Go to commercial inside of the last 3 laps????
Go to commercial inside of the last 3 laps????
what a circus.
I do have to say, I enjoyed watching the Buell in the beginning... until Harley engineering took over and it fell apart...
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I was not impressed with the whole event. The only good part was the actual race. but the start was stupid, rolling starts gave no one from the back a chance to gain position from the start. The noise and all the talking was just over the top, I couldn't hear a thing. Safety car caused an accident. and I could go on from there.
As far as the riders and bike, I was happy there, looks like all bikes have a chance if the race organizer get out the way. It would be a riders race
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After the Buell fell apart, I kind of lost interest in the race. It was fun watching a twin battle for the lead. I fell asleep for most of the second half of the race.
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Originally Posted by nissn1
Yeah, that was a bummer about the Buell's bodywork coming loose. Eslick was running great up to that point. They've definitely NASCARified the race.After the Buell fell apart, I kind of lost interest in the race. It was fun watching a twin battle for the lead. I fell asleep for most of the second half of the race.
The crowd looked pretty small. I guess on a Friday night during Bike Week everybody was probably already in the bars drunk.
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I liked how they spent 5 minutes drilling holes and zip tying the bodywork back on. Then DE starts up the bike and tugs on the bodywork to make sure he is good to go, the bodywork moves like 6 inches. Danny is like what the fuck! Then he grabs some duct tape and fix it himself.
Being a nasbike race it would have been bad ass if one of the mechanics jumped pit wall, slid to the bike on his knees and cut the bodywork off with a cordless sawzall.
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the bodywork that danny eslick used on the buell was not the factory kit. shawn higbee, who started pretty far back, finished 5th and his bike ( and the other 5 buells) held together. yes, it was fun watching danny, josh and boz trading leads.
The image of one of his mechs. doing that, is hilarious. And you're right.... After seeing their work do absolutely nothing, when DE tugged on it, I'm sure he would have prefered they done just that!
His "Here!... let Me fix it!" was fantastic TV.
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it is also sad that the "safety car" was the main cause of the worst crash.
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Not impressed with the race at all. All the yellow flags/caution laps make for boring racing.
NASCARified is right, and I was sorely disappointed.
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I DVRd it and am only half way through. You talking about dude who hit the rear of one of the bikes and had his rig towed by the lead bike while he slid across the track quite gracefully?
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Yes that is the part I am talking about
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Despite all the BS, and the fact the end would have been much better if Hayes had stayed up, Bostrom showed some great riding the last couple laps. The drive he was getting out of some of the corners was awesome, he seems like one of those riders that has gotten stronger as he realizes he doesn't have that many more races left, when he was in WSB he looked disinterested a lot.
That car was kinda pissing me off as "viewer" the entire time. I really disliked the start and I really disliked it's presence in the rest of the race except where completely necessary.
My thought: if that damn car was upsetting me as a viewer, then I wonder how those boys felt riding behind it for multiple laps. Those guys spent a great deal of time, money and energy to be there.(or sponsers did) But the point is the same. Regardless, those guys still had to do the riding and the work.
Granted, by lap 46 (or way sooner) they are probably wasted-kinda-tired, but good god, let them run their bikes.
It just seemed to me that if I was annoyed, then the boys on the bikes were probably cussing in their helmets too, as they should have been.
Bikes are bikes, cars are cars, let's keep the differentiation between the two VAST. Asses!
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With the introduction of the pace car the AMA is well on their way to turning the Daytona 200 into a NASCAR style event.
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The "safety car" has been involved in the 200 for a number of years now, and each year it seems to have created some controversy.
I don't like the rolling start at all, nor the flagging from the tower. Also it seemed the night race caused some problems (lights going out) that greatly affected the outcome of the race.
That being said, it was nice to see the increased variety of bikes in the field. It seems like the new rules have created some parity in the results. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out!
Perhaps some pro's, perhaps come con's, however my opinion is to let the sport be "pure". Let those boys run.
And if they (the regulators) don't...eventually it will bite them in the tail. My o2 of course, but it seemed very apparent that they were wayyyyy to hands on during this race. And ultimately it screwed up what should have been an AMAZING race. Those boys deserved to have a better forum.
Those boys went there to race. Let them go, let them race. I haven't educated myself on new rules, but last night sucked IMO.
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I didn't bother to watch any of it, or the SuperSPORT, er, SuperBike race either. Yawn, guess I'll start my boycott now. Great job, NASCRAP-Vision....
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What did you see FRANK?
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Didn't bother to watch the Super SPORT race on Thurs, didn't bother to watch the 200 on fri as Steve and I sat down with some fine bourbon and watched "Charlie wilson's War" (excellent), and as bad as I heard it sucked, we're not going to watch in on Setve's TiVo now either. Lame. Great job, DMG.....
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