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Originally Posted by Bruce Noland
Jeff,
I'm using the quotes the same as you are. You have mentioned negotiating many times now and I'm trying my best to point out to you that Graham Light and his staff said they accepted the numbers that Ford gave them. There were no negotiations according to them. Sure some folks had to communicate at some level to get the cars in the sheets but the power figures were produced by Ford. nhra didn't get suckered. They claim in their letters they knew exactly what was going on from the beginning. Most of us don't see a conspiracy - we see collusion.
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I guess I spoke to the "other" staff @ NHRA Tech this week and was told the HP numbers went higher after NHRA initially said "no". I don't know about you, but in my world, that's negotiating.
So what is your point?
This "collusion" is it there to make the sport, what, better...worse? Did Grahm Light get together with Ford & Chrysler and determine the best way to get rid of S/SS was to allow these ringers in and everybody would be forced to either buy one or get out of the sport? What was the collusion all about?
IHRA already tried to make it an all Pro event and that didn't work. I don't think that has been lost on Grahm Light or anybody else at NHRA.
As you try to dig up the past on an NHRA vote in the '70's or '80's trying to show collusion or conspiracy you have the rare opportunity to prove the same with the DP/CJ conspiracy or collusion (which I would be hard pressed to define the difference but apparently to you there is so have at it).
I'm desperately waiting for my car to get done. It's been way to long out of commission and things have changed in my life and in NHRA. But that doesn't make me want to run scared or sell off the car. I will build the best possible car and the chips fall where the chips fall. I might loose to a CJ/DP in a heads-up but the odds are, and I predict shall remain, that the likely hood of running into one in eliminations will be next to nill.
In my conversation with NHRA, I predicted the fastest ever correction curve on the AHFS. These DP/CJ cars have more ego behind them than NHRA has seen in decades. I believe the LT-1/LS-1 racers kept each other at bay. Not so with this group. Sure wish I would have saved my prediction for the CJ Stock class cars. It's somewhere on ClassRacer but I believe I called for somewhere around 9.60's @ 138 before they even hit the track. Point is, none of this comes as a surprise to me and I'm still putting money into my car.