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Fuel gate
Ignition and/or EFI mapping changes and/or placing some kind of restrictive material in airboxes to pass sound checks.
Chains in air boxes for post race weigh-ins
Factory riders getting as much time as they need to fix a bike before the start of a moto (example: Jeff Stanton at gatorback '89)
The elephant in the room is that if the transponders can not be relied upon to judge a close finish, than how can they possibly be relied upon to decide fast laps for qualifying.
BRING BACK RACING TO QUALIFY!!!!!!
You guys live and die by the transponders it's funny as I remember a mud race a few years ago where the scores were less then stellar and they "stepped in" to fix them. I remember watching James being lapped quite a few times only the next day to see he was awarded like 6th? Transponders aren't perfect.
No one in that tower did this because of some bias. They did it because they were working off what they saw.
You can blame whoever and bitch at me about it, fine. I am simply pointing out the fact that those people working there did what they did because they strongly thought it was correct. It's a thankless job and hard enough they don't look for trouble.
The Shop
You did not remark on the quality of their decisions......you said that something is either a sport or a business but can't be both.
I merely pointed out that you are wrong.......pro sports are businesses as well.
Arbitration only. Been there done that.
I kinda look at it like football. They review the play and sometimes comes out different. Sucks but obviously they felt it was needed.
b. To be considered as having completed a lap, the rider and his
motorcycle must cross the plane of the checkered flag.
At any rate, since the rulebook says that close finishing order is determined by either finish line video or by scorekeeper's decision if no video is available, they followed their own rules exactly if the finishing order was determined by the scorekeepers decision.
If indeed the FIM (as THEY are the ones who made the decision) felt they made the right decision and the have something to support it, how are they wrong?
Now you're just making shit up.
How is a 3rd party that puts up money independently to a rider that is not an employee of Feld in any way shape or form a "Partner".
That isn't reality.
That's like saying I am partners with The American Heart Association because I sponsored some folks in a walkathon.
Cyclenews.com Photo
You might have seen GEICO's commercials on TV and banners around the track.
And I'm sure Mike LaRocco (GEICO) and Eric Kehoe (Honda manager) would like to see a red bike in the main vs a nobody Kawi.
I agree about your eyewitness account, Weston should have been in the main.
The AMA needs to decide to use the transponders, or not. It will only cause doubt and confusion within the sport.
Bad call by the AMA.
The teams are not racing for outside sponsor money.....they are presenting the team to any outside sponsor as worth their promotional investment.
That doesn't give the sponsor any rights after they sign the check.
At no point does that give them any legal recourse you are way off base since no such relationship exists beyond your extrapolation here.
I realize you aren't going to agree so I will stop here, bookmark this for the end of the season so you can tell me how "wrong" I am.....lol.
http://www.racerxonline.com/2012/02/15/faith-a-faithful-fill-in-for-gei…
Big difference.
Pit Row
In addition, the system currently is set up so that a race could be scored entirely manually, without benefit of electronics. The electronics help them to put out results faster, and offer more data, but the fail safe is scorekeepers.
Looks like Wet Paint is applying for a job as a FIM Visual Director. Note to FIM, don't fuck with electronics, they are everwhere and they will get you.
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