CRAMSEY19
Noob
What do you guys think? After watching the recent Thunder Valley MX National I feel that there are a lot of issues that should not be happening. I'm not talking about track prep, TV time or anything like that but hear me out. I don't think things like Tommy Hahn getting a little off kilter and going off the track and then center punching a mule cart in practice is anything less than careless on the promoters part. Another event in practice was when a rider went down and the flagger was not paying attention and what then happened after was a huge pile up resulting in injuries due to someone's carelessness. The same thing happened at Mt. Morris in 2009 in the 450 LCQ when a track worker was not paying attention and a rider fell on the back side of a jump and caused a pile up of about 25 additional riders as we were all yelling franticly at him to do something! The last event I observed was when Ryan Dungey got squirrely in the opening laps of the first moto and nearly went into a huge water hole of the side of the track, REALLY? I feel that at the pro motocross level due to the speeds and the size of the jumps that a rider should have a little room for a smooth runoff in the event of an accident. Many other sports such as Moto GP, Indy cars and so on have a TON of run off room. Now does MX need that much, I don't think so, the speeds are not near a great as the two previously mentioned motorsports but they also are perfectly smooth, with no changing terrain at all. I feel like at the tracks that are supposed to be "the best in the world" should not be having incidents like happened last weekend. So I'll ask again, what do you guys think?