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I went to Millers Motosports Park for the races yesterday. It's actually a pretty nice facility. The grandstands are covered. But a better idea is to get trackside tickets, bring a chair, an umbrella, a cooler of your favorite beverages and find a spot you like. It's cheaper and you can move around the park. The track is pretty level and you can see 90% of it from anywhere. There are also large video displays that show the feed from SpeedTV in front of each grandstand. But they are too far away to be able to make out the standings text without binoculars. Lucky for me there was a relatively cool north wind blowing yesterday which kept the temperatures down. There was lots of scenery too, but I'm not going to talk about it because I don't want to be burned at the stake by sachiwilson and her gang of vixens.
The announcer was pretty irritating and having to listen to him say shyt like how wonderful it was that the 125cc racers could actually figure out how the starting lights worked was pretty teeth-grating. And the constant pro-Honda and Suzuki bias was pretty pathetic. Luckily the sound of the bikes drowned him out much of the time.
This is the first time I've been to a Superbike series and I am amazed at how boring the 1000cc classes can be. If Mladin hadn't high sided early the Superbike race would have been a parade. Superstock wasn't much better with the bikes pretty much just following each other around. Yawn. The Supersport race was much more entertaining with a much bigger field and a lot more passing action.
And frankly the USGPRU 125cc race early yesterday was the most entertaining of all.
If the AMA doesn't find some way to inject life into the Superstock and Superbike series I can see them withering away. Local flattrack and Supermotard races are much more exciting... the higher velocities of the Superbikes notwithstanding. It'd also be better to see more manufacturers involved than the same 4 with their virtually identical bikes. Since the Superstock and Superbike lap times are almost identical it might be fun to see them run together.
Not that the day wasn't fun. The idiot announcers and their typical stupid questions to the starters are pretty funny. You can just see the racers holding back the urge to call the announcers idiots and tell them to shutthefockup. The only real pall on the day was the podium finishes by Honda. But all in all I wouldn't pay good money again to see Superbike.
The announcer was pretty irritating and having to listen to him say shyt like how wonderful it was that the 125cc racers could actually figure out how the starting lights worked was pretty teeth-grating. And the constant pro-Honda and Suzuki bias was pretty pathetic. Luckily the sound of the bikes drowned him out much of the time.
This is the first time I've been to a Superbike series and I am amazed at how boring the 1000cc classes can be. If Mladin hadn't high sided early the Superbike race would have been a parade. Superstock wasn't much better with the bikes pretty much just following each other around. Yawn. The Supersport race was much more entertaining with a much bigger field and a lot more passing action.
And frankly the USGPRU 125cc race early yesterday was the most entertaining of all.
If the AMA doesn't find some way to inject life into the Superstock and Superbike series I can see them withering away. Local flattrack and Supermotard races are much more exciting... the higher velocities of the Superbikes notwithstanding. It'd also be better to see more manufacturers involved than the same 4 with their virtually identical bikes. Since the Superstock and Superbike lap times are almost identical it might be fun to see them run together.
Not that the day wasn't fun. The idiot announcers and their typical stupid questions to the starters are pretty funny. You can just see the racers holding back the urge to call the announcers idiots and tell them to shutthefockup. The only real pall on the day was the podium finishes by Honda. But all in all I wouldn't pay good money again to see Superbike.
