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Originally Posted by SStockDart
I have been outspoken about this subect and we have had a ga-zillion comments about it. I am not racing the Winternationals this year and I am listening and watching on the internet.
The race is on hold for a Top Fuel oil down. Been down for a half an hour now, enough time to run the next complete round of Super Stock. Earlier was a similar Funny Car oil down. Yesterday evening, an Alcohol Funny car oiled over half the track. I listened to the first round of Stock and Super Stock, and recall one incident of water on the starting line, that took a minute to clean up, with about 140 cars going down the track. I may have missed some, but it certainly was not like the fuel cars where you: Make a run, clean the track, etc.
The probablilty of a Fuel Car oiling the track is (on a scale of 1 - 10) is probably around 5. The likelihood of a Stock or SuperStock car is, in my estimation, significantly less than 1. I would like NHRA to calculate the "down time" due to oil downs, on a "percapita" calculation, address the oil down problem accordingly.
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this was a topic of discusion at my local machine shop yesterday ,,yes it sucks in the delay but each team is getting fined per oil down (one frebee per year) but to a sportsman racer who has a limted budget and has some bad luck with fluids on the track twice in a season this can put a deciding factor in place (do i as racer continue to race the season or say i am done)all off us make sure our cars are reliable to get down the track with out any fluids coming out ,this not only at a national but divisional as well ,,we all hate when there is a oil down and waiting but it happens ,,,fines maybe but have the person who oiled down perform comunity service on the track ,,it might make for faster clean up with out the hit to the wallet ,,,,,thoughts