[Lew Silverman]

The STANDARD established by NHRA is ZERO alcohol, verified by random testing. If you choose to drink on a race weekend, and a great many of us do, you run the risk of not meeting the standard! I am not a Doctor or a trained test administrator, but I DO know what ZERO means. If I don't drink, I don't have to guess how long the alcohol will take to dissipate in my system. So why chance it? I'm also not a lawyer, but on this one particular weekend, alcohol was a problem for HIM. I saw the interview that Mr. Johnson gave on ESPN yesterday, and I can only imagine how badly he feels, because his tears looked real. We'll have to wait and see if anything positive comes from this incident. Maybe someone else will just "say No!" when tempted to drink (or drug) during a race weekend, knowing that NHRA is willing and able to enforce its standards.

Lew