supercross: the movie

[itgirl]

anybody seen it? it was on fX the other night. i was bored and it had bikes in it, so i watched it. kinda cheesy.

anyways, the plot was about these 2 brothers that race supercross as privateers. then one brother gets picked up for a factory ride, however, his main job is not to win, but to run interference with other riders so the star of the team gets on the podium.

does that stuff happen in the real racing world? does one teammate exist solely to keep others outta the real star's way? or is it just hollywood fantasy?

[Trip]

I remember that piece o shit movie. That thing was bad. I know that kind of shit use to happen in F1 all the time, don't know about moto.

[Cutty72]

yeah, i have it... burned a copy one time. It's ok.
I'm sure stuff like that happens in any race team. Probably not gonna can one team member if they take the win over the other. Unless they take OUT the "star" to do it however.

[dReWpY]

ppl help out teammates, used to work for a large mx team ...

[itgirl]

that's just playin' dirty though.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by itgirl

that's just playin' dirty though.

not really.
the purpose of a race is to win
if i'm blocking you, i was at some point obviously faster in some way than you.
If I then block your passing lane, forcing you to stay behind me, I must be in some way a better rider/racer.

It's the name of the game.

I don't think they ever purposly crashed anyone out... but it's been awhile since i've seen it... that would be dirty.

[itgirl]

i see your point, if it's just you against that other person. but if your teammate is purposely blocking people so you can win, that doesn't say much about your skills then.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by itgirl

i see your point, if it's just you against that other person. but if your teammate is purposely blocking people so you can win, that doesn't say much about your skills then.

Ya gotta get to the front to be able to win... even if others are blocked... you still got there.

[byron12]

Originally Posted by itgirl

i see your point, if it's just you against that other person. but if your teammate is purposely blocking people so you can win, that doesn't say much about your skills then.

The main pirpose of racing is for factories to showcase their products and win. Since their funding is nessacary for racing to even exist things like team orders are reality it is not actually as bad as it sounds because winning races is about alot more than simply being fast strategy is how you win and team orders are simply part of overall strategy that factory teams use to win races.
One of my favorite examples of team orders was back in the day of world rally being on american tv. It was the rally corsica and francios delecore the crazy frenchman driving for peuguot was leading the rally and peaguot needed marcus gronholm to win as he was leading the drivers championship so they ordered delecore to step aside and let marcus win he drove like a crazed mad man whooped gronholms ass and then pulled over right b efore the finish and let him win...

[Quick281]

Originally Posted by byron12

One of my favorite examples of team orders was back in the day of world rally being on american tv. It was the rally corsica and francios delecore the crazy frenchman driving for peuguot was leading the rally and peaguot needed marcus gronholm to win as he was leading the drivers championship so they ordered delecore to step aside and let marcus win he drove like a crazed mad man whooped gronholms ass and then pulled over right b efore the finish and let him win...

What Fing weaksauce!!!! I would have been out raged and thats as a viewer.