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Well... It has been a wild year. All three classes have had great racing all season long! I can't wait for next year to begin.
I do have a few questions. If you watched the Valencia race, there was a lot of rain. In this day and age, there are few things I just cannot understand. WHY can they not setup the cameras to keep rain off the lenses or at least have someone that quickly wipes the lenses while particular cameras are not feeding the live feed? Even something like the plastic over bike cameras that rolls clear plastic over the lens when it gets dirty would be better than just letting the lenses be covered in water so badly that we can hardly see the bikes.
Wet tracks... why are they still using push brooms to clear the tracks of standing water?! Seriously, have these people never seen an NHRA drag racing event!? They have track conditioners that can very quickly scrub oil/blood and other fluids off the track between runs. They have trailers that have jet engines on them and the exhaust is used like a giant blow dryer to blow the water off the track and dry it at the same time. The FIM could stand to take some lessons. I attended an NHRA event in Baytown and a cold front came through, dumping a few inches of rain on us in about 30 minutes. Within about 15-20 minutes of the rain stopping, the racing resumed with record speeds! This could seriously cut down the time between a red flag for rain and getting a race restarted when the rain lets up.
Also along the lines of wet tracks, why can't they use the asphalt that is porous? They used it on I-45 down around New Waverly/Willis a few years back. The aggregate is large enough that it allows water to run down through it to the substrate and then drain off to the sides. This drastically cuts down on standing water on the asphalt unless it is just raining in torrents. Maybe the stresses on the asphalt on a race track are too much for this kind of asphalt?
Finally, so long to Dani Pedrosa. It's been fun
I do have a few questions. If you watched the Valencia race, there was a lot of rain. In this day and age, there are few things I just cannot understand. WHY can they not setup the cameras to keep rain off the lenses or at least have someone that quickly wipes the lenses while particular cameras are not feeding the live feed? Even something like the plastic over bike cameras that rolls clear plastic over the lens when it gets dirty would be better than just letting the lenses be covered in water so badly that we can hardly see the bikes.
Wet tracks... why are they still using push brooms to clear the tracks of standing water?! Seriously, have these people never seen an NHRA drag racing event!? They have track conditioners that can very quickly scrub oil/blood and other fluids off the track between runs. They have trailers that have jet engines on them and the exhaust is used like a giant blow dryer to blow the water off the track and dry it at the same time. The FIM could stand to take some lessons. I attended an NHRA event in Baytown and a cold front came through, dumping a few inches of rain on us in about 30 minutes. Within about 15-20 minutes of the rain stopping, the racing resumed with record speeds! This could seriously cut down the time between a red flag for rain and getting a race restarted when the rain lets up.
Also along the lines of wet tracks, why can't they use the asphalt that is porous? They used it on I-45 down around New Waverly/Willis a few years back. The aggregate is large enough that it allows water to run down through it to the substrate and then drain off to the sides. This drastically cuts down on standing water on the asphalt unless it is just raining in torrents. Maybe the stresses on the asphalt on a race track are too much for this kind of asphalt?
Finally, so long to Dani Pedrosa. It's been fun