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Thanks, Couldn't remember, found it by accident last year, went to get some new motorcycle jeans and ended up having lunch there and talking to a few bikers. Never knew such a thing happened until then.
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All the normal huge tents with team gear were Clinton Enterprises.
Went into liquidation over Covid I believe
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I look forward to the Facebook post about abandoned cars in your carpark
We have one already
I can't go today with work, finished early tomorrow, and plans for Saturday too.
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It's okay, you're allowed to laugh. He walked back to the pits, got cleared by medical and half an hour later he was lining up on the grid again.
Different gravy them boys.
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Just shows how good there leathers our anybody else would be wiped out.
Of course I would, I would also care about the well being of the victim but my point is how dangerous and insane road racing is
How would that person explain that to their insurance? Ah, a motorcyclist "landed" on it. Where was it parked? In my drive. Wut?
How would that person explain that to their insurance? Ah, a motorcyclist "landed" on it. Where was it parked? In my drive. Wut?
I'm sure the organisers won't just walk away from it, more than likely to be covered by the event insurance, have to remember too most of the occupants of the houses along the circuit are there to spectate also so most likely understanding about the situation. Of course you'd be annoyed about the damage but at the same time damage is a millions times more likely to occur to property / vehicles on any street corner without it being turned into a race track.
It's an unbelievable spectacle, something that realistically needs to be experienced in person to fully appreciate, such a unique event in a country where lets face it has very little else and nothing that comes close to the calibre of it so it should really be celebrated, at the end of the day no motorsport is risk free, and therefore even if it was quantifiable how much is too much? So I think fair play to them, I'll certainly enjoy watching it, hope they all have a safe race but importantly take the positives, he walked away without injury and the good old VW softened his landing, testament to VW's Euro NCAP pedestrian safety testing, really VW should just give em a new one and put it down to safety testing
I am from the area and grew up around it so know what it brings to the towns and country as a whole - just think in todays modern "helf and safe-ety" that its an insane event. Wouldn't want to see it go in the slightest but when you consider the H&S risks and likelihood of occurrences, you wonder how any risk assessment gets passed or approved.
Must be an absolute headache to organise I know that, to be fair to them they certainly put in the effort to improve as they're alway adding more safety equipment each year, the airbags in the leathers seem to have really helped too.
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Of course I would, I would also care about the well being of the victim but my point is how dangerous and insane road racing is
How would that person explain that to their insurance? Ah, a motorcyclist "landed" on it. Where was it parked? In my drive. Wut?
They wouldn’t have to do a thing. That’ll be lifted and a courtesy car dropped off and all taken care of without them batting an eye lid.
The risks are there, certainly, but it’s also a strictly monitored and planned event to ensure there’s measures in place should anything at all go wrong.
Most road racers wouldn’t entertain the idea of riding on an open road with normal traffic, dirty surfaces, uncontrolled environment etc. Sure Johnny Rea only passed his motorbike test a year or 2 ago…
Riding a bike fast in a non-race environment is much, much riskier, but you’ll never see them pulled off the market.
Glad for it, governments are taking away too much control from everything else, at least we still have this for now. Before we become a full on nanny state.
At least risks for spectators are minimal, as you can't watch close to any outside corners where they are likely to go off.
Remember when they used to be able to to watch rallying from the outside of corners? That was crazy, some amount of people got taken out when cars lost control.