Check out the video of Leon Camier's crash there as well.....the Mountain is unique in that bike's get totally off the ground under full power and if you come down even a teensy bit wrong, you get a few months rehab to think it over.
I have been to that track as a spectator and it is just stunning.....a golfcart track through the woods, up and down, twisting and turning.....one of the greatest tracks anywhere......no manicured half mile wide asphalt here with acres of runoff....you have to have real balls to ride here....separates the men from the boys.
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That track would banned due to the lack of safety run-off sometime around yesterday?
Thats just silly. Balls? You might need to be a bit retarded.
Maybe that was fine and good when people rode 50cc 2 smokers but today? With 1000cc? Wait... even 750cc?
laughable.
I've done both trackdays and a race there in the late 90s and altho the track itself was fun to ride you were clearly aware of the lack of run off especially through Hall Bends (wooded bit) and The Hairpin (the tyre wall was on tyhe edge of the track).
Since I was last there there have been massive improvements, if you fell off you were likely to hit something hard, infact Yukio Kagayama almost had a career ending crash there which resulted in more "improvements".
I'm not keen on the place altho not as much as Malory Park but it is close. I was offered a seat in an indurance race there a couple of months ago and turned it down it would have been a rush to get my ACU licence in time anyway I had one weeks notice but I have to be honest if I did have my licence I'd have jumped at the chance and I'm hard pushed myself to understand why.
Most BSB riders I belive don't want to ride there but when you are contracted to ride you ride.
I belive it was the left hander at the begining of the mountain section , comming off the small straight that leads off Mansfield. they have since added a mikey mouse chicane to slow bikes down and moved the tyre wall/ banking back.
I did 2 trackdays there when I was stationed in the UK- easily one of my favorite tracks! The mountain is scary, I hit it as fast as I could and could only manage to wheely over the top- these guys are going psycho fast to be able to jump it like they do- Karl Harris used to get like 2 feet of air over it on a 600!
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