Originally Posted by Landgolier

Totally useless comparison. Road races involve dozens or even hundreds of riders and all kinds of unexpected conditions on the road. The only unexpected stuff on a track is the other riders, and the whole mentality of track racing is "don't do anything unexpected or you'll get us all f***ing killed." Not that roadies don't try to be predictable as well, but it's a whole other thing on the track. The only comparison would be a mass start race with about 50 people, about 5 holes knocked in the track, big screens so the turns are blind, somebody emptying bags of trash in front of a big fan on the backstretch, and maybe the occasional squirrel release. Yeah, that would be fun.