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If Tomac misses A2 this weekend, will you be rooting for a 'drop three rounds' championship this time next week?
Give it a few more rounds when a few more top riders drop out and we are left with one good guy...then maybe people will be on board.
Or maybe turn it into an eSports championship.
Or have holograms go around the track.
Or...
If we arent going to allow a drop, then we should have a true manufacturers (or team) championship that counts for something.
Right now, Eli gets a hangnail and the bike sits and the team doesnt care and we as fans suffer. If the Team Title had some merit and was relevant they would hire a rider and put him on the bike.
Does the tortoise or the hare win the race? Do you want riders to lay up on speed so as not to ever crash and be consistent enough to amass the most points, or let her rip and win the most races knowing that the risk is higher of a win or crash trying? I may have misunderstood and thought that this was an extreme sport, not a calculated one.
Perhaps Tomac should have been champ last year, and Bradshaw too over Stanton? And MC champ on the Suzuki?
Johnny, you got some whacky ass ideas!
No semis, no lcq's, dropped scores and only seeing the top 10 riders on the track is all you are interested in. All less racing than we currently have.
I honestly think you should leave.
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They keep pushing this whole more points to the middle agenda so that would have tightened things up considerably more than likely for the usual 5-10 place guys. Would have made a DNF less devastating. I think the whole idea was to keep it as tight and as exciting as possible down to Vegas.
BUT...
Yes, our sport needs something like this. It's not the "pussyfication" of our sport, it's realizing that the stakes are greater now. Go back and watch a race from the 80s that were so manly and tough and watch how slow they are going through the technical sections. A mistake back then wouldn't automatically put you out of the championship race. Now, the consequence of a mistake is often injury.
I would love to see this rule for 2 reasons:
1. it would diminish the consequence of a mistake, thus allowing racers to actually race without so much concern for not making a "big" mistake. So many of you same guys complained that Dungey would never go all out, that he held back. Well, hell, that's what the rules reward.
2. it would keep riders from rushing back too soon after injury, especially head injuries. If a guy is in the championship hunt right now and gets a concussion during practice, do you really think he's going to play it safe and stay home? Hell no. That will put him and the other riders in more danger.
The fact is, even throwing out the worst 2, the best guys will still rise to the top.
Why not let the fans pick the Champion?
1. You must at least race every event. No staying home and mailing it in.
2 this rule ends 3 rounds from the final.
3 Dungey would have smoked these guys, all these guys this year.
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