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I want to hear your disqualification stories (if you have any) and if you think they were justified or not. I'll start.
Before I got into mx I used to race Fourcross which is basically the mountain bike equivalent of bmx racing but with only 4 guys in each race and the tracks tend to be rougher and have logs and rocks and things in them, the tracks look more like skicross/boardercross tracks. It was the first round of the national championship and there was a long straight leading into a big 180 bowl turn with a generous amount of room left on the flat inside. I executed textbook passes to take the win in 2 of my heat races by using the inside line to cut the turn tight and bank off the end of the berm, taking away the leading riders line causing them to slow down and give up the position. It came to my semi final and I was in 2nd and went to make the same move but the guy leading was a bit faster and more aggressive than those that I had passed previously and he didn't slow down when he saw me coming for the inside. By the time I realised he wasn't going to back out of it it was too late for me to do anything and I couldn't turn any tighter on the flat part at the base of the berm so I ended up T-boning him. It probably looked similar to when Alessi T-boned Tickle last year.
He went flying off the track and I stayed on but my feet unclipped from my pedals and by the time I was back going, 3rd place had passed both of us and moved into the lead meaning that my attempted overtaking maneuver had gained me absolutely no positions. I crossed the finish line in 2nd but then got told by a race official that I had been disqualified from that race for aggressive riding meaning that I would be in the B final rather than the A final. In hindsight I should have just stayed behind the guy and finished in 2nd and I would still have transferred to the A final but when you're there in the heat of the moment you just want to go for the win and when you're holding the final transfer spot there's always the worry that 3rd place could get you and you would not transfer. The guy was pretty pissed at me because I caused him to miss the A final. I ended up beating him by winning the B final and then he went on to dominate the championship for the rest of the year.
Fourcross is an aggressive sport much like Supercross and in my eyes it was just a racing incident, I had no intentions of taking the guy out but I can imagine it probably looked really dirty from a spectator point of view so I guess they were probably justified to DQ me. Unfortunately there was no video evidence to review.
Before I got into mx I used to race Fourcross which is basically the mountain bike equivalent of bmx racing but with only 4 guys in each race and the tracks tend to be rougher and have logs and rocks and things in them, the tracks look more like skicross/boardercross tracks. It was the first round of the national championship and there was a long straight leading into a big 180 bowl turn with a generous amount of room left on the flat inside. I executed textbook passes to take the win in 2 of my heat races by using the inside line to cut the turn tight and bank off the end of the berm, taking away the leading riders line causing them to slow down and give up the position. It came to my semi final and I was in 2nd and went to make the same move but the guy leading was a bit faster and more aggressive than those that I had passed previously and he didn't slow down when he saw me coming for the inside. By the time I realised he wasn't going to back out of it it was too late for me to do anything and I couldn't turn any tighter on the flat part at the base of the berm so I ended up T-boning him. It probably looked similar to when Alessi T-boned Tickle last year.
He went flying off the track and I stayed on but my feet unclipped from my pedals and by the time I was back going, 3rd place had passed both of us and moved into the lead meaning that my attempted overtaking maneuver had gained me absolutely no positions. I crossed the finish line in 2nd but then got told by a race official that I had been disqualified from that race for aggressive riding meaning that I would be in the B final rather than the A final. In hindsight I should have just stayed behind the guy and finished in 2nd and I would still have transferred to the A final but when you're there in the heat of the moment you just want to go for the win and when you're holding the final transfer spot there's always the worry that 3rd place could get you and you would not transfer. The guy was pretty pissed at me because I caused him to miss the A final. I ended up beating him by winning the B final and then he went on to dominate the championship for the rest of the year.
Fourcross is an aggressive sport much like Supercross and in my eyes it was just a racing incident, I had no intentions of taking the guy out but I can imagine it probably looked really dirty from a spectator point of view so I guess they were probably justified to DQ me. Unfortunately there was no video evidence to review.
Heck of a day.
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Kid mid pack crashed on a double and was hurt on lap 1, I was leading the kid in second right on me, we made it around before the red flag came out. The rest of field was red flagged and Prendes and I were just flat on it racing hard. Came up to the yellow, didn't double but was wide open up to it, got on the binders over the top of the jump to see a plus flag I couldn't see before...still raced by (didn't jump) Prendes followed did the same thing. Racing our brains out the remainder of the track we were both mad when that red was waving. We thought the race was over because we completed 3 laps of a 4 lap race. We got back to a full gate and was notified we were both disqualified for being unsafe when EMT and downed rider was on the track.
