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Rulebook states they should restart in the case of a gate malfunction.
Assumably it took 6 laps to look at replays. Which they now like to do. Apparently.
Make a call too slow? Get crucified.
The Shop
and maybe have a way to "replay this" so a referee can see it faster then what it took.....
just make the process more efficient. it's supposed to be the top of the motorcycle racing heap right?
I have raced redneck tracks in the middle of nowhere run by toothless hillbillies and they never took more than one lap to throw the red flag for a starting incident. The most professionally(?) run race series in the world (for dirt bikes) takes six laps to accomplish the same thing? I can only imagine the jokes at the weekly riders meeting at each SX round. I would be surprised if there is one guy on the starting line at this point that has any respect for the integrity of the rulebook and officials that enforce it.
Gallagher needs to go work at Taco Bell, he is much better qualified for employment of that caliber. The inconsistency shown in recent events is a huge black eye for a sport that has come a long hard way to become what it is today.
timing is everything in many things,
mis-time a triple, it hurts
mis time a joke, no one laughs
mis-time music, it sounds shit
mis-time rulings, look like amateurs
everyone makes cock-ups and when you do you have to wear the blame
0-2 and lets not count the "non-rulings".
Pit Row
sidenote - gutted for the way it turned for Stewart
9/10 when this sort of thing happens it's because the rider hit the gate, they had to make 100% sure it was the gate that malfunctioned. I can only guess at how long it took them to access a replay in order to make the call, in the mean time they would have been fixing the gate itself.
I don't think there was any errors at all in the way it was handled.
You think Gallagher was focussing solely on Osborne as the gates dropped? My bet is the Husky mechanics were the only people in the whole stadium who were.
Assuming Gallagher missed it in realtime (as most of us did) someone will have had to bring it to Gallaghers attention, by approaching an official who could make radio contact with him or physically making their way to Gallagher in the tower themselves.
The officials would have had to request replays to prove if Osborne hit the gate, or whether it simply didn't drop. Maybe they even had guys analysing the mechanism on the gate itself.
According to Nerds "friend at Feld" replays are broadcast on the big screen at the same time as they are on TV. The replay wasn't shown until the 4th lap on the TV. Maybe they weren't able to get a replay until then?
The fact is, none of us have any idea how long any of these steps took, so you can't criticise the length of time it took for them to red flag the race. Unless of course you have a preconceived cynical and irrational opinion of Gallagher and the AMA/FIM...
Whether you thought it was correct or not, the Reed/Canard incident happend right under his nose which is why he felt able to make that decision so quickly.
30 seconds to black flag and ruin a title shot
6 laps to determine if gate malfunctioned
WTF
They would have had to look at the footage to confirm whether he went early, or whether the gate didn't drop at all.
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