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I think this is covered in chapter two of the Jerry Eckman rule book. Look what cheating did for him. My only question, " How good can you feel about winning when you know you are cheating?". NHRA is not helping enforce the rules with a mickey mouse fine. Cheating racers should be barred from racing for a year. If they want the automobile manufacturers involved in these classes, then they are going to have to do a much better job of enforcing and policing the rules. If not, these classes are dead on arrival. Maybe just pump the motors for cubic inches and then let the racers do whatever they want with blowers and pulleys etc. Let's make it a real free for all. Maybe call it Factory Bar Fight.
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Soo...
Was this the same infraction for all of the above mentioned cars? Seems a lot of people making same "mistake"... Any common denominators? Asking for a friend... ![]() |
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Alex Laughlin has a post regarding that from Geoff Turk on Facebook. I tried to post it here, it's too long. This thread answers the "why is he posting this" thoughts.
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Why was one participant disqualified, with loss of all points and a fine, while the others were allowed to make corrections and continue racing, were fined, but only lost 100 points?
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From what the Turks said the pulley had the right number of teeth but was a larger diameter. A pulley that they had fabricated. They said it also had a cover on it to make it harder to see. No one has been able to tell me if the infraction was caught before racing, during or after. It would seem like NHRA needs to modify the rules to set a diameter as well as a tooth count. Bill |
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The N.H.R.A. Technical Dept. has completely lost any integrity it may have had before this debacle and at the biggest event of the year no less.
Lonnie Grim must restore confidence in the process of enforcing the Rule book. It won't be easy. |
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This right here is the reason you don't cheat. You get caught, your past and present will be tarnished, forever.
The Stanfields had everything to lose and very little to gain. Greg's world championships and everything that family has done up until this point is questionable. Its not a question of if they cheated, merely a how. And I don't want to hear NHRA's fault as the rule didnt state diameter, just number of teeth. Its not like they didn't know what they were doing was illegal. Blatant cheating Rest In Peace Howard Stanfield, I'm sure after this your lying face down. Tarnishing the Stanfield name for history. Very sad |
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I was wondering the same thing. Could it be because he had a different engine builder than the other cheaters? |
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