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https://youtu.be/YDu0HxEAfws
Start at 15:33
Man, this race sounds like an organizational disaster! It makes for hilarious content/discussion but I’m just curious how this even happens..
6 flaggers for the entire track, one of them caught sleeping, another on the wrong side of the fence and another plying on their phone all day.
No riders meeting
No referee
People racing without numbers
People skipping the starting gate entirely
Different race order and laps than advertised
No tech inspection or Rider ID’s / credentials checked
Clusterfuck staging and organization
The list goes on and on. Never change GH… “World Championship”
Start at 15:33
Man, this race sounds like an organizational disaster! It makes for hilarious content/discussion but I’m just curious how this even happens..
6 flaggers for the entire track, one of them caught sleeping, another on the wrong side of the fence and another plying on their phone all day.
No riders meeting
No referee
People racing without numbers
People skipping the starting gate entirely
Different race order and laps than advertised
No tech inspection or Rider ID’s / credentials checked
Clusterfuck staging and organization
The list goes on and on. Never change GH… “World Championship”
The Shop
Watching this, never seen the Newf before. What they say about judging a book by it's cover, would never guess he's as fast as he is by looking at him. Also, anyone else think he looks like Marx?
But putting the pro class out with the +50 125 class is inexcusable, honestly how f**king dumb do you have to be to think that's a good idea? and sure enough somebody got hurt.
Same thing goes for flaggers, you have to have the appropriate amount of flaggers. If a dodgy little track in the outskirts of Melbourne can manage it every weekend, Glen Helen at the "World" Vet Championships can
3 gates per race. Not good.
There is obviously a huge appetite for vet racing around here, maybe it could be a week long thing like Lorettas?
one thing for sure, Bud Feldkamp wants those entry fee dollahs, so maybe next year anyone over 21 will be a vet too...
I love me some Glen Helen - I ride there more than anywhere else - but they could sure put some extra money in the place and have more staffing for huge events like this in the future.
How about start by scraping the square edge rocks that give trucks flat tires off the parking area? even Pala does that...
Just listening to the archive show and I have to say the discussion was downright hilarious. To me the biggest failure sounds like the flagging. I mean the other disorganization is not ideal, but for a big event with a LOT of riders the flagging definitely needs to be on point.
Pit Row
But don’t let me stop you guys that weren’t there from complaining….
I'm racing it next year for sure.
The race next year should be 3 days to spread out the amount of riders and keep a consistent lap count for each class.
So what, there's water flowing on the track . . . It's MOTOCROSS!
This isn’t a new event. It’s been going on for years. Glen Helen bills itself as a world class facility, yet it constantly finds itself having issues like this.
I’m sure lots of people had a great time racing and that’s the point here. So it’s a success on that front.
But all these issues are avoidable - lack of a referee or rule book to enforce rules, no riders meeting, people being able to ride whatever practice they want, ambulance driving on the track during a race, gate dropping while the 30 sec card girl is on the track….they should all be addressed.
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