2024 Daytona 200 aka Big D

Thanks...for all who wonder .417 liters equates to. It's 14.1 ounces...a little more than a can of coke.

19 liters = 642.466 ounces
14.1 ounces = or a 2% infraction

 

Good lord, was Bobby seeing how many he could rack up this weekend? Fuckin hell

 

Ummm...I think someone ticked a MotoAmerica official off at Daytona this year

 

Jeez Louise that’s a lot of missing safety wire infractions! Isn’t Anthony fania the dude who got drop kicked by A-A-Ron Yates?

 

Gus was dinged for rear caliper safety wire in Twins but it was on the Ducati in Supersport. Can we issue sanctions to Motoamerica for their mistakes?

 

Oops...

 

I bet Richie Escalante wished, he had that extra 14.1 ounces in his tank on the last lap .

 

1 fire extinguisher reprimand... a lions share of hot pit speeding tickets & missing safety wire. Thats alot of paper pushing!

 

I think MA is funded by speeding tickets.

 

All of the fines go to the air fence fund. A good thing...

 

How would enforce that?

 

Obviously communication of the rule to the teams, then set up a review/comments/questions period of time. Revise as needed then add to the rulebook. Before the race weekend begins remind the teams of the rule.

Monitor all bikes during the race. (Which race direction already does) If a bike loses power then you send someone to investigate (it appears JH4 and R. Escalante but there may have been others ). If after investigation it is found the rider didn't pit causing a fuel starvation then the team would be DQ'd pending protest/review period time allotted.

Safety of the riders is #1...its your teams responsibility to know how many laps the bike will run before you run out of fuel.

 

Well good for her... pfft

 

A couple years ago I was under the impression this August board decided it was just a glorified club race.

 

I don't see how that would incentivize teams to further than the costs of lost time. Escalante lost 10k in purse money in 200 yards and other riders got knocked completely out of contention for anything from miscalculated fuel. Strategy is part of it and sometimes the math gets wonky. Especially when there was rain on the horizon, no red flags the entire race, and no one was close enough to draft.

 

Club Motoamerica

Go back and watch the last lap...Escalante ran out of fuel a lot further than 200 yds...in fact he was shaking his bike at the international horseshoe at the start of the last lap...

 

#10 ran out of gas and parked his bike at turn 12 ( East banking) on the last lap of the first SuperHooligan race (on Friday).

 

I don't understand why the leading superbike riders lay low...it didn't used to be that way.