Where's Paul Harvey with "The rest of the story" ???

[Dave Goob Cook]

I'm with Michael on this one.....I race every round, no matter what

I'd cut my poor dear departed Mother's head off on the tree if I could, and dial dead on, regardless of points or anything else, hell, I'd do it on a time shot for nothing.

goob- no gimme rounds for anyone, for any reason.

goob2- and yes, if the 2nd place racer loses by one round or less, you better believe that racer got cheated.

[Sean Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

If the championship comes down to the difference of that one round, then the second place guy was cheated. One guy has to *earn* all of his round wins, and another has some given to him.

Is it okay because it was just one round, or would it be okay if we put together a team of ten cars and work to qualify so that we could always advance certain team members into the late rounds and buy a championship?

I'm stunned that there is so little moral integrity in our sport. Y'all are welcome to your opinions. I for one will always know that everything I've won I will have earned. I needed to win one round to win the Summit Super Series at Pageland Dragway this weekend. I lost a close race to a good competitor. I'm happier knowing that I did my best, instead of paying off my opponent to give me a redlight.

Post of the year.

Yeah it's DeFrank's team, yeah he can do what he wants, blah blah blah. I understand and agree with all that.

The point is, his decision, which was absolutely his to make, was a bad one as far as sportsmanship, representing drag racing well and just was not in the spirit of competition. Kind of chicken ****.

If Jimmy is so good, which i personaly do think he is, he can beat tony in a real race.

Jealous? of someone who didn't even really EARN their win? you must be high.

[Billy Pires]

you all have your panties in a bunch for something that wont even affect you. The DeFranks know what they're doing. It's a team effort.

LOL @ the yodeler who says Jimmy didnt earn his victory.

[Dave Goob Cook]

Originally Posted by Billy Pires

you all have your panties in a bunch for something that wont even affect you. The DeFranks know what they're doing. It's a team effort.

Excuse me, but when "super teams" come in and dominate competition without even putting on a show IT DOES AFFECT EVERYONE.

Are you hoping for NHRA Sportsman racing to go the way of NAPCAR?

Ask any single car owner in any motorsport how they feel about bogus "competition" amongst multi-car teams manipulating championship standings by setting up gimme points rounds......ask Lewis Hamilton how he feels about having to take the back seat to a less talented driver on the same team, extreme example, but F-1 is pretty extreme competition, or used to be.

When the integrity is gone, so is the Sportsman.

[fredjohnston]

Put your self in this situation. Your brother has an excellent chance of winning the championship and you wouldn't help him out? Come on get real, you know you would do the same thing. One of the posts mentions something about the fans in the stands...blah blah....I'm sure the 10 or so fans in the stands didn't really care. Good driving job and congrats to the DeFrank team for making it an all DeFrank final.

[Jack McCarthy]

hell guys have "bought" rounds for years...at least they raced to get to this opportunity

anyway..
if YOU were good enough and rich enough to have both in the finals you'd see it differntly...

congrats DEFRANKS...

jack mccarthy

[Michael Beard]

>> if YOU were good enough and rich enough to have both in the finals you'd see it differntly...

Is that directed to anyone in particular?

In any case, I thought talent was supposed to win races, not money.

[Jack McCarthy]

naw mike... just everyone in general... not many "teams" talented enough to drive themselves to the finals...and i think some of the whiners are jealous of the defranks...

simple opinion that others wouldnt see it so wrong if they had opportunity to do it ??

jack

[SSDiv6]

Since this post tends to infer that the DeFrank Team gets away with this...let's look at other plausible situations:

Let's take Jody and Toby Lang, or Mark Faul and his dad, or the Waldo family or the Biondo's...if they were in the same situation and a sibling had the chance to win a Division or National championship, would they do the same? The DeFranks and the others I have mentioned, in addition to being team mates...they are FAMILY!!!

[Michael Beard]

It's akin to using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs in other sports. Home run derby: Drugs or a corked bat? "Yer just jealous" and "You'd feel different if you used it, too" are not valid arguments, in my opinion.

For the record, both the DeFranks did a phenomal job the entire day. Should've been a helluva final round, too.

I suppose it bothers me that when you're "that good", that some feel the need to resort to something less than your God-given talent to get a W.