"Live From" Bristol - Thunder Valley Nationals

[Frank Castros]

Left Before 3 Ambers. It was a tree malfunction and they re-ran those pairs effected.

[Brett C]

Happened to my brother in St. Louis E1 stock and they didn’t give him a re-run!
Glad they are making it right!

[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

Left Before 3 Ambers. It was a tree malfunction and they re-ran those pairs effected.

Did they rerun Autumn Greene and Steven Dziorny as well? I heard they were re-running the other 2, but never heard whether they were rerunning that pair or not. It looked to me like Autumn had the same issue happen as the others, but hers happened at 2nd amber instead of 1st amber.

I had this exact issue happen to me in Bristol in 2006 at the Jr Dragster ECF and they told me I was out of luck. It was even left lane...which appears to be the lane with issues today.

[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Ellis V Buth

Did they rerun Autumn Greene and Steven Dziorny as well? I heard they were re-running the other 2, but never heard whether they were rerunning that pair or not. It looked to me like Autumn had the same issue happen as the others, but hers happened at 2nd amber instead of 1st amber.

I had this exact issue happen to me in Bristol in 2006 at the Jr Dragster ECF and they told me I was out of luck. It was even left lane...which appears to be the lane with issues today.

I do see where they reran Autumn and Steven. Good job to NHRA for making this right. Looks like 2 of the 3 pairs ended up with the same winner...but at least both parties got a fair chance the 2nd time around.

[jmcarter]

Would imagine Todd will provide some insight if Autumn was treated unfairly. I pitted next to them at Gainesville last year, they are good people so sure hope it was handled appropriately.

[Ken Miele]

Hey guys, I got some Stock photos. I will have more later, both Stock and Super Stock. We are done for the day... all the sportsman got there 2 elimination rounds in, tomorrows weather will dictate the program. One thing for sure it will be a lot cooler tomorrow, dialing your car will be a tough one.

Be back later folks...

[Ken Miele]

More photos from Stock...

[Ken Miele]

A few more, Super Stock will be up in a few minutes.

[Nmbr1GMfan]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Would imagine Todd will provide some insight if Autumn was treated unfairly. I pitted next to them at Gainesville last year, they are good people so sure hope it was handled appropriately.

We did in fact get a re-run. Steven was red and it looked like when his red turned on our pre stage and stage bulbs went out kicking on our red. Started would not even look at me when I was talking to him, there was another guy standing next to him and he would let me start taking then point to another guy standing off to the side, he didn't care either. I went to the other guy and he immediately said "car backed out of the beams" I said no it did not, never moved. After a back and fourth about 30 seconds long... I gave up. Headed back to the water box I ran into Jimmy Hidalgo waving his finger at me saying "No, go back it never moved". So back I went to further my case, still with the "the car backed out" story, he finally said "you got video?" and I said absolutely so we went back and looked at the video and no it didn't move so he said "OK, talk to Cody". Cody looked at the video and then had a discussion with whoever was in the tower with him and said we would re-run. Now, let me be perfectly clear, we did get a re-run, but not one of these people were pleasant and the whole experience was belittling and ridiculous. 1) starting line guy was just lying to get me to leave. 2) tree had just malfunctioned probably 6 pair before us. 3) Ticket said LB3A when clearly the red came on AFTER the tree was on 2nd yellow. We won the round anyhow, our guy was .018 red and he was already gone when the tree lit red. Nothing against Steven he's a good guy and a friend.

[jmcarter]

Shame you had to go to those lengths in the interest of fairness. Treating sportsman racers as a nuisance and looking for excuses to get us gone rather than seeking fair races for all is what makes racing with them unpleasant at times. Cody has always been straight up with me but some of the starter attitudes are ridiculous sometimes.