The Last Hurrah at Phillip Island

They are saying the conditions are too dangerous as the nearest major hospital is not near enough…
Why has that not been a problem for a dry track?

I remember setting up comms at the Albert Park GP a number of years ago. There was an extremely well appointed temporary ICU ward on track, minutes from major hospitals.
 
I arrived home an hour ago from the house we were using as our GP base. Took minor backroads all the way on Emily's GS, she drove - conditions were atrocious. I didn't know my old wet weather gear was totally useless until i tested it out in that 3+ hour ride - arrived home soaked to the last layer - everything.

As i understand it the medi chopper has to have visibility to be able to fly in a medical emergency - that degree of visibility stayed away today!

And visibility for a rider behind another doing 320kph on full wets - you wouldn't see jack shize until you ran up his arse. Very glad i got to see the sprint and M2 and M3 qualifying in the dry yesterday. Au revoir, PI GP!
 
Sad ending, happened before though. The riders had a meeting, and a large bunch said no to too much standing water. That was the majority, but not all of them that day.
 
Ha Q, what's this blue line I hear spoken of happily? It sounds a bit ominous. Meet and greet with the local Cops. Surely they don't allow filtering in the breakdown lane to exit when traffic is crazy. Sounds to sensible to me.
 
Cops were totally fine - no idea why some people are badmouthing them. The blue line allows the fuzz to turn a two-way road into two lanes in one direction and one in the other - we exited the GP circuit headed out and over the San Remo bridge in two lines, cars to the right, bikes to the left, part or all of which was the verge (it's not really an emergency lane). It flowed really well.

Coming in from the south (non-Melbourne) yesterday the cars came to a dead stop about 2km before a roundabout where you turn left for PI - it's illegal to 'lane filter' between cars and the verge in Vic, but thousands of us took that option - not a cop in sight laying down the law - they were being sensible and focusing on places where they were actually needed.

BTW, you would have loved the Red Bull air racing plane doing insane stunts above the circuit - some breathtaking manoevres. I loved it - and the cloud was so low, he'd disappear into it but you could hear him somewhere up there and would exit upside down somewhere else or hang up there in a dead stop stall then flop over backwards and cartwheel down like he was totally out of control, only to pull into a low save - at times he was below 'ground level' disappearing under the cliffs over Bass Strait.
 
motoddrob said:
Im in Thailand Q so 3 hours behind.
Besides that, even if in west Oz I dont have TV or Sat reception where I live so my limited TV viewing comes via internet, and I wouldn't give my money to Kayo/Fox sports cause Murdoch is a cunt.
I watch all the MotoGP by downloading it so I have to wait for someone to record it then upload it for me to download so I dont get to see it live.
I usually download the English TNT coverage as I like Neil Hodgson, Michael Laverty and Sylvan Guintolli's take on it.
Anyway getting back to the race,
That Sprint was probably one of the best this year till Martin lost it.
He was seriously pushing it and MM was so much more in control.
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Well that makes all the diff - I take it all back - you can sleep in tomoz :ROFLMAO:
 
I follow it on Motomatters.com, which I support with a subscription. Excellent write up and analysis there. I rarely watch sport on screen, not savvy enough to find it free and baulk at paying for a hundred soccer matches of zero interest just to get GP and SBK. Also with all the talk of processional races and people saying they fell asleep or fast forwarded it due to the way the bikes and tracks have become that very few races are actually exciting.
Losing P.I. mainly because of refusing to hold it early in the year to not clash with the car race doesn´t make sense. The long and expensive travel to Oz, or even within Oz, for most enthusiasts is rarely worth it for one long weekend event, but if they were consecutive weekends it would entice many more to endure the travel.
 
motoddrob said:
Got a few mates that road over for the final GP. Long way to go for a sprint race
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Always the risk, eh - I made a long weekend of it, staying at a country house, some riding and whatever racing I made the effort to catch. So in the end, it's often the journey, not the destination. The ride home on backroads on the GS in saturated conditions this arvo was certainly memorable!! Discovered I need all new wet weather gear!
 
Probably more to it that that.
Upgrade facilities, distance from Melbourne and $$$
Why a street circuit in Adelaide?
When there is international 1st class facilities at the Bend.
Probably the distance from Adaliade.
And the perchance of the new owners for street circuits like F1
 
The intense Police action happened well away from the circuit over the years. My record for nightmare trips to race meets had me drive from Sydney to Taralgon, approx. 1000 km to spectate at the World 6-day Enduro Championship. I missed the one year before at Cessnock, so I was determined to see Traralgon. I arrived at the end of day1 and watched the 300 competitors arrive back in Pac Ferma, and I watched Shane Watts change a bib mouse tube in 4 minutes, and then I went looking for a bed in a Pub. Apparently the 10,000 visits had taken it all local. 400ks north I finally found a bed. That night it pissed down, and every creek broke there banks, and they stopped the event. So I had to drive 2000 km to watch someone change 2 tyres, and the drove home.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
As i understand it the medi chopper has to have visibility to be able to fly in a medical emergency - that degree of visibility stayed away today!
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reporting on live TV zeroed in on the Medi Vac chopper being unable to fly to Melbourne due to visibility issues hence to dangerous to race
Track side "Experts" were reporting track itself was okay to race on

I worked on Heli transported Oil and Gas rigs for a number of years in PNG, Brazil and Siberia
Those Aussie pilots would never get a start in those countries flying choppers, what a fucking joke

In PNG, Kiwi pilots, we used to take the doors off of the Choppers so we had better visibility to try and find the Drilling rig, find the Water pumps at the lower level and then follow the Water line to the rig 2,500 feet up, could not see shit majority of the time

Brazil, flying to site or back in treacheous torrential downpours, Siberia, flying Irkutsk to site or back in a busted arse ex Miltarily Soviet chopper in blizzards
Let alone the rigs out in the North Sea where they face horendous conditions to do rig crew changes and medi vacs by Chopper
Bunch of soft cocks, totally disgusted in the outcome, absolute joke

Only advantage Adelaide will have in this set of circumstances is medical transport will be by Ambulance to the nearest Hospital as opposed to Choppers because of distance
 
Tis right Red, bunch of Prima donnas, put em in an ambo & send em to Wonthaggi….. job done.
Lotta pissed off entusiasts on the Isle.

Miller didn’t have a problem pullin stand up monos rnd the track & stoppies in front of tower during parade lap at end of day…… track was good to go racing!
 
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