Neither of which are insurmountable these days. An advance program could be printed, sure, but a simple electronic update on public display and/or available for download could keep those who are interested up to date on the revised running order. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
are you real? displayed where? every so often round the 37+ miles circuit? sure they do a changes to the program during the start of the commentary but how many people do you think catch all of the changes (not just to numbers but also changes to bikes). I'm anal about these things and even I don't manage to catch them all. of the numbers changes are done on the morning of the race, don't you think they have enough to do as it is? -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ keeper of the ukrm faq for my sins YZF-R1: ZX9R E1 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
The simplest. Steam radio. It's a wonderful invention, designed to interface with the ear/brain. You might have heard of it. A simple second channel carrying a mixed voice/data stream for the duration of the race. Anyway, it's not impossible and could be done easily with current data technology, note I said for those who are interested. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
you know that bit you snipped? it said that they did it at the start of the commentary. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ keeper of the ukrm faq for my sins YZF-R1: ZX9R E1 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
I heard this in a David Jeffries style deadpan delivery. "Absolutely flat out in top". Well done on your finish.
It's a start, but irrelevant. FFS, the starting arrangements were devised in Nineteen Canteen and have the glaring flaw in them I've outlined. There is no need for it nowadays. Not that I give a shit about it really - the only ones paying the price for the apparent inability of the TT and MGP organisers to get with the program daddy-oh are the riders. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
Of course. Well, somebody has to. Things are going to the dogs around here with so much knowledge being waved about. Anyway, back to the deep ignorance... It seems that the riders who bust a gut in practice are not getting the 'reward' for it. Sure, some riders get moved up the start order, but nothing like the amount they should. That bloke who was fastest in practice in the Junior - Lens Blurry or something- started umpteenth. What was that all about, then? -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
OK then, what about a partial solution... simple enough and leads to a minimum of disruption, is reasonably fair to all concerned and can be communicated easily via radio announcers. The top ten fastest in practice get the first ten slots at the start. No exceptions for big money, big names, sponsors or anything else - just results and talent. [1] The remaining slots are kept as they are after the ten have been allocated - the blank ten being filled by the ones who didn't make the top ten. [1] I've a feeling that's something like how it was supposed to work in the first place, but there seems no sense to how the start placings are allocated now. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
Yeah, that came across during the race. They read out the top 12 at one point, but you hadn't come through the timing point. I kept thinking you'd pulled over or something, and then you'd get a mention. I think on lap 4 the guy read out the top 10, and then said that there are a couple of fast riders to come who will upset that order, like #29, Le Champignon.
I can just imagine: "Badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, mushroom!" etc.
