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It's the final race of the season, and Roczen goes down!
Roczen is limping around the track, trying to salvage a few points to secure the championship.
He only has to pass a couple of riders.
Oops, Webb just lapped him
Game over
Webb wins the championship by lapping Roczen
Too bad
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Second offense = Fine
Third offense = You don’t get heat races. You have to qualify from the LCQ.
Fourth offense = 2 race suspension
If you get pulled over for running a red light you could tell the cop I didn’t see it, doesn’t usually work though.
Take a page from MotoGP or even better, read Valentino's Biography, he explains lappers and how to deal with them.
By thinking ahead and anticipating the scenario one may find themselves in towards the end of the race one may enter the last two laps better prepared. Roczen had choices that he never even thought of. He could have moved Dean out of the way sooner, it's risky but it was an option. Roczen could have let Webb by (sooner) and followed him into the lappers, Webb would have had to deal with Ferrandis and Wilson and all Roczen would then need to worry about is making the last minute pass for the win.
It's racing, its exciting and in my opinion, last night Webb was coming on strong and even without lappers I'd say Webb would have Picked Roczen's pocket.
Ken's mature enough to move on and focus on Rnd 4.
One changes the the course of the race , and the other doesnt.
Explain please.
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Im pulling for Tomac, Brayton and Mookie. Roczen is not my guy. I just call bullshit when I see it. The AMA docked him 6 positions. This was no different than Reeds bullshit in 2016 on Dungey. I was never a Dungey fan either, but that was BS as well.
Lights on the bar pad or bike would work till someone showed the wrong rider the light....then what happens???
Can’t ride the “race line” so now if 1-2 are battling they get to play follow the leader in the “race line” ok but that could be the sections where 2 is faster then 1 so you just f*cked 2nd outta the possibility of passing (like a lapper does) essentially causing the same issue just with the rule book.
How about the mechanics write “1st/2nd 2seconds back” on the pit board? Or some variation....watch the blue flags? Something like that. It boils down to communication, that’s where the issue lies. Coms in the helmets could work too for this. But some way to get the point across (stay in your race, but move for the leaders they’re coming quick)
I don’t think there’s too many riders.....put a 15 rider cap on the main gate, then there is the dungey air shock fiasco happens in your heat. now your in the lcq and you get the b-main cause well, we only take 15 riders. So you’re giving up 18+ points to whoever wins.....hope the championship doesn’t come down to 18 or less......
Any rider smart enough to seriously hold up Dungey/Roczen knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
All this BS aside Dean Wilson shouldn’t have been a LAPPER. He was doing what he does and the real race caught him. His speed and skill level are where this should never have happened.
What kind of helmet do you wear?
The other flag is a please get out of the way for the faster riders coming up behind you.
#15 defiantly messed up holding up the front runners. #94 defiantly messed up jumping the red cross flag. Putting riders/track crew safety at risk should hold huge repercussions. Not getting out of the way for faster riders should have mild repercussions.
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