No Blinders

[Alan Roehrich]

Oh brother. How did we know this was going to happen?



We're now going to have another "the fast guys have all the advantages" whine fest.


Fine. We don't need the blinders. It is just a stupid rule, that unnecessarily punishes good people who did nothing wrong, for no reason. But that's okay. I like leaving off the bottom bulb, and blocking the other two, but I don't have to. If they want to allow deep staging, that's fine, too.


I really couldn't care less whether you "go to bat" or not. I've never cared about deep staging, one way or another. My issue with blinders is that they were legal, and there's actually no valid reason to make them illegal. But hey, if the slow guys crying helped them make the decision, oh well. And if you're okay not standing up and saying the rule was wrong, because you want to "trade" deep staging and true start for standing up, that's cool, too.



Like I said to a friend the other night, regarding another bogus NHRA decision, and what was said about it, "tell me again why I'm looking at sacrificing my financial security to go back to Stock or Super Stock".

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Barry, If I might speak for Billy ( my brother from another mother)...
I think this is what he was alluding to:
About 20 years ago, when a few guys were deep staging and winning races, a few were trying to take them off their game, rather than minding their own business, and staging normally.
Supposedly NHRA took a vote, (I must have missed it) and the majority (most who didn't DS any way) voted to do away with the practice.
All the slower reacting cars and drivers wanted to do is leave on the third light flash...You know. kinda like the hard leaving, faster cars want to do with a blinder.
I seem to remember that the faster guys were no where to be found when sticking up for the little guys.
Some of them didn't even understand the concept, yet voted against it anyway.
What Billy and a few others (myself included) are saying is : Give us back deep staging and bring in Tru-Start, and we'll go to bat for you, this time.
So, far, I haven't seen one positive comment for our side, from the Give Us Back Our Blinders group.
You know, as long as I've been racing, it seems that the faster guys want to start out every game with two aces, dealt from the bottom of the deck ;-)

Thanks Mark.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Hey guys, how bout we all wait a few days till NHRA rescinds the blinder rule. With the first points meet February 3, it won’t be long. Then all you crybaby CHICKEN CHITS can now move your AGENDA to eliminating 2 steps in stockers.

Well, I assumed the meeting would be held before the D-2 points meet but my contact in California sez the meeting will be this coming week . Stay tuned ….