Is Bob Lang

[John DiBartolomeo]

I think I have to agree with Jack... Bob Lang would have to be crazy (no comments here) to come on here and answer questions. But I can guarantee he's listening. The week before the Maple Grove divisional, members of the super category SRAC had a meeting to discuss some issues, most notably track prep. Bob Lang was invited and gladly attended to rationally (key word here) discuss our concerns. He was more than willing to listen and accept some of our "suggestions." At the 'Grove, if anyone was paying attention, you would have noticed a marked difference in how the track was prepped, both before racing began and in between sessions. With Lang in charge of track prep at the nat events, that same scenario took place at E-Town. I'm not going to defend the poor starting line there, nor the crazy schedule but expecting to run two classes back to back with those cars shocking the tires in roughly the same place on a track that had temps well above 100-degrees, was probably a mistake. Something I think they (whoever "they" is at NHRA) would agree.

VP vs. VHT (which is really now PJ1)? Nat events use PJ1 (VHT). I don't know what they use on a weekly basis at E-Town or at a lot of other tracks, but the bottom line that both work well in most cases. My thoughts have always been that we spray too much and don't drag enough. Cars have to stick to rubber and the spray is only there to facilitate the rubber sticking to it.

Here's my point: If you think they're not listening, you're drastically mistaken. In regards to the track prep, trying to prep the track for different types of cars can drive anyone to drink. Trying to find that happy medium would probably have most of us popping open the Jim Beam a lot quicker than NHRA would.