Re: Imitation: The Most Sincerest Form Of Flattery
 

Very well stated

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Just got back from Pomona.

All this drama and not one car in the back of the lanes in the picture won.Imagine that.

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Don't really care about when my opponent wants to show up. Except when the head of staging tells me I have a "break bye" and to move to such and such lane and I will run with two other break byes after the paired cars go down. Now if that official had said "your opponent is working trying to make it and he may show up as he notified us of his situation" that is a whole different story. Long story short, and this happened 3 times with the same guy, he shows up as late as possible because he has a buddy in the lanes on a cell phone, drives by me and into his choice of lanes. No flip. Nothing. Leaving me putting a dial in on the car and in a rush. BS. I lost one and won two. First time it got in my head. Second and third time I had already talked to the starter and explained the situation. We both started burnouts , I immediately shut off in the water and waited, and waited, and run weather, and waited. Finally hit the starter did the normal burnout and proceeded to win the round. Anybody can run their "program" anyway they want until it affects MY program. Also running two classes isn't my problem. And before anybody starts second guessing this wasn't Dan. Bottom line: If you don't think you can beat me fair and square in either lane you don't even need to be there.

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Deleted.....not worth the comment. Sorry

Re: Imitation: The Most Sincerest Form Of Flattery
 

To sum it all up.

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Hey if anybody needs me ill be hiding out in the back of the lanes LOL

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Mr. 7423, in my humble opinion they are late so that their teammate can analyze the runs of the other cars that have run in order to get closer to a dial-in, that and also to make the opponent wonder if they are going to show up disrupting concentration.

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That's good to know, since I've been trying to get up with you for over a year now.

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General Question

What would happen if everybody just stayed in their pit spot and waited.

I can understand wanting to be on your own schedule and running your program the way you want, but what would happen if nobody came up to the lanes when called??

You think the people who are running the race would have anything to say?

Checking the weather, working on your car, watching how fast so and so was, who broke out and by how much, these are things that the real good drivers understand and keep track of, that's one of the things that makes them great.

Is it a head game they are playing or just wanting to gain every advantage they can. I say both.

Nothing will change, its a small potatoes deal and NHRA has got bigger things on their plate. So live with it.....or just stay in your pit spot..

RJ