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I didn’t see anything posted, but was he docked positions? This says he finished 4th, broadcast had him as 8th, now it shows him 19th. He was involved in that first turn crash, he got bumped off the track and sent into the next lane. He made a right, rolled that section while a few guys caught up, let a few pass then took off around 5th or 6th place.
So back to Brandon, what’s his story?
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Pretty sure he knew at that point he would be either shuffled back or DQ’d positions.
Pit Row
Edit: here, I’ll help you out. Maybe the penalty was justified, but I don’t know that the safest option would have been quickly trying to get back to where he went off and get shmuck’d by the leaders coming around.
https://youtu.be/Sz1ndt7Lg3s
(Can’t embed in a post edit from my phone)
https://youtu.be/MfhHeNMxKT8?start=34
And, in keeping with the total lack of consistency with the AMA and FIM, how was Hartranft given this penalty while Baby Jesus aka AC92 got nothing in Oakland for totally cutting the first turn and piling up some other guys?? It is rule/punishment inconsistencies like these that really make the sport seem janky at times.
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I'm still very impressed with the ride he put in once he settled in. Came out of the blue, would be interesting to hear his story.
Like others have said, it’s really sad to see how differently top guys and these privateers get treated in these situations. And the only reasons I can think of why it is like that is that top guys and their teams (and fans) raise hell about it and make you look bad, while the privateers can do nothing so it’s easy to go tough guy on them. The other reason is money. They are scared to mess up a championship battle with penalties because it could have a straight impact on their income from the races.
It should have been a time penalty.
He did not cause the first turn pile up, I am sure he did not choose to get pushed across the track into another lane.
The picture here is a freeze frame, if he spent just a second or two taking his time to turn around and go back to the start straight there is every chance the leaders are hitting those jumps and someone cleans him up.
If he darts of the track on to the concrete, every chance he ends up on his arse on the ice like surface.
Again he did not choose to cut the track, he was punted out there along with half the field, yet we have seen riders cut the inside of the first turn with no assistance and stay on the gas with no worry.
The inconsistencies with the penalties is crazy.
Actually as I was watching and Cantrell was up there, my thoughts were- Jeff Emig won’t know anything about him and will probably confuse him with Jordon Smith at some point (and Ralph did I think?)
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