The week starts with a major scandal for the national motorcycle federation after the events from this week-end. To start with the lighter incident – a racing motorcycle worth more than a few African countries GDP (or PIB for the French speaking ones) caught fire. It happens in a race; it only takes a spark for the high grade fuel to go up in flames. But what usually happens after is that a race inspector comes with a fire extinguisher and stops the flame and the race organizers come and pick up the rest of the motorcycle. Not in Romania. They don`t have fire extinguishers, not to mention a decent transportation to bring back the motorcycle wreck to the paddocks.
Yes, that is the race track.
Event number two, a racer lost control of his motorcycle and crashed, nothing new in this field of activity, but the reason – he started the race with major problems with his clutch. Where are the race track referees? The race (national championship) had only one referee.
And now to finish with the major event – a car entered the race track, done a lap, almost hit the juniors preparing for the start and exited the race where the paddocks should be, running over everybody in his path. I don`t question or judge his fucked up behavior, but I wish to ask the organizer of the race – how on earth can somebody pass security and enter the race track. The answer is simple; there is no security to stop you or me from entering the race track and crossing it during an ongoing race. There is nobody to clear the corners from people who watch the race, the organizers don’t even put a fence or along the race track.
To sum up the questions:
- Why is there no fire extinguisher at the race track?
- How can somebody have a race without firefighters and security?
- How can you have a race with only one referee and questionable technical inspection?
- How can the Romanian Motorcycle Federation approve such a race? If the money they receive is right, anything goes.
Racing in these conditions is suicide and I did not mention yet that there is no: decent toilet facility, washing facility for the motorcycles with proper waste disposal, not paddocks, secured access, parc ferme . Not even a proper runway.
I hope that this was the last race held in this conditions.
And now to something completely different, down in Africa, Loic and his mate are having a great time. More about their trip here.
