Re: Excessive Breaking?
 

Rulings related to this topic for a very, very long time have been very subjective. I have seen people lock them up next to me and move on with just a slap on the wrist, people get tossed for doing it and the other person reinstated, and everything in between. For once, NHRA needs to get rid of the ambiguity, put it in writing in the rulebook, and let us racers know what is what instead of making their decisions off the cuff every round or every race based on how they feel at that moment in time.

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Come on guys, give me a brake with all this nonsense. Of coarse we kneed to think safety, butt at what point dew we draw the line. Don't mean two sound course, NHRA should bee concerned with this situation, they mite set a precedent if they included it inn the rules. Eye believe that if they did, someone wood invent a smokeless tire.

New Rule Rule; their will bee know smoking at the Finnish line.

ron ortiz
you Stock aw toe matt tick

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I know there's a number of people on here that have calling for someone to get DQed over excessive braking but I doubt anyone thinks this is legit. Obviously some kind of payback involved. Don't think the word "smoke" has ever been in the rule book with regards to excessive braking. Always been a "starter's discretion" kind of call as far as I know. What I never see mentioned in the many discussions I've read about guys lighting up their tires at the finish line is the fact that it's a fail on the driver's part regardless of the safety aspect. You're heavy on the brakes to scrub speed. If your tires are lit up you're not doing that! No different than spinning on the starting line. What Jerry did there was pretty much text book on doing it well. Nice job!!

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Video on you tube lol pretty neat kinda shows what NHRA is looking for!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDuxJaX3Y3E

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Is that the run in question? There was definitely smoke in that shot.

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No !!

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I sea what you did their.

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Im all for excessive braking which includes smoke, lane change before or after finishline, out of control even though you stay between lane lines. The Emmons race was called WRONG. No smoke, no lane change, no out of control. I would like to see the prior round that he was supposedly warning.

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I agree with Bob Mulry`s assessment....And suggest a closer look at timing tower Nepotism as well............

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It might be time for big wide tires on the front to help braking....ya only need skinnys on heads up runs. I can see it coming.