Don't get me wrong. Motorcycle road racing should not be a contact sport. It's ******* dangerous enough. I wish they both would have finished on 2 wheels - would have been a helluva dogfight. I thank the racing gods that no one was injured in this melee. And I thank the racing gods, and whoever else had a hand in it, that Eric Bostrom is with us today. He was within 2cm of very possibly us reading his obituary Saturday night...more on that later.
Racing involves strategy. The point where Danny parked it inside of Josh was very strategic. As soon as I saw it the first time, I saw exactly what he was doing. He was essentially saying 'are you kidding me? keep giving me the inside line and I'll keep taking it'. Danny took a very similar line through that turn each and every lap. Josh even said so. Scott picked up on it while announcing it. Josh tried to shut the door on the lap where he went down, but, the problem was that he didn't hold the line tight. He apexed early, didn't hold the line, and when he tried to tighten up, too late, Danny was already there.
Congrats to Martin Cardenas on a well earned and hard fought championship
Now, onto Eric Bostrom. For those that haven't heard, in the last corner of the last lap, while fighting for 5th place, Brett McCormick went in way too hot and crashed taking out himself and Eric Bostrom. Watching the race, you never would have thought that there was much wrong with Eric. He jumped right up and was limping a bit. Seemed normal. Unfortunate, but normal. However, when they stripped his leathers off, this is what they found (note: gotta be on Facebook to view it and WARNING: not for the squeamish!!!! You have been warned).
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=6706942&id=88396511912&ref=fbx_album scan through the pics in the album.
The gash was 2cm from his femoral artery. They're saying that if it would have cut that, he most likely would have bled to death factoring in the time it took the medical crew to get to him. It took 102 stitches to close it up.
By the way...McCormick also had a run-in with Josh Hayes during Sunday's race. Sent Josh out into the grass while Josh was just trying to mind his own business and win a championship. Him crashing could have very easily cost him his championship. Perhaps there is too much focus on Herrin and Eslick and not enough on McCormick????
BTW - wfooshee and motortoad, thanks for working the corners and keeping the riders safe. I did see you on TV - great job handling the situations. And as far saying nobody brakes deeper or harder than Eslick, watch the last motogp race again and keep an eye on Ben Spies