[Alan Roehrich]

There are already people pulling timing out. Plenty of them.

You're grasping at straws, and trying to get NHRA to check even more than they do now, which they're not willing to do, by trying to force a maximum weight. Again, they'll just kill ET another way, it will not keep anyone honest. The smartest racers, who are usually the fastest, and most often running heavy, are smart enough to do other things if you tell them they cannot run heavy. Further, technically, that extra ballast is already illegal. Look how much removable ballast you are allowed. The rest is supposed to be permanent. Think about it. If they don't look for something now, what makes you think they'll start?

So, if you take the percentage of the hit up, historically, what would have happened? Recently, for example, Henson's hit would have been far worse on the rest of those Hemi cars. Henson is on the sidelines, at least for a while, and the rest of them are still suffering. Further, it was a silly mistake, he didn't even have to run it out. So ignore that, and look to see how many times the rarer cars capable of going really fast have been hit at 1.4 under. Not many.

You ignore the fact that a higher HP car that will run further under the index will likely gain more in the last 1/8 than in the first 1/8.

We won't be out for 3 more weeks, at least, and I'm not likely to drive again for a while, we're down to one car, and I'm by far the worst driver. We would like to have made Gainesville, but it just was not meant to be. I'm looking at a couple of cars to build, but the current economic situation means that's a long term process, barring a big score at the lottery, and I don't play it.

You may not like my arguments, that is fine. You may think they are thin. That's fine, too. But I'm familiar enough with the laws of probability, and the law of unintended consequences, that I'm also well aware of the fact that the one time NHRA will give you what you think you want is usually the time that what you think you want is really the last thing you want. I'd much prefer to see them do nothing rather than see them do something to make things worse. Put very simply, be very careful what you wish for, you may get it. And you may find out too late it doesn't look so good after you get it.