I remember when Carey Mahoney came to Newtown Dragway. I had parked close to his hauler and I was running in the street class. Between rounds I would work the starter for him when we was pulled to the starting line. His 1st pass had a big mph number but the car carried the front end really high due to his wheelie bars being set high from the different track condition he had ran in Michigan. He cranked the bars down for the track conditions and between that and the moisture leaving the track he never got close to that number again. At that time those passes were way faster than anything we had seen back then.
i've been to gilbert 5 or 6 times, i do appreciate the work and effort put into the racing. but one thing i think needs improvement is the announcing , we don't get much information, riders names, classes etc..., what we do hear is very limited. i think more people would come and enjoy watching if they knew what was going on. but i'm not complaining, just an observation. love the podcast...
Definitely something we agree on. Getting good announcers is hard. Especially for large events. There’s only so much you can put on an announcer card, so a lot of it comes down to how well the announcer knows the bikes and riders in that case.
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I remember when Carey Mahoney came to Newtown Dragway. I had parked close to his hauler and I was running in the street class. Between rounds I would work the starter for him when we was pulled to the starting line. His 1st pass had a big mph number but the car carried the front end really high due to his wheelie bars being set high from the different track condition he had ran in Michigan. He cranked the bars down for the track conditions and between that and the moisture leaving the track he never got close to that number again. At that time those passes were way faster than anything we had seen back then.
i've been to gilbert 5 or 6 times, i do appreciate the work and effort put into the racing. but one thing i think needs improvement is the announcing , we don't get much information, riders names, classes etc..., what we do hear is very limited. i think more people would come and enjoy watching if they knew what was going on. but i'm not complaining, just an observation. love the podcast...
Definitely something we agree on. Getting good announcers is hard. Especially for large events. There’s only so much you can put on an announcer card, so a lot of it comes down to how well the announcer knows the bikes and riders in that case.