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6/9/2018 5:50pm
Recently at a local track racing vintage and post vintage there was discussion of what was cheating and what was fair. I would like to see input based on the pole here. Everyone on the gate has the same view. Fire away boys!
And this is my first pole post so I probably did it wrong... be gentle
And this is my first pole post so I probably did it wrong... be gentle
Poll
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A pole is not going to help you solve the complex and important question.
Not sure a poll here is going to help much either.
And timing the gate isn't cheating; it's guessing!
That was a confusing pole. Wanna hear a funny story ? course you do, othg race at Carlsbad, me and a guy named Kirby are running the starting gate. Kirby notices the guys close are watching him and not the gate and says to me "these guys are watching me not the gate !, lets fuck with em ! I'm in. Charge it Kirby the next moto's coming up. He's dropping the gate, and I'm there to help pick it up for the 2nd gate. So he does the normal deal, steps in the the box fakes like he's gonna stomp on the gate, and stops 3" above it. Of course the 2 or 3 guys watching him ram the gate, and the second they do he drops the gate. Then we get it up for the second gate and monkey see monkey do, wammo 3 more guys into the gate, high 5's all around.
We had a local guy here that would always sit back when the starter would come down the line acting like he was fiddling with his goggles. In reality, he was stalling so he could line up about 8’ behind the gate. After the guy staged us all, he’d snick it in gear and start rolling toward the gate after the card went sideways. By the time the gate dropped he was doing 5 mph or so. He got a LOT of starts that way. I watched him do it at LL regionals with excellent results.
Anyway, this one doghouse guy told me somewhere along the way his method was, watch Darrel. The gate isn’t going to drop until Darrel hits it. He’d hold the gate 6 to 8 seconds waiting on Darrel to either hit the gate or have to stop, then WHAM, off we’d go.
Darrel usually won anyway though.
In the pic I am the guy at the far right
I do recall at Carlsbad, one guy would back up and put his rear tire ON TOP of the log (when Frank T.
didn't catch him). Just barely on the downside, holding the front brake.
That bastard nailed the holeshot everytime he did that.
Pit Row
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