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reynardfan1
7/2/2017 9:32am
7/2/2017 9:32am
I just finished watching red bud and all the tracks we have visited before this in the tour need to take notes.
Red bud is always prepped perfectly, never a stupid slot car mess of mulch and mud...
Made for awesome racing and multiple lines and still the cream rose to the top...
No excuses...some tracks need to take note, this is how you do it. Millville will be amazing too...always is done well...
Red bud is always prepped perfectly, never a stupid slot car mess of mulch and mud...
Made for awesome racing and multiple lines and still the cream rose to the top...
No excuses...some tracks need to take note, this is how you do it. Millville will be amazing too...always is done well...
http://m.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Have-the-Moto-Gods-Heard-th…
I really think it's just the tracks towards the latter half of the year, they're just better.
DC
Racer X
I'm sure you have but how much thought is put into where you rip/water?
Would there be merit in really getting after it in the turns and leaving the straights quite light, to try and remove the super long balance beam ruts so the guys can move around a bit... ?
The Shop
DC
Racer X
How much grooming goes on inbeteeen Moto's?
The cool thing about the 90s was watching lines develop as the race went on...the lines would get deeper and some would get faster while other lines had to be abandoned...it also slowed the race down in the beginning and allowed for riders to get faster as the lines developed...
These guys are pegs deep in ruts on lap 1...
As to jump faces being the priority - the other long standing comment from riders and "industry" people seems to be there are too many jumps... I would agree as a fan and spectator... so remove some of the SX feel to nationals and you'll have more time to work on the rest of the track. Win/win.
"Given the number of riders complaining almost each week, I'd like to know if anyone is actually listening?"
I don't know these numbers of actual racers complaining. We hear more from the riders when the tracks are too smooth, and that makes it hard to pass. So yes, someone is listening. But you prepare for the worst from the weather, and we often get it.
We are six rounds down, six to go, good racing in both classes, low injury rate (knock on wood)... I believe those are the win/wins that matter most.
DC
Racer X
And the more we get the more we complain....
NBC Gold is awesome, pic quality is great, but jesus H christ , if i was at the races , the guy announcing the riders would be top of my 'gotta go ' list.
But the idiot team members with waiving towels 30 cm from the track and sometimes on the track needs to stop. I see zero purpose with the waiving towels. Will the riders be 2 seconds/lap slower if MX Sports removes them or what?
There have been situations where the towel/arm has almost hit an other rider.
It's ridiculous. Get them off the track.
The only people near the track should be flaggers / Marshalls / medical and emergency personal and Media people that take responsibility for their own safety (and don't endanger others, like that twat who took out Courtney Duncan last year).
For me, seeing these towel waivers / team people out around the course at US Nationals has always been a head scratcher. Why in hell is this allowed? They should only be in a pit row or designated signalling row. If a team wants spotters, let them be back behind the spectator fence. A long established 'Boys Club', I think it might come down to.
Flaggers and Officials only along the track please...
Also, are there no local people who would go pick up rocks off the track? Why so many rocks?? They serve no benefit.
Pit Row
Oh yeah, I watch all of the races. I also read all the stuff online as well. I would say the thing I don’t like now, is that they try to make every track have the best dirt, and that kind of takes away from some of the variations that tracks had in the past. If you look back to 2004 and Hangtown, that place was really hard packed. And some places were dusty, or Southwick was more sandy, but to me, now the dirt is all kind of the same. I would leave the tracks in their elements and leave them as they are.
http://racerxonline.com/2017/06/27/where-are-they-now-broc-hepler
Reese, that's a really good idea, and maybe worth a try at some point!
DC
Racer X
I rode the Castle Rock, CO track the week after the national in '82(?) and it was brutal! Prep for that national mainly consisted of cutting grass. By late in the day it was rough!
Please, please, please, no deep ripping rut fests!!!!
Why should factory teams have the advantage of all these guys spread out everywhere? They can't help the riders except in the mechanics area.
All of the waving towels really looks rinky dink.
If you only ripped and watered the turns and prepared the straights as if there was rain coming then the riders could make line choices coming into turns instead of the slot-car track stuff...
I definitely agree whatever time between Motos should be about safety.
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