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magnumv8 · 09-07-2009, 04:35 PM

Hey Joe....

All states are pretty much the same as for the procedure....you are sent a letter telling you of your suspension and in the fine print they request you to "surrender" your license (mail it to the DMV)...if you don't you get lost in the shuffle and you are on your honor until you get caught or they do a back check and find out you didn't do it....you read it in the papers all over the country people getting involved in accidents that are driving under a suspended license...it is a good way to lose everything you may ever own ( I have a judgement against a suspended driver for hitting a vehicle I owned)....it comes out of your pocket since insurance will not cover you....can you imagine the liability NHRA would face if a driver at an event "accidently" hit a spectator and killed them in the pit area and they find out he was under a suspended license?....especially when the rulebook is so specific about having a license to compete.....everyone knows "stuff" happens,but if you have rules you need to come up with a way to properly enforce them.....

Yes,the drug testing must be handled by an outside group in order for it to be done properly and technically without bias, since it must be done in a "controlled" procedure from sample to testing to avoid contamination or sample mix-ups...now this all changes once a positive test comes back, you will never be a random test again, you would have to supply a sample whenever they decided to ask you for one(rulebook specific again) .....

D.L.Rambo

09-07-2009, 04:35 PM	#2
magnumv8 Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Coraopolis, Pa. Posts: 172 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Drug Testing perNHRA Hey Joe.... All states are pretty much the same as for the procedure....you are sent a letter telling you of your suspension and in the fine print they request you to "surrender" your license (mail it to the DMV)...if you don't you get lost in the shuffle and you are on your honor until you get caught or they do a back check and find out you didn't do it....you read it in the papers all over the country people getting involved in accidents that are driving under a suspended license...it is a good way to lose everything you may ever own ( I have a judgement against a suspended driver for hitting a vehicle I owned)....it comes out of your pocket since insurance will not cover you....can you imagine the liability NHRA would face if a driver at an event "accidently" hit a spectator and killed them in the pit area and they find out he was under a suspended license?....especially when the rulebook is so specific about having a license to compete.....everyone knows "stuff" happens,but if you have rules you need to come up with a way to properly enforce them..... Yes,the drug testing must be handled by an outside group in order for it to be done properly and technically without bias, since it must be done in a "controlled" procedure from sample to testing to avoid contamination or sample mix-ups...now this all changes once a positive test comes back, you will never be a random test again, you would have to supply a sample whenever they decided to ask you for one(rulebook specific again) ..... D.L.Rambo