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1. The new practice/qualifying sessions suck. Less racing for your money. Less than half, actually. I paid no attention to any of this until Saturday, so I had no idea how it worked. They have x number of practices, with the transponders on the bikes. The fastest so many lap times get to make the night program. Night program = two heats and one LCQ per class. There's no gate drop for practice, they just turn them loose and they get 15 minutes or so to put up the best lap time they can. Yawn.
2. Prestone crashed during the opening ceremonies. Classic. They did the music, said his name, slid the doors behind the podium open, and you saw him tip over off the ramp. Doors slam shut, silence, on to the next rider...
3. The opening presentation has been stepped up a notch with pretty cleverly produced video segments. Pretty cool. When they started, I leaned over to Evenslower and said, "That's Ennio Morricone's 'The Ecstasy of Gold' they're playing." His response: "Your proabably one of only two people in this entire stadium who knows that. (Him being the other one). Think, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", near the end when Tuco is running in circles in the cemetery looking for Arch Stanton's grave (where the gold is supposedly buried).
4. Watch the 125's when it airs!!! Non-stop carnage in the heats and in the main.
5. Both classes, peeps are ignoring the blue flags and it's impacting the racing. Not sure how much of that will show up on the broadcasts.
6. Tommy Hahn = Crashing machine. Once every five laps he crashes. No exceptions. I was watching Atlanta yesterday, that I recorded while I was gone Saturday, and he had an exact copy crash in STL. Stuck in a triple or rhythm section, with the front wheel on a tuff block, pulling on the bars trying to get it off. I thought I was watching STL footage yesterday. Saturday, he crashes on the triple, told Erin Bates he broke his arm, next thing you know, he's racing (and crashing with alarming regularity) again. Must have been a stinger in his elbow, they said.
7. #914, Eric Nye cannot go around a corner without crashing. This also happened with amazing regularity.
#8. The latest thing in rims, two-tone annodizing, where it looks like they dipped the rim half into some dye, so it's half silver and half blue, looks like dog poo, IMO. Words like, "asymmetrical" and "unnerving" and "annoying to look at" and "looks like you forgot to wash your bike" come to mind...
2. Prestone crashed during the opening ceremonies. Classic. They did the music, said his name, slid the doors behind the podium open, and you saw him tip over off the ramp. Doors slam shut, silence, on to the next rider...
3. The opening presentation has been stepped up a notch with pretty cleverly produced video segments. Pretty cool. When they started, I leaned over to Evenslower and said, "That's Ennio Morricone's 'The Ecstasy of Gold' they're playing." His response: "Your proabably one of only two people in this entire stadium who knows that. (Him being the other one). Think, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", near the end when Tuco is running in circles in the cemetery looking for Arch Stanton's grave (where the gold is supposedly buried).
4. Watch the 125's when it airs!!! Non-stop carnage in the heats and in the main.
5. Both classes, peeps are ignoring the blue flags and it's impacting the racing. Not sure how much of that will show up on the broadcasts.
6. Tommy Hahn = Crashing machine. Once every five laps he crashes. No exceptions. I was watching Atlanta yesterday, that I recorded while I was gone Saturday, and he had an exact copy crash in STL. Stuck in a triple or rhythm section, with the front wheel on a tuff block, pulling on the bars trying to get it off. I thought I was watching STL footage yesterday. Saturday, he crashes on the triple, told Erin Bates he broke his arm, next thing you know, he's racing (and crashing with alarming regularity) again. Must have been a stinger in his elbow, they said.
7. #914, Eric Nye cannot go around a corner without crashing. This also happened with amazing regularity.
#8. The latest thing in rims, two-tone annodizing, where it looks like they dipped the rim half into some dye, so it's half silver and half blue, looks like dog poo, IMO. Words like, "asymmetrical" and "unnerving" and "annoying to look at" and "looks like you forgot to wash your bike" come to mind...
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