<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Apr 12 2008, 03:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>OK i can see where you are coming from, but i am still unsure how i feel about it as a concept. How about situations like Jerez 05? Or the calls of danger agaisnt Elias last year, or even egainst JT this year? Should they be acted on?
No. No one went down, and for the most part, you don't need to worry about riders taking a dive to get someone penalized.
If a decision can't be easily made, they should leave it alone and call it a "racing incident". When people are racing in a crowd at triple digits a few inches apart, that's the only thing you can call it.
But Checa on Neukirchner does not require a court of inquiry and it was not a racing incident.
I love tough racing. I love watching riders take one another out to the edge of the grass. I love watching them trade paint. I don't love watching someone ride over the limit and crash. Any amateur can do that, myself included.
If you race like an amateur you can hang with the amateurs at the rear of the pack.
No. No one went down, and for the most part, you don't need to worry about riders taking a dive to get someone penalized.
If a decision can't be easily made, they should leave it alone and call it a "racing incident". When people are racing in a crowd at triple digits a few inches apart, that's the only thing you can call it.
But Checa on Neukirchner does not require a court of inquiry and it was not a racing incident.
I love tough racing. I love watching riders take one another out to the edge of the grass. I love watching them trade paint. I don't love watching someone ride over the limit and crash. Any amateur can do that, myself included.
If you race like an amateur you can hang with the amateurs at the rear of the pack.