RACEMoto’s Round two ran the weekend of June 20-21 at Shannonville, and FIM MotoMini’s own Round one shared the Saturday of it — their race day was June 20, on the track’s separate go-kart circuit, while RACEMoto’s long track ran through the Sunday. Two scoreboards, two circuits, one facility, and I spent a fair amount of that Saturday explaining to relatives on the phone why “he came second” and “he won” were both true statements about the same race.
Here is the untangled version. The combined Moto3&4 class runs Moto3 and Moto4 riders together on the same track, scored separately. Tammer Chehade won the Moto3 portion outright. Crosby came home second on the road overall — but since he was riding Moto4, not Moto3, that same finish was first place in his own category, ahead of Natalia Tanasic and Cole Hodgson.
I understand why that sentence needs a second read. It needed a second read for me too, standing at the fence with a stopwatch I wasn’t using for anything, before I worked out that my son had both lost and won the same race at the same time, and that neither description was the misleading one.
What I keep coming back to is how little any of that mattered to him at the finish line. He did not do the arithmetic on combined-class scoring. He crossed the line, saw people cheering, and assumed — correctly, as it turned out — that this was a good outcome. Sometimes the seven-year-old’s read on a result is the more accurate one.
