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I should know better by now than to meander into non-motocross related topics. The law will continue to do its thing, regardless of your attitude and perception of its role in society. I am extremely grateful that Justin Barcia appears to be OK. That was certainly not a demonstration of negligence. Just a demonstration of unpreparedness. The whole sequence of events was just a complete lack of coordination and protocol. Even the person trying to lift Barcia’s bike, for example. That person should never touch another downed motorcycle again until they’ve spent an entire week practicing whatever the fuck it...

It seems like nothing major is going to change with safety in this sport until a factory rider dies on the track. I still have flashbacks to Alessi's lifeless body lying on the track at Red Bud getting landed on and ran over multiple times. Obviously this Barcia situation was unavoidable, but the response was completely pathetic.

Astars medic just plain didn’t see Barcia down when he went to Mookie. What baffles me is the dumbass track worker that can’t pick up a bike being more worried about picking up bikes when he SEES a rider that is a rag doll and isn’t waiving over a medic. Fuck the bike…and the race…a rider could be dying.

I just think it’s interesting folks are screaming gross negligence on feld for the response time to barcia. While in here it’s ’cost of doing business’

This thread reminds me of the Rich Taylor thread, except all of the same participants have completely opposite views.

Taking a tree away from a jump doesn’t mean “cut all trees down”, there’s a perfect middle ground in slightly altering the track

Keep the tree, move the track. Promoters are stupid.

lol, ok, 40? 30? 10? What ever the number is, doesn’t change that it’s no different then a tree off the side of the track, but the comments from most are the exact opposite. LACR=riders fault, Loretta’s=tracks fault. Explain the difference? Edit, looked at the thread with Rich’s statement, he said 30’, my mistake.

I can't wrap my head around the mentality of "he made a mistake and hit the tree" or "shit happens". These dudes are racing at the highest amateur level. Of course shit happens. That's why the tree shouldn't be there to begin with. Until promoters get into the routine of making tracks safe FOR when shit happens, tracks will keep getting sued. This mentality has gone through every form of car and motorcycle road racing 30 years ago. The sport is dangerous enough as it is.

arguing about an opinion is stupid. Steve thinks of it one way. You think if it another. Why are you arguing with someone that isn’t Steve about his opinion? It doesn’t matter. Hes allowed to have his, you’re allowed to have yours.

Pretty cool that Aidan knew all the details about making power on his bike:

Gotta love when the anti cancel culture crowd starts participating in cancel culture.

lmfao, I'm convinced our sport cant reach a professional level. Were the equivalent of high school. A high school with too much money lol. good day sophomores

Please, let's all listen to the guy that lives where 0.000000094% of the US population lives, he definitely has a pulse on what happens in the nation...