Sorenson's 1.408 under decision

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Tom Meyer

In talking to my div tech director this how it is no nhra person saw what happened so no hp hit. However new langauge is beinng writen as far as 1.40 under. Kind of closeing the barn door after the horse got out. So untill we see somthing in writing the matter is dead. I think his veiw was it has to be seen by someone from nhra and it is ilegal to take out wieght of taint a fuel sample to void a run. I also found out the hard way that only Nal event runs count for ahfs averages. On fri before teching in I asked the div tech director and div director if div runs counted on the average and was told yes then after my fist run on sat I was told that they had called Cal and now it was nal only so much for that.So now with so few cars in the average there maybe a lot of hp given out unless you had your car painted in Cal. Tom Meyer

So, we can run as fast as we want at div races, as long as we stay off that 1.40 trigger, without hurting our AHFS averages?

[larry dowty]

WHAT happened to kevin cours post on this matter?

[Tom Meyer]

Thats my take on it Ed. It is now a three person board Bruce Danny and I can not rember the other so like I said maybe you need your car painted in Cal. Tom

[Jack Matyas]

Tom -- I don't agree with your anology as I'm probably one of the few on this board who has had his car painted in California and it hasn't helped me over the years one bit -- not one little bit .. ever......

PS-- I really hate to admit it but I got some very nice paint work .

[Billy Nees]

Jack, not one itsy, bitsy bit ever? Ever?

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Jack, not one itsy, bitsy bit ever? Ever?

Billy -- Nothing -- Nada -- Zip -- Zero..........if anything it was harder on me ......................If you remember I've already taken the 1.40 hit on Monday ........maybe I should have tried this weight / water deal instead .

[Jack Matyas]

Ed -- Thanks for the offer but we have plenty of good painters here in the East . At the time my GTO served as a "West Coast" car and burned up pretty good at Pomona.........when "they" were done you couldn't tell it was ever on fire and still retained all of the original sheetmetal ...............

[Ed Wright]

I have a dumb question. If somebody (like Sorenson) just wanted to know how quick his car was capable of running that day, why not just pull 25 or 30 lbs BEFORE the pass? No funny stuff on the return road, etc.

[bill dedman]

So, let me get this straight:

Henson runs 1.40 under, avoids the scales, so nobody knows whether he was light, but gets HP ANYWAY, on Monday.

Sorensen runs 1.40 under, but comes up "light", and DOES NOT get HP.

Would somebody explain to me in what ways these two scenarios differ?

In neither case could it be verified that these two cars were of legal weight.

One gets HP, and the other doesn't.

New language isn't going to fix this....

[hadtobethere]

....this is another good reason to lower the S/SS index -.50 .....then throw away the AFHS and get back to real racing...the way it should be.