Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

Well that tells the story then.... that is cool that Jay did that.

In my situation it was later on Saturday, so i was S.O.L.

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

I'm just sitting here wondering what it's like to have two cars in the garage ready to race... And what it's like to live close enough to a track to be able to load up a car, go home, unload it, load up the other, drive back, and unload in time to be in tech within 79 minutes. The track we raced at last weekend was an 8.5 hour drive -- each way. :eek:

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

He didn't take the broke car home, he just went home and loaded the other car on another trailer and pulled it to the track with another truck........And that's the rest of the story!!!

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

Almost as impressive. Has two cars capable of running in the same class, both sitting there ready to go. Has another spare truck and trailer sitting there too. And lives close enough to be there and back in just over an hour. I have none of those three conditions. :)

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

The S/C driver was Chris Bear and he always has two diggers in his trailer. A friend of his was going to race the other car in the bracket race. Chris had a crack in a cylinder head below the Jesel rocker bar. He went and asked Jay if he could switch cars and Jay said as long as it wasnt entered or been teched it was fine.

I think both drivers handled the situation well within the rules.

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

You aren't required to make a time run in the .90 classes, are you? While it was years ago, I have run both a divisional (and ended up in the semis) and a national without time runs (in both cases I had broken the car bracket racing it the prior Wednesday, and had to scramble it back together). The divisional involved two trailer flats too on the way! Nobody even questioned it, although it was traffic jam of people trying to line up next to me first round!

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

You're right, time runs are a courtesy for SC/SG racers.

Note the conspicuously absent Super categories. There's no ladder until after round one, so it doesn't matter. Under "Ladders":

You could show up for round one and go. Tough to be competitive, but it's been done.

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

Yup, I was worried there would be fender-benders in the scramble to get at the duck for 1st round. I remember thinking at the time, I didn't care if I won any more rounds, I just wanted to send the "winning" duck hunter home! I managed to do that both times.

Re: Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??
 

I love being thought to be the duck. When we first started running, it was a stitch to have people hunt us out, with my daughter (who is 24 but looks 16) driving, and then send them home. After a short while, they learned and went duck hunting elsewhere.