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Mark Yacavone 01-25-2023 12:09 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY (Post 674772)
Jody Lang, Toby Lang, Scott Welborn , and other assorted drivers that went rounds deep staging ……
,, Donnie Sabin #2 that year

Mike McCandless 01-25-2023 12:23 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcarter (Post 674778)
At the big bucks foot brake races where deep staging is common the starters are more alert. You can put DEEP on your window at local tracks and the starter activates the tree early you’re NOT going to get a rerun. For that reason alone I haven’t deep staged in 30 years, find a way to cut a light or go home.
It sounds like they did find a way to cut a light, but some didn't like it. Racers have pushed against rules since the start of time. Rule interpretation is the corner stone of drag racing. Always has been, always will be.

Mark Yacavone 01-25-2023 12:24 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
I know it's the silly season so bear with me.

The pre-stage light was put there for the driver in that lane's benefit..Nothing more.
Using it to red light or blue light a driver is beyond the scope of it's intended usage.
A typical NHRA over-reaction.

Turn off the blue light, the courtesy staging , the auto start, the time out, etc. and let the starter do his job (see Buster Couch)

How did we ever survive the 70's ?
Jerry McClanahan deep staged every round except the final, at the Amarillo World Finals...Nobody whined or complained or even said a word that I remember.

Billy Nees 01-25-2023 12:29 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Larry Hill (Post 674777)
You know me Billy I would probably do it a little differently. Remember I do race a pentastar car
LARRY!!!!!! You need a Neon!

Billy Nees 01-25-2023 12:36 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike McCandless (Post 674787)
Racers have pushed against rules since the start of time. Rule interpretation is the corner stone of drag racing. Always has been, always will be.
and "since the start of time" until fairly recently, NHRA Tech pushed back. Which is sorely missing here in the 3rd decade of the 21st century.

Future Super Stocker 01-25-2023 09:59 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
To many cry babies most likely. So a sunvisor which is a factory item needs to be removed? I highly think NOT! Stop it already!

Jim Caughlin 01-26-2023 12:58 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Future Super Stocker (Post 674815)
To many cry babies most likely. So a sunvisor which is a factory item needs to be removed? I highly think NOT! Stop it already!
OEM sun visors are still legal. What I pointed out is that most SS and Stockers have roll cages so the sun visor likely can't be flipped up and down. Based on that, mine will be in a permanent down position (which is totally legal per the currently written rules) but a much larger obstacle to my forward vision than my current 8 sq inches of blinder. If those are the new rules, so be it but not well thought out.

Alan Roehrich 01-26-2023 01:05 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin (Post 674845)
OEM sun visors are still legal. What I pointed out is that most SS and Stockers have roll cages so the sun visor likely can't be flipped up and down. Based on that, mine will be in a permanent down position (which is totally legal per the currently written rules) but a much larger obstacle to my forward vision than my current 8 sq inches of blinder. If those are the new rules, so be it but not well thought out.



Another EXCELLENT example of poorly written rules, especially those driven by insurance companies and lawyers.

Jim Caughlin 01-26-2023 02:00 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich (Post 674847)
Another EXCELLENT example of poorly written rules, especially those driven by insurance companies and lawyers.
After my conversations with NHRA and reading between the lines, I have no doubt that this was a result of lawyers and probably a lawsuit. I also have no doubt that there will be no upcoming compromise on this new rule, it is what it is.

L.Fite 01-26-2023 06:57 PM
Re: No Blinders
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin (Post 674855)
After my conversations with NHRA and reading between the lines, I have no doubt that this was a result of lawyers and probably a lawsuit. I also have no doubt that there will be no upcoming compromise on this new rule, it is what it is.
So...
By that logic, we have to wait for someone to get run over by another class that uses blinders and sue before it's banned in that class?

(I have no dog in this fight, just asking)
:rolleyes:


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