The Cota MotoGp Thread (Drama Inside)

You guys not have street sweepers down there? I live out in the country in the middle of nowhere, and the town still sends a street sweeper out in the spring to sweep up the sand on the roads, they can't be that expensive. You'd think for a muti million dollar world class event they'd send some out for a couple laps. Or maybe that would cut into the profit margins a bit.

 

Not only that, but how often does COTA even get used? I mean there's a MotoGP and F1 weekend, a few random trackdays here and there. Besides that how much actual usage does the track get compared to your typical national level circuit like NJMP/RA/VIR?....to the point where its already full of "dangerous" bumps around the circuit, it's not THAT old of a facility.

 

I think it’s a construction issue. It seems like it was discussed once before. The foundation and base layer aren’t optimal due to the make up of the landscape down there. But damn, if they can build world class facilities in the middle of the middle eastern desert, Texas should be easy.

 

I was thinking something similar or at least one of those jet dryers like they use in nascar should’ve been used before the weekend. Sure I’m over simplifying things here as the solution to the dust and rocks appears a bit too simple. I wonder if part of the layer they ground is still slightly breaking up or something. As in just breaking off the small edges not hunks of track.

 

But hosting world class events requires world class preparation. They f$cked up on this one.

 

I wonder what was discussed at the safety meeting. Or is that tonight?

 

FTW^^^^^^^^^

 

Thought it was yesterday, if not scheduled would be a failure if they didn’t meet with windscreens breaking from rocks, no visibility, etc. I really hope they did something overnight. Haven’t watched anything yet today after wsbk.

 

Don’t tell F1 that

 

Green.

 

Man, the riders are letting it be known how bad the track is. Saw a pic of 3 on ghe back straight and it looked like they were racing on dirt.

 

Last year's article

https://www.cycleworld.com/pavement-problem-cota

 

Any>Simon Crafar all day. In the time it takes Simon to mutter out a sentence Amy’s already delivered a paragraph long insight. I hope she gets good feedback and they tell Simon to stay home.