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Well, I just had an interesting race with Calvert's CJ. They were getting ready to pull us out to run and I looked over to see what his dial-in was. They still only had the 10. on there. I knew he had run a 10.40 in the first round. When we got to the water box they had his dial as a 10.00 on the little dial-in readouts they have in front of the water box. I thought maybe they hopped it up with the laptop and were trying to screw with me.
We did our burn outs and next thing I know the starter is radioing to the tower to change his dial to a 10.41. The starter comes over to me and says they had to change his dial and I told him I know they had a 10 flat on it when we pulled out to go to the water box. He asked me if I wanted to contest it. I thought about it for a while. I know John and he's a real nice guy and has treated Jim and I real good over the years, but it's not my fault they wait until the last second to put their dial on. So I said I wanted to contest it. Then the starter said we would have to back out while he got a ruling. People have told me they saw them put the dial-in on in the water box. I mean what is there to rule on? We were about the 4th from last pair and they said we would be the last pair out. I wasn't even sure what the ruling was, but I thought it was pretty obvious. While we were waiting to go John was under the hood, taking the throttle stop off I imagine. Then when we were in the burn out box I saw his dial was 10.00 like it should have been in the first place. I figured they would pick up some, but I didn't think they would pick up that much, so I backed off on the tree. I had a .067 and he had a .008. I got there first by .004 but broke out .01. They ran a 10.05. FML -Toby |
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I watched it live.
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I cannot believe it. Right in the middle of the Stock Eliminator round. The live feed quits. That sucks.
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..............and back to a 10.44 in Round 3!
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Beside that - I would have not guessed he'd pick-up that much ( well maybe with his throttle stop adjusted ) and run that close to his new dial ............Guess we all learned a lesson from your run - never back off the tree .............
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The officials should not have asked you to contest the infraction - rules are rules for everyone - if your opponent broke those rules why make you decide ?
Exactly correct.....as Jack said. Once you pass a certain point you cannot change your dial-in......usually the head of the staging lanes.....definately no way you can change it once your at the burnout area..... and you also can't change your dial-in for a rerun if something causes that to occur... No need to wait for a ruling......just need to have some track officials that know the rules....... Anytime you take an opponent ligthly it can come back to bite you.....I've been bitten many times.....too many....
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Congratulations to Jody for the win in Stock.
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Way to go Jody!! Congratulations on your win!!
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Great Looking Run Jody! Congrats on another Vegas Win!
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Hi Toby,
First thing...... Thanks for posting the videos & pix it's almost as if we are there (not really). Second thing..... That 2nd round run of Calvert's in A/SA was 1.14 under the Altitude Corrected Index. Did they change the AFHS this year to count ALL runs Altitude & LODRS events????Should that run in A/SA set a trigger point for that combo??? At one point, I thought that I understood the AHFS, but now I think I don't???? Thanks again for the great race coverage, Bob
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