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I think we should allow the Outdoor National Championship to be scored off a riders 22 best Moto scores. Each rider should be allowed to drop their 2 worst Moto scores during the season.
It is done that way in other sports and I think it would benefit Moto in two big ways:
#1: Injuries. Motocross is a dangerous sport. Riders get hurt often and they inevitably end up having to ride injured, which is neither advisable or safe. While we cannot avoid this, allowing the two Moto scores to be dropped (one full round if needed) would allow an injured rider to sit out a weekend to heal. Also, they could time the missed round before or after a break to allow a smaller, nagging injury to properly heal. (Concussions, Sprains, Small fractures, etc.) This would really help us take concussions more seriously and not push riders to come back too early. It would 100% make the sport a bit safer. (This would be prime for Musquin's knee right now as well as Plessinger's junk or Barcia's concussion)
#2: Mechanical failures. Outdoor rounds take their toll on these machines. Dropping rounds would allow a rider to not be penalized due to a bike or a mechanic's failure. Tomac could certainly use a dropped round due to that random rock hitting his master cylinder. Pro Circuit had a bad round where the motors let go. If AC or Savagty loses the title by 25 points, are they a worse rider than the guy they get beat by? It would truly become a rider's championship and the best rider would have the most points at the end. Star Yamaha had some issues last year that cost the Martin's and Webb some valuable points. I would think the OEMs would be in favor of this. We could institute a Constructors (Manufacturers) Championship as well where we tally the total points scored by a Manufacturer across all riders in every round. That would encourage top teams to keep a bigger roster and avoid a situation where a team like Factory Yamaha goes racing Outdoors with 1 guy (Webb) and would also improve contingency dollars from the OEMs for privateers and additional support to the 15-20th place riders, as their points would have a bit of significance.
***(Not very significant) #3, Two less mandatory rounds for the rider who complain about too many races on the schedule.
It is done that way in other sports and I think it would benefit Moto in two big ways:
#1: Injuries. Motocross is a dangerous sport. Riders get hurt often and they inevitably end up having to ride injured, which is neither advisable or safe. While we cannot avoid this, allowing the two Moto scores to be dropped (one full round if needed) would allow an injured rider to sit out a weekend to heal. Also, they could time the missed round before or after a break to allow a smaller, nagging injury to properly heal. (Concussions, Sprains, Small fractures, etc.) This would really help us take concussions more seriously and not push riders to come back too early. It would 100% make the sport a bit safer. (This would be prime for Musquin's knee right now as well as Plessinger's junk or Barcia's concussion)
#2: Mechanical failures. Outdoor rounds take their toll on these machines. Dropping rounds would allow a rider to not be penalized due to a bike or a mechanic's failure. Tomac could certainly use a dropped round due to that random rock hitting his master cylinder. Pro Circuit had a bad round where the motors let go. If AC or Savagty loses the title by 25 points, are they a worse rider than the guy they get beat by? It would truly become a rider's championship and the best rider would have the most points at the end. Star Yamaha had some issues last year that cost the Martin's and Webb some valuable points. I would think the OEMs would be in favor of this. We could institute a Constructors (Manufacturers) Championship as well where we tally the total points scored by a Manufacturer across all riders in every round. That would encourage top teams to keep a bigger roster and avoid a situation where a team like Factory Yamaha goes racing Outdoors with 1 guy (Webb) and would also improve contingency dollars from the OEMs for privateers and additional support to the 15-20th place riders, as their points would have a bit of significance.
***(Not very significant) #3, Two less mandatory rounds for the rider who complain about too many races on the schedule.
Age 52
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...only pops up when someone's favourite rider can't keep it going consistently...
So please go back edit your post with your age.
We already do it in MXDN, why not all championship series?
You sucked 2 races.... OWN IT. LOL
Sounds like soccer participation trophys for all mentality.
Do you see the problem?
You can't just drop the worst motos because we do not tally up finishing positions. We score overall championships based on points awarded. Not by finish position. If we did it by finish position then yes, you could drop your worst two and just score the 22 motos. But we work on a points based system so you can't simply just drop your two worst motos and only score 22 motos.
Edit:
Just to add, because we work on a points based system, a scenario exists where Rider A can win 11 overalls and have one second overall and lose the championship to rider B who has 1 overall and 11 second overalls.
Carmichael and Stewart have special places in my eyes for being the only men to go 24-0 through the Nationals.
Having said that, you think the two points I brought up aren't valid? I'm not saying it's bad the way it is, just think the proposed format helps improve those two areas.
Pit Row
I would bet 39 out of the 40 riders on the gate would like this idea.
No they shouldn't drop any scores.
39
Not only would this really give the privateers extra motivation to dice it up for back-half racing, it would also help out the Contender who has a bad day/moto and is in salvage mode.
Have most of you really though how big of a nut kick it must be to place 21st overall and not receive a single dam point for a grueling weekend's work? I mean seriously....come on...
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