VOL. 52 ISSUE 42 OCTOBER 20, 2015 P55
Briefly...
not in his plans to return to racing any
time soon, but that doesn't mean he
wasn't having fun out there messing
with guys who still race for a living.
There are right ways and wrong
ways to design sand sections into
Supercross tracks, and Feld Motor-
sports and the Dirt Wurx crew have
done it right and wrong quite a lot
over the years. The wrong way is to
have sand turns of any kind. When-
ever a sand section includes a turn, it
turns into a one-lined affair, because
the sand pushes out into one main
line, and passing becomes nearly
impossible. The right way is to have
sand in a straight line, with or with-
out preformed bumps. When sand
sections are done like this, it can
separate some guys, and it makes
passing easier for the faster racers.
At the Monster Energy Cup, they did
it right and then some. The sand was
downright sketchy and had the rac-
ers on their toes on every single lap.
There was a long, fast sweeper and
straightaway leading up to the sand,
then a steep jump made out of the
track's standard clay. On the back-
side of that jump, though, was some
loose, wet beach sand. During prac-
tice, the fast way through seemed to
be to slow significantly for the jump
and stay as close to the ground as
possible so that they could get on
the throttle and power through the
sand, but that eventually led to a
large bump forming a little ways into
the sand as the racers began digging
a hole early in the sand section when
they would get on the gas so hard.
By race time, that bump essentially
turned into the second jump in a dou-
ble, and racers were hitting the first
jump and landing on the backside
Jason Anderson (21)
captured three straight
holeshots and a new
Toyota truck. He
might've won the whole
thing but the Joker
Lane got the last laugh
at Anderson's expense.
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