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Both of my G-Force helmets have those stripes across the top of the shield. I also use those helmets to ride my Harleys. I can simply tilt my head forward if the sun happens to be too bright. Now that's illegal? Seriously? Just for fun, someone should threaten to sue NHRA for forcing them to remove a factory installed safety device from a required piece of safety equipment. Stupidity such as that is EXACTLY what I knew would come from this rule. It's pretty funny, actually, that this rule is a "safety" issue, but "ONLY" in 1-2 classes. ROFLMFAO. And then, when people start trying to get others a DQ, starting arguments and fights, it'll be worse than Saturday night at the podunk race track. How sad that a supposedly relatively adult sport among friends is degenerating to such a childish level.
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It's so simple Alan. They already have a size requirement. Obviously NHRA thought it was an ok size when they wrote it up. Change the language to say it must be on a swivel and swivel out of the way when not "in use". Usage is for on track usage only and can't be deployed until you pre stage, and both the left and right units must be swiveled away when not actually on the track.That's how I did it for YEARS. How is that not safe ?
Good Lord, why so complicated...
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Kenny if the dividers are too short racers will be leaving off of the slower cars tree.
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They’ve obviously never tried to stage a car at Bowling Green in the late afternoon or Pacific Raceway or Gainesville for first round Friday morning.
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Exactly! When I'm faster, especially just a tick faster, I still have trouble occasionally with a bulb or less stagger. As long as I've been doing it it still throws me off occasionally. Hence.... put an effective splitter of don't bother.
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I reached out to Pat Cvengros, Lonnie Grim and Ned Walliser to voice my support for allowing the freedom to choose to use a blinder or not. A portion of the response that I received back from Pat C is highlighted below.
We have been told that this rule is solely based on safety as stated in the clarification posted on www.nhraracer.com Jan 20. IF that was the case, why is there a need to mention the fact that Stock/SS are full tree categories and bringing a level playing field to the starting line?? Maybe all 7 of the current SRAC reps can chime in and give us the details of the conversations that they’ve had with NHRA authorities over the past year or 2 on the subject. Quote:
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....Which is exactly what happened to deep staging ;-)
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