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Personally I loved having the two a week races. Obviously there's a ton of hurdles to overcome but I think it would be cool to find a way to continue it in the future. Could be a way to get the extra races feld wants without taking away from the outdoors.
Could do say A1 on Saturday, Phoenix Wednesday, A2 Saturday. Something along those lines. Thoughts?
Could do say A1 on Saturday, Phoenix Wednesday, A2 Saturday. Something along those lines. Thoughts?
Being in one stadium certainly made it easier to pull off,not sure how it would work going from city to city though.
Loved it and would love to see it continue.
The Shop
24 rounds
12 stadiums
I was talking to the girlfriend about it yesterday and she said she likes going to two a year in different cities, but not a chance she'd want to go twice in a week. The only people who would want to go twice in a week are die hard fans/riders and that isn't enough to fill the seats .
Riders and crew would essentially live on the road, never going home, never able to test.
Go from, for example, racing at Houston on Saturday, to Houston 2 (wednesday) to Atlanta (Stadium) to Atlanta (Wednesday) to Indy (Saturday) to Indy (Wednesday) and so one and so on
When do they go home? For how long, one night?
The only way this would work is to somehow skip alternating Saturdays in order to race Wednesdays, giving the riders like 10 days off on certain weeks, but then that becomes confusing and will piss off the casual fans
Also, lot more costs to house and feed the team
"i LoVe wEdNeSdAy nIgHt RaCeS wE sHoUlD dO tHeM aLl yEaR"
choose one
Saturday-race day/ pack truck up
Sunday- build day/clean truck/ drive Depending on when team finished building
Monday- drive
Tuesday-drive if far race
Wednesday-Arrive to stadium
Thursday-cleaning truck/team arrives to do any work on bike / set up for press day if team is riding/ shopping for team food
Friday- set up for rest of teams and press day / sound testing
Also throw in if the truck has any break downs or needs servicing done into that randomly
Then repeat till September when Outdoors finish
Pit Row
Say you were aiming for 20 races in 17 weeks. You could do something like this:
Week 1 - Saturday race, Wednesday race (A1, Phoenix)
Week 2 - Sat race (A2)
Week 3 - Sat race
Week 4 - Sat race, wed race (Oakland, San Diego)
Week 5 - no races
Week 6 - Sat race
Week 7 - Sat race, wed race (Indy, Detroit)
Week 8 - Sat race
Week 9 - Sat race
Week 10 - Sat race
Week 11 - Sat race, wed race (Atlanta, Tampa)
Week 12 - no race
Week 13 - Sat race
Week 14 - Sat race
Week 15 - Sat race
Week 16 - Sat race, Wed race (Vegas 1, SLC)
Week 17 - Sat race Vegas 2
This would allow more time to have a break mid seaosn and a bigger gap between sx and mx.
Let everyone build for outdoors and it might help mxon results
Aslo, teams set up at SLC and remained in place for the 7 weeks. Its a ball ache moving everything, setting up break down, packing the have to do it all over 2 days later.
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