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Here is a copy of the letter sent to me after I e-mailed Peter Clifford about my concerns with a no pre race tech.
Denny, * My name is Glen Gray and I am the Vice President of Technical Operations. Peter Clifford has asked me to respond to your concerns about the elimination of pre-race technical inspections. There are many rumors about the new technical inspection program floating around and these rumors are causing some people to worry about inspections at NHRA National Events. I hope I can eliminate your concerns about this new program that will go into effect next year at the first Pomona event. * Some people are concerned that eliminating technical inspections the day before racing starts will mean that cars will not be inspected as well as they are today. This is definitely not the case, and in fact we hope to improve technical inspections with this new process. This process will help eliminate the possibility that a racer will swap out safety or performance related equipment after the pre-race inspection. The practice of switching safety and performance related equipment after pre-race inspections happens more frequently than you would expect. Unfortunately, the car that is pre-race inspected is not always a true representation of the car that the racers run down the track. This new process will allow the tech department to check safety equipment as well as other performance related items periodically throughout the weekend.* * You will see several of the tech department team in the staging lanes, at the scales, and at fuel check at various times during the weekend inspecting cars. When necessary we will follow up on something we have found by going to the pits to perform further inspections. As always, it is ultimately the racer’s responsibility to have the correct safety and performance related equipment. For racers who demonstrate over time that they are not capable of having the proper safety equipment, there will be penalties including, but not limited to: (disqualification from an event, suspension, fines, etc.). We will work with racers whenever possible, but when it is apparent that they can’t or are unwilling to follow rules we may have to levy penalties. * Besides improved technical inspection, the racer should also benefit in other ways. For instance, this program will allow racers that work full-time to take one less day off from work to participate in an event. Additionally, racers will benefit by waiting in fewer lines. * Because this process is so drastically different from how things were done in the past, I understand your and other racer’s concerns. The NHRA tech department plans to provide more educational information about this program to all racers via NHRARacer.com before the 2017 NHRA National Event season begins. Please feel free to email me if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks for your interest and participation in NHRA Drag Racing. * * * Glen Gray NHRA Vice President Technical Operations *
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Denny Steward GT/JA 246 |
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