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Valleunga, Return to Death Valley.

For the fans who don’t know Vallelunga, you’ve got to know a few details to understand why most of the guys in the paddock went there with shoes made of lead.

At the start, this track was an oval made of sand for dirt track racing. With time, it’s been added some extra corners and a proper surface to call it a circuit.

Until last year and our first venue for the Official tests, the stand were still too close to the track and most riders have been complaining about safety ‘cause of the small gaps in between track surface and walls. Apparently, their wishes for safety have been landing somewhere on a desk where budget for useless things were more important.

So last year race took place with the disastrous organisation we knew. Support races like Superstock classes had to bring tyres racks with scooter help on a road open to traffic to get back to their own paddock, somewhere on the hills around the circuit.

This year, the perspective of just having Superbike and Supersport should have solved most of problems. Apparently, the wish to create some new ones was to strong.

When you’re racing in World Championship and you have to run out of electric power during sessions, it makes you screaming and struggling for the poor guy speeding on the black ribbon.

Worst when you learn that this lack of power is due to some additional power supplies not hired for money costs. At the same time, you can see the big SBK lounge empty with all its blue lights on. Useful… as useful as the ‘bodyguards’ who are checking the wrong passes at the wrong places and keeping free each stair of each access with their black XXS sized costumes and their top-pro-ear radio systems.

Useless has also been considered the carriage way to bring back crashed bike to the pit. Explanation: If you crash in the infield, there is no chance to have your bike back before the end of the session. So, if your rider is crashing twice the same place, he just has to watch the end of session from the tyre wall. And he’ll get no help of journalist or photographers to bring him back to the garages as they can not run this wide area for their duty. Strange…

Last point but not least, the poor 100.000 people who’ve been paying their tickets for the great show have been very disappointed not to see anything from the to high stands. Apart from the main stand in front of the garages, they could just see the far part of the track with micro-bikes running… and hear the roaring sound of the bikes passing just under their stand. Frustrating…

Sure that this is not one of the best I wrote. Sure the all paddock wants to have this race cancelled for next year and never hear again the name of the roman track. Sorry for all the serious persons who were really concerned for this event to be a great one. They’ll understand.