East Coast Mud Racing

As I told everyone, I want your honest opinion on the pit. Please lets all try to be nice while judging and also look at it from in and out of the box, meaning racer and spectator.

Guess I will be the first....

I thought the pit was pretty good. At first it seemed not to be that great. I was looking at when you hug the inside wall of turns 1 and 2 it was steep, and leaned the bikes hard. Then the hole that tim wilson jr got in seemed to bottle neck the best path, which if you were put in the wrong spot you had a big potential to get screwed. As the racing went on the inside lane got leveled out, but the muck on the outside was still there. Regardless of the muck the racing seemed to have a good pace, and caused some fender to fender bumping racing. Which I love, bumping is racing. The biggest downside to the pit was when someone got stuck. When they were stuck they were really in trouble! Then it took so long to get people out, that a lot of the spectators got bored, and left to go riding. Im not just saying this because it was my class, but the ruv was side by side racing almost all the time, and nobody was really there to see it. It was good racing, but I would love to see the pit with the muck gone and see how the racing is. If you could have two bikes go into turns 1 and 2 side by side and come out side by side then hit the back stretch and hit that spot where you could just fly I think it would make for a lot of "damn that was close" finishing...

I feel the same way but want to add a few things.

Possibly switch it up a bit by making a outside corner in a turn shallower than the inside. The reason behind that would be it may be quiker to swing wide than to hug the inside wall. but the inside wall culd possibly be quiker depend on the choice of the racer. In other words some racers might would want to swing wide and others stay inside lane. Then there wuldnt be fight for inside lane.

Also I saw a youtube video of a recent race and there muddacross had a straight wall at the beganing of the pit to back up to. You actually touch the back wall with your back rack to start off. I would make lining up much easier and if it gets dug out bad just move the starting line up a notch but you culd still line up with the wall.

Just 2 suggestions.

Thanks,

The pit needs a lot of work. The amount of crap that I brought home from that pit was crazy. Hunks of asphalt and various pieces of metal. I had roofing felt wrapped around my axles. I believe Scott has some sort of metal shoved in the side of one of his outlaws. That pit needs to be drained somehow and fixed. What happened to to Tim Wilson Jr...should not have happened. He had no way of even getting out to make up time. The pit should never be that way. There should never be a spot where you CANNOT get out.

The starting line needs to be level for three bikes. Some bikes were half in the water and some were not. That was just because of the uneven pit. Busco needs work...

But that is just my honest opinion.