Strange happenings in Stock race 1 in Tx.

[btrc]

I was wondering what happened as some the runs I looked at in round 1 seemed to have the losers in round 2. They need to have some system to let the winners know they won other than by cell phone. I would never think to carry my phone and if I did it would probably die about when I needed it.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Can't give you Like here, Mr 1.
I don't like any of this non- paper time slip crap, but geez...

You can buy a NEW Samsung A 11 for less than 200 bucks, with a year warrantee..It'll
do anything you need to do here.. Maybe 50 bucks a month for basic internet..Verizon will give veterans 10% off of that.
You guys spend a grand to go to a points meet, so don't tell me you can't afford this. ;-)

Uh, so we are supposed to carry the NEW Samsung in the car and dial the www between the end of the track BUT before the scales to see who won ???....AGAIN I say to NHRA, please stop the MADNESS and give us OUR friggin time slips....

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Uh, so we are supposed to carry the NEW Samsung in the car and dial the www between the end of the track BUT before the scales to see who won ???....AGAIN I say to NHRA, please stop the MADNESS and give us OUR friggin time slips....

I don't like it either, but seems like an I-phone is just another requirement this year. Just like 15-20 dollar gas, two year belts, etc.

Seems to me, without a red light in the other lane and early win light, when you can win or lose my thousandths, why not just stop at scales until Jr. downloads the time slip for you ?

[63corvette]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Uh, so we are supposed to carry the NEW Samsung in the car and dial the www between the end of the track BUT before the scales to see who won ???....AGAIN I say to NHRA, please stop the MADNESS and give us OUR friggin time slips....

I never carry a phone in the race car or even in my pocket on race day.
I concentrate on racing and do not want calls or texts when I am racing.
I just do not need the distraction.
Maybe just me.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

[Adger Smith]

In the old days before all the electronic gadgets and win signs and lights at the finish line we just went to fuel check and the scales. The guy there waved you on or put you on the scales. Why does it matter on a dial in race, anyway?? Only time it really matters is on a heads up.
Like Ed wright said.. Just stop at the scales...You would think that when the place starts looking like a parking lot at fuel check and the scales someone will figure out a workable solution.
Does any one remember the tracks that you had to go to the tower and get your time card out of a box at the bottom of the chute/tube to tell your ET and win/loss was marked on it?

[340Cuda]

They only paperless et slip system I have used is the one at Tulsa and think it is great. I have no problem with it.

However in my opinion for this type of system to work there has to be a way for a driver to know easily if they won or not.

I think it is travesty that at least two drivers lost because they did not know they had won on the track.

[oldskool]

"...Does any one remember the tracks that you had to go to the tower and get your time card out of a box at the bottom of the chute/tube to tell your ET and win/loss was marked on it? "

Yeah, it was that way when I started, in '73.

The tube was made of PVC pipe. And if someone was not there to catch the slips when they dropped, you'd have to dig thru a pile of slips, to find yours.

Here's a couple of pics from '73, at our local track. I didn't even remember having this 1st pic. It shows me in the pits, just coming back from teching in. I pulled it to the track with a tow bar, & hadn't changed tires yet.

The 2nd pic is the one I'd hoped would show the time slip tube/pipe. The sign in the background was on the side of our little tower, & the time-slip tube was on the corner. But, it's just out of the pic. Anyhow, this brings back lots of pleasant memories.

[Jeff Stout]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

In the old days before all the electronic gadgets and win signs and lights at the finish line we just went to fuel check and the scales. The guy there waved you on or put you on the scales. Why does it matter on a dial in race, anyway?? Only time it really matters is on a heads up.
Like Ed wright said.. Just stop at the scales...You would think that when the place starts looking like a parking lot at fuel check and the scales someone will figure out a workable solution.
Does any one remember the tracks that you had to go to the tower and get your time card out of a box at the bottom of the chute/tube to tell your ET and win/loss was marked on it?

Even into early 1980s Byron had a rain gutter for time slips to slide down and then pin up slips on bulletin board

[Roy Kinslow]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

In the old days before all the electronic gadgets and win signs and lights at the finish line we just went to fuel check and the scales. The guy there waved you on or put you on the scales. Why does it matter on a dial in race, anyway?? Only time it really matters is on a heads up.
Like Ed wright said.. Just stop at the scales...You would think that when the place starts looking like a parking lot at fuel check and the scales someone will figure out a workable solution.
Does any one remember the tracks that you had to go to the tower and get your time card out of a box at the bottom of the chute/tube to tell your ET and win/loss was marked on it?

I remember this very well at Ardmore Okla. in the early eighties. They gave you et , no reaction time . The mph was in milliseconds for the at that time 132 ft speed trap, you had to look at a chrondek chart on the wall to convert to mph. I remember by the end of the day it was sometimes hard to find our slip because there were so many in the box, seems alot of people didnt bother to go get them. There was one guy with a vega deep staging, I had no understanding why, but he won alot. Seems like a long time ago. My current super stock would've been a brand new car then.

[1matcoman]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

Does any one remember the tracks that you had to go to the tower and get your time card out of a box at the bottom of the chute/tube to tell your ET and win/loss was marked on it?

Oh yeah, yes indeed. I remember the guy that used to go to the old Houston track (and Porter) with me. He was notorious for running to the tower to get my time slip and then getting distracted on his way back! Here I sit on the fender of the old open trailer in the boiling Texas heat wondering what the car had just run.
Ah..... the good 'ol days.