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Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes
I can envision a good close final...................ruined by two guys on the brakes so hard the both run into each other. That's an aweful idea
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I don't know that it's so awful, as long as your chassis/suspension/brakes are set up as many racers who hit the binders at the finish line are, so as to keep their vehicles under control no matter what...I remember a final from back in the late '70s to early '80s between I believe Jim Van Cleve, and Dave Boertman...both had Super Stockers that were at the fast end of Super Stock Eliminator, and both locked up their brakes so hard that they had a photo taken of them trailing tire smoke from their cars, and no wreck. Granted Glendora frowns on that now, but as long as you're not trailing smoke (or get squirley), then it's been acceptable because so many racers do it.
Bottom line, my ideal may be awful (sorry no "e" in awful), but neither is not having a worse redlight adjustment made to the tree, to give the same pressure to the faster car in a handicapped race for his rt., as the slower car. In a heads-up race, both cars have the same pressure, so why not change the tree for handicapped races too. As far as I'm concerned, if it's not changed, then I'd like to see wheelie bars ousted from rwd stockers if they won't be allowed on fwd stockers too....