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He is 100% correct. They take 12 to the final outdoors, now they have 14 indoors on a track half the size?
That makes this race mostly luck. Beamish never had good position, he didn't race it tactically well. He was VERY fortunate that a gap opened up.
Beamish still won fair and square and he earned the win. But no matter what, half of the field was going to get tripped and pushed and shoved so much that they'd have no chance.
It’s more strategy than luck.
Beamish gambles that if he’s middle of the pack in a slow race and exerts little energy his finish is so good that he can catch maybe everybody.
Kessler thinks if he runs in first or second making moves to preserve that, everyone will have to either run so much extra distance or get stuck too far back to catch him even if he doesn’t have a blazing last 100.
Hockers gambit was to stay in the front half with subtle moves on the rail getting to 2nd or 3rd with a lap to go and trusting his kick to beat 1-2 and hold off anyone else.
Hocker had Mehari cutting in on him, running erratically. It set the stage for Nordas to get by him and add another body to pass wide. Still he had it all work out except for Beamishs gamble paying off as Cole was hanging on and he was accelerating.