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I like the change up, wish there wasn’t so much down time but other than that I’m cool with it. Good change of pace IMO
And to the people bitching, don’t watch until the nationals come on then. Problem solved.
"The Triple Crown event isn't perfect, but if they could give the racers more track time, and award points for each of the main events - or, at a minimum some bonus championship points for winning any of the mains outright - it would probably be more popular."
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The track sucked because it was too one lined, so that made it tougher to see better action. I think if they had this format on either of the first two races, we would have had better racing.
I think the ultimate would be 2 mains each round with full points and maybe then just bonus for overall to top ten as well, just like 10 - 1 for top ten
Appeared to be Feld's version of an insurance policy to guarantee that chaos . All about making money and keeping more viewers engaged for the whole 3 hour broadcast... Will be interesting to see if they continue this for the other Triple Crown events..
I liked the triple crown in theory, I just personally would like to see it on a gnarly track . (Ex: Houston last week)
All just preference but I would like to see an extra championship point (1) awarded to each main event winner on the triple crown nights, even if its small it should be worth a little something-something.
I did the math on all the times.
At A1, there was a total of 78 minutes of racing.
At A2, there was a total of 70 minutes of racing.
So, at a minimum they should get part of the LCQ in the broadcast. Maybe give at least 2-3 minutes of LCQ highlights, if not show the whole thing. They could show it on delay.
The hard part is all the gaps.
At A1, there was a 6 minute gap between 250 Heat 1 and 250 Heat 2. 8 minutes between 250 H2 and 450 H1. 6 minutes between 450 H1 and 450 H2. Then 16 minutes between 450 H2 and 250 LCQ. Only 3 minutes between the LCQ's. Then 21 minutes before each main.
At A2, there was a 10 minute gap between 250 Main 1 and 450 Main 1. Then a ridiculous 32 minutes before 450 Main 1 and 250 Main 2. 32 minutes between racing just seems insane. It was another 10 minute gap until 450 Main 2. They tightened it up a little, and only a 21 minute gap between 450 Main 2 and 250 Main 3. Then 12 minutes to 450 Main 3.
" Break time
A lot of fans voiced that the breaks between races ran too long. It seemed like there were more commercials than usual. We asked Fox Sports’ Pete Richards this morning and he told us there actually weren’t more commercials than usual—any three-hour show on Fox Sports has 2 hours and 15 minutes of content and 45 minutes of commercials; this is standard TV practice. Anaheim 2 had the exact same amount of commercial time as Anaheim 1.
It probably felt like there were more commercials because they were stacked into that long break between gate drops.
The teams requested the long breaks. Feld Motor Sports’ Dave Prater confirmed that with us this morning. The teams are worried about fixing bikes between races if they have a mechanical problem. Teams had roughly 50 minutes between the end of one main and the start on another on Saturday night.
Feld is aware the breaks seemed long and will try to tighten them, but that will take some concessions from the teams."
http://racerxonline.com/2018/01/22/insight-everything-we-learned-from-t…
But it's still better than two hours of qualifiers. Remember the "semi" days? Guys like Dungey and Roczen and Tomac would come out, ride in a tiny race, then "transfer directly to the main" and disappear while we sat through semi-finals and LCQs. Who actually thought that was a good idea? Hellloooooo DVR.
In 1982, Keke Rosberg won the F1 World Championship and won one race, and that wasn't until the 14th (of 16) races, and he didn't have to win that (second would've sufficed).
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The only guys who raced less were the top dogs, who "transferred to the main" after one short race, and I always hated that anyway.
By no means do I think they need 17 rounds of this but 3, 4, 5 rounds of it, heck yeah. I wish Feld would have gave points per moto on a decreased scale (10pts-1st, 9pts- 2nd , ect) and that really would have put some underdogs like Seely into the title fight and gave a slight bonus to a rider would could sweep all 3 mains.
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