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So many posts and not many have highlighted that the only victim was Eli
4.16 Flags and Lights
It is the rider’s responsibility to be aware of their surroundings at all times while on track. Safety is a main priority and the riders must obey all official signals and directions given to them. Any rider failing to do so may be penalized.
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RACE RULES & PROCEDURES
a. Solid Blue Flag:
1. Indicates you are about to be overtaken by faster riders.
2. When conditions allow, move out of the fast line. Once out of the fast line, hold your line, do not ride erratically and do not impede the faster rider’s progress.
3. Riders disregarding the blue flag may be penalized at the discretion of Race Direction.
My point was that that coming up on a lapper that is in your way is no different than any other obstacle on the track...just use those awesome skills to deal with it or don't and pay for it in points and dollars. In this case, being right has nothing to do with it.
The Shop
Extra point for impetuous and Jussie. These dead horse threads have been fairly entertaining the last few weeks.
Maybe you've never lapped anyone before?
He pulled his head right in last night.
He is, and I expect a racer to race.
Had Barcia followed VF, Tomac may have come into play.
As we have seen many times, when a slower rider blocks/ slows a faster rider, in the process of getting around the slower rider, the next rider has an opportunity to pass all of them.
If Barcia had followed VF to the next corner, he may have still been blocked and then passed by Tomac.
Nobody can say that Barcia would have dealt with VF at the next corner because it is unknown.
That's the type of longer risk-management decisions that the guys with consistent results are able to mix in along with the split-second ones.
If you knew that passing VF would put Barcia’s championship run at risk, why didn’t you tell him? You didn’t know that before the race, during the race, or at the moment that Barcia tried to pass VF.
What we do know is VF got the blue flag and had already been passed. Barcia, with Tomac at his 6, expected VF to clear the racing line because he was still being shown the blue flag.
That is a fair expectation.
Pit Row
Barcia took himself out by being impetuous.
He'd already hit Cianciarulio and Roczen, fallen off the track when Webb pressured him and then, riding panicked with Tomac behind him destroys both their races and knocks Friese a yard to the right.
Man has no racecraft.
He has ability, but in the grown up class of 450 riders discipline is also required.
How long has he been on the big bike now; 7 or 8 years?
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