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You hear about quite a few guys getting hurt practicing but I often wonder how many "little" injuries from that practice regime result in the nagging injuries that end up causing a bigger wreck on race day?
Either you don't know how to read or you don't have the intellectual capacity to grasp a concept that has a bit of subtlety to it.
Inference is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
Ask Ivan Tedesco about the pace they run now-a-days.
try it out sometime, bro.
no need to be a hard-on all the time
I respect and admire Dungey but he is about the same speed as Reed and Reed wasn't there with Carmichel and Stewart.
RV would run with Carmichel and Stewart. Dungey just seems to be able to finish at a click below the top speed. Seems pretty smart though.
I don't want to turn this into a two vs four thread but at least in sx the bikes have gotten faster on a different type of track and the injuries end up being catostophic.
Maybe I am a dickhead, but I can grasp the idea that not every situation in racing is black or white.
To run at the top of the class and keep up with the top guys today requires more speed and more risk than it did in the old days.
Pit Row
I think it's a combination of the level of competiton, power of bikes and bad luck
I was responding to the statement that the injuries were from a new rapid pace that left little room for error. I just don't think the pace is any faster than it was a few years ago when Stewart and Carmichel were going at it.
All that and a bit of bad luck mixed in
To say the carnage happening in our sport is "bad luck" is about the same as saying the same about someone getting gored while running with the bulls.
To say the level of competition is higher now than in the late 70's (Smith, Hannah, Distefano, Tripes, Pomeroy, Weinert, Howerton) or the mid-80's (Ward, Bailey, Glover, Johnson, Lechien, O'Mara,) is absurd.
Track design? Please. Look back at some of the tracks in the mid to late 80's. The obstacles were just silly. Jumps with sharp peaks and none of the long rounded landings we see on every double or triple. If you watch one the amazing thing about them is how little they appear to have any flow. the riders hammered through them the best they could and it was often who made the least mistakes that cost them momentum.
Now the tracks feature doubles and triples with long landings and everybody but the Asterick cart jumps them. The main challenge for the track builders is to keep the bikes from reaching the warp speeds they can get to so easily. No, I don't think it is a track design problem.
The reason for the "dark year" is that the riders are no longer limited by the technology. The bikes are too fast.
For the first time ever Dungey sat out part of the season. RV and Reed's season ended early. Stewart battled injuries and still is and Canard is recovering from almost losing his career.
The pace and technology of the bikes is at such a high level it is almost unobtainable to stay at. I pray that this isn't a trend we will continue to see after this elite batch of 250 talent jumps to the big bike class.
This year there's a lot more guys going the same speed which leaves no room for error cause there's 4 guys right behind you instead of just one.
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