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[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

I kinda like the way your "friend" thinks!

However, I don't feel that the indexes should be lowered. I also don't want to go back to the old "run off the record" days. It would hurt Racer participation too much.
I would like to see more tech, more teardowns and more adherence to the rules as written. Also stepping back a few years regarding rules which have been "liberalized" in order to make tech more able to be enforced by fewer and less knowledgeable inspectors.

Maybe NHRA should come up with a "rule" regarding E.T.s VS. trap speeds.
For example, if your "friend" has a mid-10 second car and is suddenly going 100-105 MPH then he's DQd.
I mean after all, high-speed braking is a "safety issue" right? ;-)

I can tell you for a fact Billy that we never would have started the SLOBALT build if the indexes were 3 or 4 tenths faster. I don't like the idea of a 10% rule either for DQ'ing based on running a certain MPH or whatever. There's too many chances for illegitimate DQ's there.

Opponent messed up and high gear went out in my trans. I get the W but tech comes up and tells me since I pushed in the clutch due to my parts failure I lost the round? I was just jacking my car up to put in my spare transmission to make the call for 3rd round which will be run after the pros are done for the day...but now my opponent who lets say broke out gets to go run r3 instead because of my MPH being down.

No matter what, the MPH rule doesn't sit right with me. But in my scenario above...it would really not sit well with me!