Some of the fast C riders were hitting it in their other classes, but I didn't see 1 in any actual C class moto.
Oh and BTW --- I got a friend from work to bring his "real beginner" son to the race to check it out. His son is 18 and is a real, real beginner on a YZ125. He almost crapped the bed when I showed him 250C and said "that's the class you'd be racing."
I think VET261 is on to something here that, the organizations should be taking a hard look at!!!Oh and BTW --- I got a friend from work to bring his "real beginner" son to the race to check it out. His son is 18 and is a real, real beginner on a YZ125. He almost crapped the bed when I showed him 250C and said "that's the class you'd be racing."
I agree with Original44 -- change the local classes to B/C combined and add a D class for real beginners. About the bottom third of the C class would be in the D class and the top 2/3 would be in the combined B/C class. No actual class addition to the schedule, just shifting of classes.
Some of the fast C riders were hitting it in their other classes, but I didn't see 1 in any actual C class moto.
Oh and BTW --- I got a friend from work to bring his "real beginner" son to the race to check it out. His son is 18 and is a real, real beginner on a YZ125. He almost crapped the bed when I showed him 250C and said "that's the class you'd be racing."
I agree with Original44 -- change the local classes to B/C combined and add a D class for real beginners. About the bottom third of the C class would be in the D class and the top 2/3 would be in the combined B/C class. No actual class addition to the schedule, just shifting of classes.
Oh and BTW --- I got a friend from work to bring his "real beginner" son to the race to check it out. His son is 18 and is a real, real beginner on a YZ125. He almost crapped the bed when I showed him 250C and said "that's the class you'd be racing."
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But as Original44 pointed out in his post, it then ruins Loretta's for those "fast" C racers because they raced B locally. So that's why it doesn't work.
Make it B/C and D, and those super fast "C" racers are still able to do LL.
I mean, I totally agree with you, but the reality is where we are at now with LL stuff that will never work. B/C and D has a chance to work.
Only way you can get C to really be novice/beginner is for LL and other National events to change. This Original44 idea makes Local racing better for true beginners without having to change the Nation as a whole.
100% agree. Unless the national level/MX Sports changes their rules there will be a conflict at a local level and this provides a compromise. And given the $$ spent at the national/LL level I don't see them changing.
Several of the kids up front at the battle race were at LL this year, including us, and though they are very good riders none of them broke the top 20 at LL.
(after Original44 was shouting it at me at Malvern scaring me)
100% agree. Unless the national level/MX Sports changes their rules there will be a conflict at a local level and this provides a compromise. And given the $$ spent at the national/LL level I don't see them changing.
Several of the kids up front at the battle race were at LL this year, including us, and though they are very good riders none of them broke the top 20 at LL.
But as Original44 pointed out in his post, it then ruins Loretta's for those "fast" C racers because they raced B locally. So that's why it doesn't work.
Make it B/C and D, and those super fast "C" racers are still able to do LL.
I mean, I totally agree with you, but the reality is where we are at now with LL stuff that will never work. B/C and D has a chance to work.
Only way you can get C to really be novice/beginner is for LL and other National events to change. This Original44 idea makes Local racing better for true beginners without having to change the Nation as a whole.