but he’s done so much with saw dust and sand the track is incredible. So much grip, good loam throughout.
It’s been saw dust for years and it’s so good.
He's only going to comment about how good the dirt was outside of the markers.
“Wait, there was mulch on the track?”
Yes but then they all said the track looked good and riders complain no matter what. I mean I get it, they work for the series. But they know why the riders were complaining about the mulch and played dumb.
You call it condor, I call it candour.
Note: In British and Commonwealth English (including South Africa), it is spelled with an "-our". In American English, it is spelled candor. Both are pronounced the same way. [1, 2]
Either way its disrespect to the track builders !!
We were there. The track looked good as a fan at least but I get what he's saying. One thing that was awesome about it was there was zero dust. It was well prepped from that aspect.
Dylan said the funniest
stuff I ever heard about a track. Interviewer said I see sticks & mulch on the track. Dylan yes they’ve added everything to make a motocross track shit. And maybe we should ask gncc riders how to ride this. Lol etc
^^This
I thought the track looked really good on TV. Still some deep ruts in some places, but guys could also change from one side to the other to try and set up a pass opportunity.
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