Nobody called the races "snoozers" when Rossi or Stoner were running off and leaving everyone.
Well you may try speaking for yourself on that one instead of everybody (et ~nobody~) else. I've called a TON of races snoozers when the expected winner, well, runs off and wins it. Even the racers know that runaway races aren't as exciting for the spectators, they even apologize for it at times (even Marquez apologized for the boring win when he commented on the near eat-it he had on the last lap, he said something to the degree of "that was for the fans to make it better for the less exciting race" (or something along those lines, his meaning was very clear though).
Hell when Mladin was winning everything for what seemed like 20 years I got bored stiff watching road racing.
So you'll have to just agree to disagree I suppose. I would have much preferred to see something like what was done last year with Marquez and Pedrosa axle-to-crankshaft nearly all the way around.
Boring recollection warning!
Perhaps I'm too jaded. After having spent as much time at Ascot as I did it takes a lot to really get my attention, I prefer good racing without an expected runaway winner, or AT LEAST a good race SOMEWHERE within the field, y'know?. Geez, sometimes watching a main event there was as exciting as actually being IN a main event there. There was some insanely serious racing going on there Friday night after Friday night. No "follow the leader" racing going on. While watching from the pits/infield, I saw Ivan Shigemasa (aka "The Kamikazi") die in May of 1973 in turn 3 there (my god, what a horrible memory. He went straight into the north turn wall wide open, I clearly remember seeing both of his wrists completely double backwards with his hands against the tops of his forearms when he impacted the wall, his hands still on the bars as his wrists simply snapped and he went headlong into that wall at 90mph+. The ride home was very silent that night. While spectating and seated in the grandstands I also saw Elbert Turner die there on my birthday in 1974. He was in this amazingly fierce battle when going into the north turn when things went to shit. He ended up coming of his bike and slamming into the crash wall back-first, his bike slamming into his chest a millisecond later. His body hit the wall, then his bike hit him slamming him against the wall again between bike and wall. The ambulance left very slowly, everyone that regulared at Ascot knew what that usually meant. I'm just glad my mom wasn't present to see either one of those horrid wrecks or I would have never raced again.
So perhaps I just expect too much. Don't get me wrong, please. I don't expect to see death and destruction (I saw Super Sic's death in realtime on a live feed at 3am around here, holy crap that was awful ... I stood there with my mouth hanging open not wanting to believe what my eyes were telling me). I suppose I just prefer tight racing.
I mean if I wanted to see the field spread out all over the track I'd watch reruns of the TT (Isle of Man). To me, all that really made the GP race at Texas exciting (other than Lorentho's woopsie daisy) was Jonathan Green's usual over-hyped and ultra entertaining race calling. I used to love it when Brock Parks would get a break out moment, Green would yell out at the top of his lungs "GO ON BROCK PARKS!" He's like the UK version of Larry "Motormouth" Huffman (that guy that used to call the supercross races in the 1980s).
I know this has NOTHING to do with motorcycle racing, but one thing that keeps getting to me is this infiltration of NASCAR "faces" sneaking in to moto racing of several types. They're always showing some stupid tweet from some NASCAR person on the SX races (as if I care if Ricky Friggin Bobby likes supercross?), or having some NASCAR racer doing a show-up on camera at one of the races with something to say about how Supercross is so much like NASCAR (hint hint new viewers, listen up please! We want your viewership! Uh, cuz we needs to sells us some advertising time ok?). Danielle Trotta, a well known NASCAR personality, has been seen hosting both Supercross and MOTOGP races (when they are stateside). I mean, where the hell is Bob Varsha? Yea yea, I know ... he went to CBS (I think, maybe it's NBC) so he only covers races that they air. I miss Dispain as well. But NASCAR faces keep on creeping in to motorcycle racing, especially any of it that makes money and is easy to do TV with. Supercross is a natural for the owners of the NASCAR productions to want to glom on to. What with data farming at such it's so easy for network owners to know who is watching what, and when. It won't be long before they realize that SX, MX, and MGP races create a lot of revenue, and then it's all doomed. Anything that is absorbed by the mainstream is simply turned into pure homogenized poo.
Earth to Jeeter .... This is the Planet Earth calling Jeeter, come in please...
Ahem ...... uh, wow. I guess I had a plugged drain, er brain, er something. Far too much to say about far too little!
I guess I'm saddle-goofy, I just drove six hundred miles between 5am and Noon, with a short visit in the middle of all that to the VA hospital for a CAT scan. So I suppose I'm a little more stupid than usual.
Haahaa!
Anyhow, yea. MOTOGP, Texas .... could've been more fun to watch, let's just put it that way.
