Watch the rider (Ayen) on the Husqvarna brand 2008 WR250 (2nd rider from the left with the ProGrip goggles) coming outta the hole here ... He knows how to get a holeshot and win races :0) ...That's why he is on my Husqvarna bike :O) -- This is the reason why a little house is built around the gate keeper also ... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL5zQBb35VQ
When it happened live, I thought something looked a little different about it but had to see the video to catch how he timed the gate ...
The race I was at this weekend was small enough that no house was around the gate guy and I did watch the guy and not the gate in the 1st moto and I think it did help coming out of the hole... But somewhere later in the day they tied a long string on the gate arm that drops it allowing the gate-dropper to get well out of your vision unless you sat backwards on the bike ...
I tried to time it like that last year at a track we only visit once a year. There was a little lag time (or I was a little too eager) between when he pulled the bar, and the gates dropped. I rammed it hard enough that I got stuck in it, and had to move the bike back to get it to drop. By the time I launched, half the class was already at the first turn
Yep ... I see guys trying to be rolling up to the gate as it drops and usually they are left in the dust unless they get lucky on the roll-up ... -- I used to get hung on the gate because I'd be real close to it and leave at the first twitch of the gate ... Now I get back from the gate 3' or so and can leave at about the first twitch and still make it over the gate ... -- I have to remember to pin the throttle now on my way to the corner ... I seem to jump out the gate ~ok, crack the throttle, and engage the clutch but forget to pin it WFO after over the gate ....
