Just when I thought I have seen it all, part two.....

[Nitro Joe Jackson]

I just checked my edata that i get for stats and the car in question was in SS/FA in round one. Everything looks fine to me. BTW, RD 2 ladder was made off of Rd 1 winners anyhow so..............

[Toby Lang]

Thanks, Joe.

The funny thing about me changing classes that year (funny now anyway!) was when we went up to the lanes for random pairing. Amy Faulk was in the lane next to me 3 or 4 cars ahead and I thought 'Oh ****, I change classes and I'm gonna get a heads-up first round!' This was before they made the rule that there would be no heads-up races during random pairing. I counted out the cars 2 or 3 times and I ended up missing her by one pair I think. lol

[partsbob67]

Any truth to the rumor that there was no tech in vegas? Fill out your tech card and turn it in at the credentials window.

[Mike Gray]

Originally Posted by partsbob67

Any truth to the rumor that there was no tech in vegas? Fill out your tech card and turn it in at the credentials window.

Been there done that, the tech lanes were crowded and running slow. Danny G walked up to my car took my tech card and signed it without looking at anything.
(probably because I was just a super street car)

[MR DERBY CITY]

Oh, I forgot to tell you Super Slueth racers that the competitor admitted in the staging lanes to changing classes after FIRST round and with the blessing of the D7 DD.....

[Lew Silverman]

I call "shenanigans"!

If what you say is true, (and we have no reason to doubt you) you must file a formal complaint with the NHRA Competition Committee and let them decide who is responsible for this possible breech of the rules and who should be punished for this infraction. This needs to be investigated and a solution found ASAP.

This sort of conduct cannot be tolerated, wherever it occurs!

[Toby Lang]

Originally Posted by Lew Silverman

I call "shenanigans"!

If what you say is true, (and we have no reason to doubt you) you must file a formal complaint with the NHRA Competition Committee and let them decide who is responsible for this possible breech of the rules and who should be punished for this infraction. This needs to be investigated and a solution found ASAP.

This sort of conduct cannot be tolerated, wherever it occurs!

You are right, Lew. If Mike really did this he deserves to be fired or at the very least suspended without pay for 6 months to a year, but anybody with a brain knows this didn't really happen.

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Oh, I forgot to tell you Super Slueth racers that the competitor admitted in the staging lanes to changing classes after FIRST round and with the blessing of the D7 DD.....

Oh sure, you just happened to remember this very important piece of information. Yeah, right. LOL Who told you this, your source? I heard through the grapevine who your source is. His first name starts with Bobby and his last name starts with D.

Let's say it's true that he did tech into G and ran first round in G. The second round ladder is generated off of how far under the cars run in the first round. If he was in G he would have qualified a tenth faster which would have made him #20 instead of #21. He would have had to run Bob Fordyce and he wouldn't have a heads-up until the semis. But I guess that wasn't good enough for him so he went to Mike and asked him to change his class from G to F and Mike said "Sure, no problem, just give me a minute and I'll fix you right up." Then he went around telling people what happened. LOL

But since he really teched into F, he doesn't have to worry about any heads-up races. So he probably goes to Mike and tells him he's really in F and to check his tech card. Mike does and has the ladder changed. Simple as that.

You guys really think Mike would allow somebody to change classes after they ran first round? And the guy that got his class changed would go around telling people what happened? LOL