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06-18-2018, 08:50 PM | #21 |
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Re: Track Prep At National Events
Keith I'm surprised you haven't had trouble since it looks like you come off the stop somewhere around half track. 😂
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Re: Track Prep At National Events
I was told by a part time Funny car driver and a tech official here in California that they are watering down the VHT on the back half of the track to slow down the Pro cars.
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06-18-2018, 09:58 PM | #24 |
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Wonder if the NHRA lawyers are prepared for the negligent track prep lawsuits when back half crashes and collisions happen? Who would pay for a ticket to see even fewer side by side races?
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06-18-2018, 10:46 PM | #25 |
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Don’t doubt what you said Mike, should have simply asked if track prep was different for the FS cars...with that kind of track temps did they do extra prep for those cars and not for the rest of Stock? If that’s the case then it’s not about treatment down the track but how they managed bald spots and the first 330 and for which classes.
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I don't think we can compare what happened at Charlotte with any of the other problems. I think everyone has come to expect the first few pairs at Charlotte will have issues since there hasn't been a car down the track in who knows when at that race when we are down on on Friday morning. However I have seen instances this year first hand when cars have spun out like my round in the semis against Strickland at Atlanta this year. We came up and ran right after a round of the Pros and Jeff blew the tires slam off the thing and even though that's a high horsepower car I don't ever recall seeing him doing that anywhere else. Fortunately for him I had already redlighted.
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06-18-2018, 11:21 PM | #27 |
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This was the rumor I have heard from a few sources... Hope it’s wrong.
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Quote from Competition Plus article titled "HAGAN REMARKS TRIGGER TRACK-PREP DISCUSSION" ........ "What the NHRA did was change the compound-to-alcohol ratio, from 75 percent compound and 25 percent alcohol to 65 percent compound and 35 percent alcohol." That is what has changed.
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Mike was right, I thought I broke an axle pulled over the starter came running down and said hey why'd you pull over you spun really hard and I said what did you just say but that goes to show you the lack of track prep on a car that can hook in a car wash spun the tires so hard they had smoke coming off them
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Don’t know exactly what they changed but it is most certainly different![/QUOTE]
I agree.
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