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My thoughts on this is I've never done it before in eliminations but NHRA claims it was a safety issue but I can think of at least two times this year they sent us down a track under unsafe conditions and one time it was sprinkling rain so I can't imagine this is what they consider a safety issue.
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Sounds like the nhra official had his binders on to not know it was raining
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Coot, I was able to have a great convo with one of the sportsman starters at an airport and I asked him about this topic. He said the big issue if the starter has to tell drivers to shiut their cars off or back up, he doesn't want their to be any obstructions. |
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and I was told by an NHRA "higher-up" that it is an "insurance company" decision.
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At the end of the day.. I am pretty sure they cannot tell you that you cant use your hand.. Which is what people did back in the day before people started taping up there windshields and having drop down blinders.. I remember watching Bertozzi do this at bristol in the 90s and is where I learned to do it..
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Did I see a Pro Stocker using some form of blinder ??
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On a pro tree, what the heck would they being trying to block out? Seems to me it would be useless.
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They block out their side vision,
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