Post-Run Etiquette

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I realize, that so far I am 1 of the slowest entries in the category, if not the absolute slowest. I have learned a very valuable lesson (back in the 90's), and again at my 4th event last year at Pomona that was very costly by accident running - 666 under off the trailer, shifting it at exactly the same shift points as I did just a week before at Vegas where I was running just .126 under. Everyone in my specific class is faster, weighs in lighter, and few are HP factored and hit at over 6 percent 6HP/99 Factory HP, so I'm not going to necessarily show my stuff, (good or bad), on the Q sheet until I have to, so reading the rule the way it is written and looking at my published Q results, I will probably more often than not run faster in E1, E2, maybe later if lucky, and that rule requires the stop at least w/ intent until waved off.

I know I am not totally alone in the prospect of faster than Q time shows runs. It is a budget Stocker, because I'm on a budget...lol. But, I will run it out when necessary. I am older, and I want it to last. Then the added, I have to leave first always, last class and all, if it is just a bracket race, it is in my best interest to be slow. Sry, that is just good strategy.

Limited events so far I know. Just 7 events this late life go around (5 Div/2Nat), and win or lose, all were E1 or E2 faster than each spot so far on the Q sheets, so I needed to get in line each time by the explicit direction of the rule.

I was trying to be courteous and sportsman like, but I earn those measly points so far paying,can't afford to lose the few I paid for or earned going a couple of rounds.

I cannot complain about 1 rule, and not follow another rule. Black writing on white pages, no gray areas. It is what I have always loved about the NHRA. Their published rules, even if I disagree, I know "usually" what to expect as long as I take the time to read and understand them.
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On a different note, rules of any organization that has been around years, decades, etc., are piecemeal bult of time, be it drag racing, a Constitution or
By-Laws, and not always is everything out there cut and dried, sometimes a rule change is instituted (or advanced technology applied), and it isn't nreflected in another place it should have also been applied, and can create a conflict with an existing rule until (sometimes accidentally), discovered
brought to someone's attention and subsequently corrected.

Not saying this 1 needs correction, just being informative as we all have our own way, and ideas about dealing with it. You do you, I'll do me. Sry if I get in your way, but it will give more time to tell you congratulations for a great race.