Index right but dial in wrong in class?

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Toby Lang

You are allowed to change your dial-in on a rerun.

Another rule people might not know is you are not allowed to work on your car when you've been backed off the line for whatever reason.


-Toby

the last rerun i had toby they would not let us change our dial and kept our time slips but @ gainesville pts race ed richardson refused to let his competitor change his dial he lost because no one explained it to him until it was to late, jim collins our tech director said it has been in the rule book for 19 years? Learn something everyday and mr collins is as fair as they come.

[Toby Lang]

Well, maybe at a local bracket race, but at an NHRA national or divisional you can. At least that's how I've seen it done.

It only makes sense because with most reruns you are hot lapped and keeping the same dial-in is a bit unrealistic.


-Toby

[Billy Nees]

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[Toby Lang]

Originally Posted by Mickey Whaley

the last rerun i had toby they would not let us change our dial and kept our time slips but @ gainesville pts race ed richardson refused to let his competitor change his dial he lost because no one explained it to him until it was to late, jim collins our tech director said it has been in the rule book for 19 years? Learn something everyday and mr collins is as fair as they come.

So was Ed's opponent allowed to change his dial or not?


-Toby

[Toby Lang]

From the NHRA rulebook:

DIALING UNDER THE INDEX
Contestants in Super Stock and Stock have the option of dialing
under their class’ assigned index. It is the responsibility of each
contestant to place the selected time on the windshield and towerside
window prior to each round of competition. Dial-unders may be
changed between rounds, including a rerun situation. All
contestants not choosing to dial under will automatically be
handicapped on the basis of their assigned class index. In cases
where two cars of the same class are paired, the race is conducted
on a heads-up basis, regardless of any dialing-under
considerations, and breakout rulings do not apply.

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Toby Lang

So was Ed's opponent allowed to change his dial or not?


-Toby

yes toby, that was the whole stink of it the clocks malfunctioned and his guy got a time slip with his run on it and ed got a blank slip so the guy changed his dial 8 hundreths ed was so mad he wouldnt run basically he got a time run and ed didnt so just saying and starting first round with a time shot is big and your slip is blank? And it was a rerun.

[Toby Lang]

I think this sentence in my above quote of the rulebook is why Art got a rerun:

"All contestants not choosing to dial under will automatically be
handicapped on the basis of their assigned class index."


-Toby

[Toby Lang]

Originally Posted by Mickey Whaley

yes toby, that was the whole stink of it the clocks malfunctioned and his guy got a time slip with his run on it and ed got a blank slip so the guy changed his dial 8 hundreths ed was so mad he wouldnt run basically he got a time run and ed didnt so just saying and starting first round with a time shot is big and your slip is blank? And it was a rerun.

Yeah, that's a bad deal, but if you saw your competitor dial up .08, wouldn't you dial up also?


-Toby

[Rich Biebel]

I see it does say a dial in can be changed on a rerun....So I stand corrected.

Local bracket races are NOT allowed to change a dial-in....I've been in a race or two like that and was told I could not change my dial-in.....I assumed it was a rule applied across the board in all dail-in racing....

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Toby Lang

Yeah, that's a bad deal, but if you saw your competitor dial up .08, wouldn't you dial up also?


-Toby

he had to change conv free time run with new stuff and he didnt get one i would be mad to if anything no time slip should have been given