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I am unaware of there ever being a mishap with the gate finish Marc. Your
basic premise is that the gate finish is unsafe. I disagree and feel that it is safer than the alternatives presented to date. Re your "testosterone" idea....yup you're correct.....I do enjoy watching the ground rush by and my crew enjoys it too along with the spectators that show up. We have made an already poor spectator sport into a truly horrible one with some of these changes. I'm not looking to make it a Red Bull death defying race but honestly think that it is the one single time in the race that is nice to watch. Now if it were less safe than the other finishes I would not argue to use it but as I said it is at least as safe. I challenge you to present hard facts to counter that. If I'm wrong about that being liked by the spectators then maybe you can explain why they can't keep enough copies of UK Smokin' in production to satisfy all the orders. Like you said.....you guys that are worried about the safety issues with the current rules can by all means have your own races with each competitor having their own separate start cylinder and the finish being a 2 mile 2000' AGL minimum. Now THAT would be safe....but I won't be participating. Casey Lenox KC Phoenix |
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