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Take a look at this.
Jeremy Whatley is out cold at a Check GP, and the dumb ass crowd only makes things worse for the poor guy! Look at the positions they leave him in out on the track, and the dumb ass flagger doesn´t seem to know his job either. Does anyone know if there were any consequences for the promoter after this incident?
Jeremy Whatley is out cold at a Check GP, and the dumb ass crowd only makes things worse for the poor guy! Look at the positions they leave him in out on the track, and the dumb ass flagger doesn´t seem to know his job either. Does anyone know if there were any consequences for the promoter after this incident?
Let the medical personnel do it.
Would have been better off running to the top of that hill and directing guys around/slowing them down.
The Shop
It sounds like the announcer says "Jean Micheal Bayle" right as the clip ends.
What would that be, 1988 or 1989?
I witnessed just such an incident, where the downed rider was suffocating and blue, but everyone stood around, afraid to touch him (paramedics were on the other end of the track, dealing with another injured rider). One smart guy went in past the crowd that gathered, rotated his helmet back (it was rotated forward enough that the strap was completely blocking his airway, and digging in so tight it couldn't be undone) and undid the strap. The fallen rider gasped with a huge inhaled breath. Life saved, I believe.
Anyone see that Lusk video and the way the "trained professionals" carted him off? Where was that, Costa Rica? Just a few years ago too.
Whatley won a 500cc British championship in the early 90's. And he was on a Des Nations team with Thorpe and a very young James Dobb.
It's hard to tell from the angle that the video is shot, but it looks like the spectators were pretty blind to the oncoming riders.
And yeah, they shouldn't have moved him. At that point, protecting him should have been the biggest priority. Moving the bike to a position in front of him would have been one option.
I saw another one texting (and paying little attention to the section of the track behind him) this weekend and sort of let him have it. Call it a pet peeve, but when I mentioned it to someone from the track later, they told me they have a zero tolerance policy toward texting while flagging. That was kind of cool to hear.
Pit Row
I think that's gotta be close to the top of the list of pet peeves for any racer. Idiot flaggers that don't know what they're doing. Even if they have good intentions. Good intentions don't pay for hospital bills and make pain go away.
That makes me say this: The most MX riders doesn't have any respect for the yellow flag and the marshals and that makes me very angry because that makes that you don't have respect for the fallen and injured riders either!
We have a worrying trend here in the mini classes where the kids disregard the yellow flags. Many times there's no consequences to them either for it. I hope this is only a Finnish problem.
Then I see guys that slow down when they see a yellow flag. But here in EU they don't give a sanction when they ignore the yellow flag that is the problem I think.
Fun that we agree for once haha
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