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Originally Posted by chuckie stella
Yeh right! 
Amazing how things bite you in the backside Tone as I think RBR would've put me 2nd so wouldn't have been held up by you in the finals! lmfao!!!!  |
LOL
We all have opinions, Tony has and indeed "had" his on the day, I had mine and everyone else did too - thats all good!!
Down to me, FTD plain and simple, always has been, most likely always will on that track, simply because it DOES work, but we asked the crowd and of the "6" juniors, 1 voted RBR and 5 voted FTD, even if you take those six out (or even if they ALL voted RBR), we still had 85+ "adults" who voted with a large majority for FTD.
Both Kev and Glenn were capable of doing fast laps "all day" in fact if you take Kev's best laps, in round 1 he did a 15.67, round 2 a 15.92, round 3 16.00 and round 4 15.73, similiar for Glenn, with 16.38, 16.54, 16.42, 16.13 in his four runs, the story is the saem all the way down the heat listings - the track got no faster or no slower all day - FACT!!! In fact in round 3 before he broke Kev was on for a better time than he got in round 4 at one point about 2 minutes in. The "honest reason" why some people (only about a 1/3rd of all those racing) got their best in round 4 is because you have learnt the lines etc on the track and had all day to perfect your setups etc.......
Basically that ends all of the speculation, talk and debate really on if FTD or RBR was right, the track
was no different from round 1 to round 4 and for that reason was perfect for FTD, simples, now we can all move on to the next topic you all want to debate about ;-)
Edit - just to add....
Tight track? It was 3 meters wide everywhere (4 meters off the end of the straight) except for it being narowed to 2.8m on some of the jumps (the width of the timber we used to make them).
No overtaking? There was LOADS of awesome and clean overtaking moves in all heats and finals all day long......
15 second laps? Only for the very special guys, most mere mortals were 16-17 seconds plus, which for an indoor track (and many outdoor tracks too for that matter) is a very respectable lap time. Kev was doing 17 second laps at the regional at Stotfold two weeks ago!!
On the plus side, great, close nailbiting racing right until the end (no pre-witten or guarrenteed A finalalists after just 3 rounds here), we all stayed warm and dry all day and the curry was lovely too!! LOL