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One thing I don't understand is why doesn't Lorettas have any jumps? Kinda silly that the biggest race of the year doesn't have any jumps worth a crap.
All they have to do is put in a couple of big table tops or decent size doubles.
When the pee wees race just route them around the big jumps. Not that big a deal. Let us not forget that every person there qualified at their local tract to get there, pee wees, C riders and the pros. I am pretty sure those tracks have some nasty jumps and they all seemed to make it.
But Lorettas just looks like a back yard track. These kids are probably used to hitting 100 foot triples at their local tracks.
It's weird. It would be like playing college or minor league baseball then stepping up to the majors and they move the fence in 100 feet and slow pitch...
This is supposed to be the Superbowl for the amateurs yet that track barely qualifies as a back yard track.
The Shop
My son's favorite track is Oakhill and there are not many huge jumps there but that sand tilled up deep with water sure is pretty sweet.
I wouldn't want that out there either.
Corner for dough
And the "show" is what actually pays the bills.
No show
No sponsors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKk7YqYUIs&sns=em
McElrath (and possibly Matt, not even going to attempt to spell his last name right now) was doing a quad at what I believe was at the end of the Ten Commandments. It was fairly big and very technical. That's what the big jump options should be at a track like this: Technical, so that only the B/ A guys, and maybe some of the former Pro's in 25+ and 35+ are attempting. Not a 125ft triple step up with a nice, tempting take off that gives a false sense of security as to how big the jump is. At a race like Loretta's, where even the back-of-the-pack C Classer's balls grow ten sizes bigger, that could spell disaster.
You have to keep in mind that LL's is not a Pro Race. It's an Amateur National.
Pit Row
I think that the track looks plenty technical for an AMATEUR race. The best guy will win no matter what the conditions. Anything that will decrease the number of injuries out there, the better IMO.
If you want to watch jumps, I heard some X Games thing is going on another channel.
I never enjoyed the track much, but it wasn't because of a lack of a challenge, it was because it kicked my ass for 20 minutes straight 3 times a week.
That track is way more more vicious than these video's can show.....even when two of your moto's are on the same day, it's almost like riding a different track, with all the bikes on it. I'm getting arm pump just remembering that shit....
Corner for dough, jump for show I guess
I think "JUMPS" is what makes It motocross, is it not. With out jumps.....................it would be flat track, speedway or TT
Anyway, you nut swingers know what we mean, no need to psycho-analyze everything to the point that the original point is a distant memory.
LL's needs 1 or even 2 jumps that act as seperators or talent coordinators, whatever you want to call them.
MX is not only about corners.
As far as nothing to separate guys, I know one of our supported 65 riders came from 18th to 1st in the final moto of the week and ran a lap 6 seconds faster than anyone else on the final lap of the moto to pass from 3rd to 1st and win. Something allowed him to separate himself from the field.
Loretta's is one of the least favorite tracks I have ever raced (most likely results driven and the fact of being a ball of nerves), but saying it isn't challenging I would disagree with.
Finally, keep in mind, the 42 riders on the gate there are all top of their class at their local tracks. They are the ones already jumping everything imaginable, so pretty doubtful they all wouldn't be pulling the trigger on "the big triple" at Loretta's if it existed.
I prefer more healthy riders, great passing and racing, and letting the challenging bumps, ruts, dirt, and layout decipher who is a "man".
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