I didn't think it was justified at the time, but I'm sure it was justified. My mindset at the time was "you lose races when the yellow flag comes out" because all the kids in AMA d5 would just blitz right up to you and wax by you with no retalliation from officials. I found out that OIR wasn't D5 and you slow down to almost a creep when going by a plus flag.
It really taught me to use my head and slow down around a yellow flag.
@hvaughn88: my job in 7th grade basketball was to just go in with a few minutes left and foul people at the end to stop them from scoring so much. Otherwise I warmed the bench.
Towards the end of the race some goon pulled back onto the track right infront of me, I tried to take avoiding action and turned in early completely launching my kart over the kerb and side swiped this other guys kart pretty hard. They didn't like this and decided to black flag me. Me and one other guy were both wearing black racing suits with white helmets and the race was at night under floodlights so not the best visibility and they ended up black flagging this other guy because they thought it was me. By the time they realised their mistake the race was over and I got to keep my position
Every year my local off-road series had a big series-ending event. It was a gnarly, 100 mile, (typically) 5-6 hour off-road race (its now called the OMA Moose Run, I think).
About half way through the race, I cracked my clutch cover and lost all of my oil in my KX250. My dad is the one that noticed it at the pit, so we unloaded his monster KX500 and I finished the race (mind you I was 19 and maybe 140 pounds). I had no issues until I had to start it, if I had stalled it.
But yeah at the end, of course they told me my finish would not count, and I was totally fine with it. I just wanted to finish the race. I still remember certain things about racing that 500 that really stand out: I could effortlessly cross nearly any nasty creek crossing, and the massive speed was fairly well masked until I had to brake for a corner.
I was getting ready to move up to a 125 class & entered both the 100 cc. class & 125 (C) class
THERE USED TO BE 70 to 100 bikes in those days in the 125cc class (C), group 1 & 2
I won the first moto in 100cc
I got 4th off the start & made one lap with the lead in 125 (C). somebody must of complained, got black flagged on lap 2... so they would let me run a 100 in the 125 C class...
also once for not wearing gloves @ motordome speedway infield supercross style track in the 125 (A) class which
Davey Coombs won... I think...
Pit Row
DQ'd from BMX for rough riding.
Red carded in soccer for pushing.
Goose egged in bull riding for hangin' knot's.
Good call, could have passed out and crashed. The cut on my arm apparently happened when I clipped the end of a flaggers flag while cutting a corner tight. He was not waving it, I just got too close to him. With all the adrenalin I never felt a thing.
So it came down to the 2nd moto at the last round of the series. He knew it was likely to go the same way and I would win so his only chance was if I crashed. It was only the two of us in our class that night so they did a split gate drop and let us go first and then another drop for the rest of the Vets.
So the two of us take off down the very long start straight. I had the inside and was pulling 1/2 a bike length on him. Going into the high-speed sweeper first turn he backed off, crossed over behind me to the inside, and then aimed straight for my front tire as I started to turn and cleaned me out good. One second I was riding my bike and the next I wasn't.
The track owner was sitting right there on his quad and saw the whole thing. He radioed to the tower and told them to black flag the guy. I didn't know this and was super pissed and intent on decking this dude. So I pick up my bike and take off knowing I was too far back but planning to kick his ass in the pits.
Apparently, they were black flagging the guy but he ignored the flag and kept going. This repeated 3 or 4 laps until they were standing in front of him trying to force him off the track. After finally getting him to stop, they told him to go pack his shit up and get off the property. His kid was in the staging area waiting for the next race so the guy went barreling in there WFO skidding out of control and almost ran a bunch of people over. By now a bunch of people are pissed and trying to force this guy to load his shit up and leave.
About this time I get the checkers and come off the track. I start removing my gear and stomping over to this guy's truck. My buddies had seen the whole deal that I hadn't and grabbed me and stopped me. Right about that time 2 sheriff's deputies cars come in the pits to break the whole thing up and get this guy out of there. Hell of a night.
Come race time I was sitting in the holding pen and she wondered in with her arm in a sling, I just held my head in shame ha. Some body did make a comment about wiping a girl out but I laughed it off
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