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At the time Star racing Yamaha was in its infancy and operated out of albuquerque.
And FYI, at 61 sometimes adrenalin still gets the better of me, and I'm sure the guy's riding with me don't feel safe around ME, so age is no certain panacea to mindset.
Damn could you imagine full gates again?
Racing would dramatically lower my overall life-seat-time.
Listen to Daniel Blair, he is like 33 and constantly talks about how beat up his whole body is from a mediocre (sorry DB!) racing career.
I order parts/gear about 2x/mos... over the course of the next 30 years of riding I will help keep the sport going more than a guy who races hard for 5 years then hangs up his boots.
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However, yes, we should ditch all the subsections of classes. 50, 65, 85, 125, 250 (either stroke), and a 450 class.
That's it. Each moto could be longer, gates would be far fuller. If you are a squid, you'll get last cause guys in your class will be stupid fast. Oh well.
That said, off-road racing is picking up a lot. Here in IA, we have a solid turnout at almost all of our harescrambles. That's just the local scene. Look at NEPG and GNCC racing. Just this weekend alone in Florida, it looks like there will be close to 600 riders for the national enduro. And believe me, when the day is done those guys will be ready to be done riding!
I really think splitting up the racing into 2 Days would be a good start , instead of it all being Done on a Saturday or Sunday, devide it into half Saturday and Half sunday , than both days can be shorter and possibly lengthen practice and more laps if wanted/neeeded.
Ive seem this come up before and the response right away is that this idea cuts into the tracks wallet. By having to pay workers an extra day and work more themselves etc
But i guess how bad do people want to see improvements,
Im pretty sure there are track owners that see these threads and it seems like its always the same stuff being said over and over ,
And people are literally saying they are leaving and going to try off road etc, and planning to leave motocross.
So if i was a track owner i would be trying some new stuff asap , and i cant remember if i said this or not but i know ive thought it ,
For people that say they are worried about jumps and danger, i wonder if its ever been tried to Have an option lane, kinda like a joker lane per se , that goes around some of the Bigger jumps,
Where one way has the bigger jump and one has no jump or really easy jumps. And for beginner class and vet c ,and SR classes etc , they put up some hay bales and those classes take the easy lanes.and A and B classes take the lanes with the bigger jumps
That way the beginners arent even tempted to do jumps that they shouldn't be doing anyway.
2 days makes sense, since in most cases the insurance policy costs the same for a weekend as a day, but yes the labor is a real overhead, although tracks shoot themself in the foot by adding blind jumps that each require a flagger and are the source of most ambulance rides as well as deter lower level rider's from showing in the 1st place, and continually injure rider's (customer's) who often never return to the sport. Great business model to "kill off" your best customer's
I feel like you are reading my notes, as I am proposing a track layout where every jump has 3 choice's, the hard line, the easy line (less jump face angle) and the bypass (which already exists due to the dozer's going around the jump faces when tilling. Possibly make everyone satisfied and increase entries with this method.
Pay no attention to the naysayers, there will be plenty of them whenever changes are proposed. If ideas can't be tossed around on a forum then what good are forums?
You are boggling my mind...HOW?
When we do a race I figure we have about $3500 to 4000 invested before we drop the first gate. That includes EMT's, labor, trophies, fuel and insurance. Add to that equipment maint and repairs if needed.
Most tracks I know need 100 to 150 riders to break even.
Now also subtract rider payouts. None of this includes property tax and insurance, mowing and general upkeep. Not to mention money spent on heavy equipment.
We all race and ride too. We would love to have less classes. But as I said, everyone wants some classes eliminated, just not theirs. We would love to have less, but promoters are afraid to piss any riders off. They need all of them they can get.
And you need that many classes so all the riders have the option of riding multiple classes.
Saturday and Sunday split racing will never work. Too many people work Saturdays and it greatly increases the tracks expenses, without increasing income.
Many of you have good ideas and make great points.
But there's no easy answer. If there was we wouldn't be in this situation.
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