Originally Posted by
Hermes
Mattm, I do not know if you remember the carnage in the 4s in 2010. There were a lot of bad crashes and it was heavily discussed on NCNCA forum. One of the possible reasons were large fields with racers upgrading too quickly from Cat 5. Then the Cat 5 fields were limited to 50.
I didn't live here back then, so I missed those discussions. But it seems to me the cause could probably be attributed to a few bad riders, rather than "5's who upgrade too early" in general. Every year is different, with a different crop of riders etc.
One of our 5's broke his collarbone in one of the 5's crashes yesterday.. that's racing I guess.