Air fences, the good & the bad?

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Obviously the plus points far far outweigh the minuses but one point of concern is where the fences lift up basically exposing the solid fence behind - seen one report which alleges that possibly happened with Holder at Brandon

The bit that really makes me wince though is when they follow the bike in which invariably stops dead tangled up in the fence and rarely gets away from the air fence as it might have before we had them (although with probably far worse consequences I know)

Impossible to make speedway completely safe though but improvements can always be made

For instance, wasn't Lukas Dryml's GP crash (when he was on course for the title) partly caused by the air fence on the straight sucking the bike in. We don't see air fences on the straight now.

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Jul 6, 2013 8:39:25 GMT admin said:

Obviously the plus points far far outweigh the minuses but one point of concern is where the fences lift up basically exposing the solid fence behind - seen one report which alleges that possibly happened with Holder at Brandon

And to prove the point:

Chris Holder ‏@chris_Holder23

What's the use of an air fence if it just lifts up wen you hit it! Feet first concrete wall! Ouch!!!!!

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Serious design fault which needs sorting:



Someone said the worst crash they'd seen. I think not, just one of those with one of the worst possible outcomes. Sometimes they walk away but sadly this was not one of those.