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Maybe some of y’all would spend $50-100 a seat to watch charm competitions.
Maybe you’d spend $30 for parking to watch a stranger’s cotillion.
Maybe you’d spend $9 a beer to root on your favorite racer as they try for a “Best Manners” honor badge for their sash.
Maybe you’d sit in the cold, and then in traffic, to watch time trials.
Maybe, if you were hiring racers, you’d spend a half-million bucks on the most considerate one.
But I wouldn’t.
And frankly, I think if it were the French guy on the outside, the rage over this incident would a fraction of what it is now.
Christian Craig is a good dude, a family man, and a really good racer, and I think he should’ve known better than to go wide like that (first mistake) and then attempt to race Dylan Ferrandis to the corner exit instead of chopping the throttle to dive back under him as he should have. All block passes end up looking similar to this if the racer being blocked refuses to let off the gas.
Aggressive racing is what this sport needs. We don’t know the names Damon Bradshaw, Jeff Matiasevich, Ricky Johnson, Ricky Carmichael, Bob Hannah, James Stewart, Kevin Windham, Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac, Roger DeCoster, Ryan Villopoto, or even Christian Craig, because they are/were polite.
Maybe you’d spend $30 for parking to watch a stranger’s cotillion.
Maybe you’d spend $9 a beer to root on your favorite racer as they try for a “Best Manners” honor badge for their sash.
Maybe you’d sit in the cold, and then in traffic, to watch time trials.
Maybe, if you were hiring racers, you’d spend a half-million bucks on the most considerate one.
But I wouldn’t.
And frankly, I think if it were the French guy on the outside, the rage over this incident would a fraction of what it is now.
Christian Craig is a good dude, a family man, and a really good racer, and I think he should’ve known better than to go wide like that (first mistake) and then attempt to race Dylan Ferrandis to the corner exit instead of chopping the throttle to dive back under him as he should have. All block passes end up looking similar to this if the racer being blocked refuses to let off the gas.
Aggressive racing is what this sport needs. We don’t know the names Damon Bradshaw, Jeff Matiasevich, Ricky Johnson, Ricky Carmichael, Bob Hannah, James Stewart, Kevin Windham, Cooper Webb, Eli Tomac, Roger DeCoster, Ryan Villopoto, or even Christian Craig, because they are/were polite.
The Shop
Any time someone attempts a block-pass on another racer, and the other racer doesn’t let off the gas, you end up with something like this and both often go down.
Sad part is I agree with Nerd, so now I am gonna go punch myself in the face.
Dude was out of control. He admitted as much. It's not a pass if you're both on the ground.
Block passes are part of the sport but all those names you named, they all matured and try to make clean passes so they don't end up on the ground, don't loose position, and don't have to watch their back.
If you want to watch people smash into each other, watch demolition derby or MMA. Motorcycle racing is dangerous as it is.
Your entertainment is second to rider safety.
But what about the setup on Eli's bike? That's the real story.
Watch Cooper Webb when he's protecting his position. He rides tight low lines. Works the middle to inside of the track. RACING seems to have become a lost art. ......Racing and riding, they're completely different.
I’m glad that #70 guy isn’t involved in the sport anymore. Can you imagine how awful it would be? I can’t!
And what Ferrandis said/meant is that Craig must not have heard or seen him (I think Craig definitely did hear *and* see Ferrandis), and Ferrandis was sliding out because Craig wasn’t letting off. Ferrandis fell because Craig forced the issue and Ferrandis was already committed, so Ferrandis had to carry more speed farther into the turn than he anticipated in his attempt to take Craig’s line away.
Good post, but why not posting it in the Ferrandis thread ?
At least the only positive thing is Ferrandis counts for half of the clicks this week
Fast corner like that they are both committed early on in the corner, it was only going one way from there.
Pit Row
I have no problem with what Ferandis did.
But in all seriousness he slammed the local kid on a local TLD bike, he’s gonna get booed!
All of these guys are very aware of who’s coming!
No doubt this action will get broadcasted 50 times this year
It is usually actions like that that take all the light during the commercial teasers and season recaps.
FREE NEWMANN!!
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