The race at Grange was a true blast. Had lots of fun and there was really good competition at the race. The only thing that needed improvement was that some rude organizer guy decided to combine 3 races into 1 (both 2 stroke groups and the small 4 stroke group). This caused utter chaos on the track as there was almost 30 bikes on the track at once only to save 15 minutes for the day. After several riders repeatedly told this guy that it was unsafe and not a good idea the decision was made and still moved forward with resulting in many crashes including myself. The scariest part was seeing 30 riders going into turn 1 at the same time (stupid). If only this organizer guy would have been on the track, it would have been nice to see this guy go down with the riders that he so ignorantly decided to put out there in the first place.
There were
only 26 bikes in the second 2 stroke class heat which
included the three 4 strokes.
At Willow Springs the 2 stroke class heat had about 23, maybe 24 so it
wasn't too many more.
30 bikes is the maximum I would put on the track.
Putting the
3 heats and
3 finals together saved
30 minutes
for the heats and
50 minutes for the 3 finals making a total much more
than
1 hour and 20 minutes saved when you add in the time between them.
We really needed extra time as the schedule was too tight.
Also it was a lot more fun for the 4 stroke guys.
Where did you get your 15 minute figure from?
Sorry that you crashed, Are you and your bike OK?
These races need to be more organized. The reason for having heats in the first place is to eliminate slower riders to allow the faster bikes to battle in the following races. That's how the adults do it anyway. Once the faster riders begin lapping the slower riders, they simply get in the way which is very dangerous! If the organizer wasn't so interested in making money on the race, the track had the ability to furnish transponders to everybody for $300.00 and the races would have been scored properly. If that would have been broken up the 100+ ways it would have come out to $1.33 extra to know the the track time, speed, and place.
Grange Motor Circuit has no transponders to rent for $300.
I talked to Jim at Grange about using transponders and it was not feasible.
$300?
$100 x $1.33 = $133 and there weren't 100 registered riders with numbers.
The timing circuits are in the Grange track and that is it.
Your $300 for the transponders is as far off as your 15 minutes time savings
estimate.
You need transponders and the laptops with the software as well as the
owners of those laptops/software to run them.
The whole transponder system costs at least $20,000. with enough
transponders for all the bikes.
The cost is closer to $1000 to rent and any damage to a transponder is
$400.
Please email me where I can get all the the above for only $300 and
I will do it for the next race. or you can pay for it yourself? find a
sponsor?
I made no money from the race and the turn out was lower than Willow
Springs and it cost more at Grange with the Pro Photography, etc
This may be the last race I get involved with. Way too much time, stress and
aggravation then I have to deal with first time posters like you and worse.
By the way did YOU help out at the race with any of the flagging, scoring, etc
Think that you could do a better job of it? Your time and dollar estimates are
not even close to reality.
As for the riders and spectators in the race. Thanks to everyone who came out to support motorized bicycle racing. It was a great time and nice to see all the bike designs and efforts that everyone is putting into making their bikes faster (way cool). Hopefully the next event will run as smooth as the bikes in it.
You said it mate!
