Pro mx points system is F**ked up

TRAVO 67
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5/9/2018 8:32pm
If you are making the 40 man gate you haul ass on a dirt bike period and deserve some points even for beating the guy in 38th. But there should be more money involved also
jdj727
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5/9/2018 9:14pm Edited Date/Time 5/9/2018 9:16pm
TRAVO 67 wrote:
What's the point in having 40 riders on the gate if only top 20 get points. A guy can get 21 place every moto beating out...
What's the point in having 40 riders on the gate if only top 20 get points. A guy can get 21 place every moto beating out 19 OF THE FASTEST GUYS IN THE WORLD and still be tied with the guy that got 39 every weekend at the end of the season. Complete bullshit they need to pay points all the way to 40 so every guy can at least race for points
KennyT wrote:
Because if you finish 21st you are not beating 19 of the fastest guys on the planet. You are beating guys that are turning in laptimes...
Because if you finish 21st you are not beating 19 of the fastest guys on the planet. You are beating guys that are turning in laptimes 29 seconds off the leader and who fade faster than a Walmart T-shirt. There are amateur gates at Loretta’s filled with riders that would smoke places 21-40th. Maybe they don’t deserve points until they gain some speed and endurance
Obviously you’ve never raced a pro National .. so your point is invalid..Quoting KennyT
drt410
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5/9/2018 9:21pm
Yea but whats even the point? So the 27th place can score 9 points at the end of the year and come in 30th place. Woo. That gets you absolutely nothing. Being able to say I placed 29th on the year literally does nothing. You dont even want to know when you did that bad to be honest. Theres literally nothing to gain though. If your outside the top 20-25 your literally rolling every jump on the track by 15 minutes and just wasting everyones time. Not to mention guys at that end of the results usually dont even go to every race its just local to semi local guys filling out the rest of the spots. So they may score like 5 points on the year. Really doesnt make any difference whatsoever on the overall championship. Plus when fast guys crash unless theyre multiple laps down they just whip past all these guys like theyre in concrete and get into the top 15 immediately. Theres literally nothing to gain by stretching the points out there.
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5/9/2018 9:26pm Edited Date/Time 5/9/2018 9:33pm
TRAVO 67 wrote:
What's the point in having 40 riders on the gate if only top 20 get points. A guy can get 21 place every moto beating out...
What's the point in having 40 riders on the gate if only top 20 get points. A guy can get 21 place every moto beating out 19 OF THE FASTEST GUYS IN THE WORLD and still be tied with the guy that got 39 every weekend at the end of the season. Complete bullshit they need to pay points all the way to 40 so every guy can at least race for points
KennyT wrote:
Because if you finish 21st you are not beating 19 of the fastest guys on the planet. You are beating guys that are turning in laptimes...
Because if you finish 21st you are not beating 19 of the fastest guys on the planet. You are beating guys that are turning in laptimes 29 seconds off the leader and who fade faster than a Walmart T-shirt. There are amateur gates at Loretta’s filled with riders that would smoke places 21-40th. Maybe they don’t deserve points until they gain some speed and endurance
jdj727 wrote:
Obviously you’ve never raced a pro National .. so your point is invalid..Quoting KennyT
Na this is true. Those spots are usually filled out by the fast local guys at every round or people who travel to race that track. Most of these guys dont go to every race. An east coast guy may hit 3-4 east coast tracks tops if theyre out of the top 20. These arent the fastest guys in the world. Theyre guys who just show up and qualify for the open spots. Yes theyre “fast” but like a local A rider fast.

These guys usually wont touch Lorettas A or B top 10 places. Those guys will be turning pro and the top few will be top 10 riders. The rest are still the fastest guys from around the country/world not just the fast local guy to fill out a gate. I see it at southwick every year a bunch of local guys qualify and race but they get their doors blown off at Lorettas if they even qualify. Sometimes one of the top prospects will be up front for a little bit but those are top guys anywhere, the ones putting around in 25th are random locals/Ny,Ct,Pa...etc guys who can barely qualify for lorettas but show up to fill out the gate and get a chance to get lapped by the Tomacs, Dungey... The top loretta guys are racing ameteurs still but are undoubtably faster than these random locals that fill out the gates.

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