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Anyways, gnarly ride from him. He's only 9 points down! Anything can happen with the East/West shootout still to be raced.
As for the people who think he shouldn't have raced (i understand both arguments and he did get lucky that he was able to race), turn your complaints to the officials and not McAdoo.
If you can line up....you race.
....mad respect to Wackers. That is one TOUGH freaking kid. I can't believe he lined up after that.
Inspirational... Even bigger fan of the kid now.
But gotta agree with logic. First and foremost, dude makes a mistake on his own (as in not another rider's fault), is on the deck long enough to have the field lap him, potentially twice without the red flag (before he tries getting up), but still gets given a chance to redeem himself on an even playing field with the restart. If he has the same scale of crash nearly anywhere else on the track, he sits on the sidelines for 2 laps collecting himself before getting going. Potentially even DNF's. Either way he's not in the points. That's how I'm looking at this.
Again, tough as nails and mega props to him to lining back up, no questioning that.
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Was the bike legal weight after the race ( less the front number plate) ??
The real issue I see is the helmet thing. In F1 drivers have accelerometres to measure impact forces ion crashes and stuff. It'd be interesting to know what force when through this lid. There's no way he should have rejoined with that lid after that kind of impact.
Oh, and a new set of pants because he had the biggest balls to send it in the first corner like that, almost holeshot it
Did he actually start with the same helmet though?
He should be disqualified, period.
Having said that, I was more concerned that they let him ride after such a big impact, it looked horrific.
Even though it was an amazing ride that showed incredible bravery, grit and determination
I presume a spare lid would have to come from the pits and get through all the paddock. I don't know how long the gap was between the crash and the restart.
I am very sympathetic to the notion of 'let em ride' because once governing bodies start introducing more and more struct safety measures, then they end up strangling your sport (kinda what happened to mine). So I won't go as far as to say he shouldn't have ridden. But if your checking someone for concussion and not checking their lid... then yeah, that's a bit weird. I will give the benefit of the doubt and assume he had a new one on.
It’s the AMA that has to make the decision. There is a rule for making a mistake, going off track and gaining an advantage isn’t there?? So what’s the penalty for a catastrophic mistake causing a Restart?? He essentially lost all positions..
Nate Thrasher missed out on a podium bonus because of it too so who is chipping in to cover that?
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There is also no need to be "that kid" and make a childish personal attack on my comments.
He’s gritty
He’s a gamer
He’s Moto
He’s bad ass
He 100% should NOT have been allowed to re-start. It’s a race. You can’t make a massive mistake then be allowed to re-join at an equal level.
It’s setting a dangerous precedent where we will have championship contenders lay across the track in hopes for a re-start if shit goes sideways.
I would be pissed If I was Cooper or Lawrence. However, you can’t blame him. The rules allowed it. Don’t hate the player, hate the rules of the game.
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