plumbing hand brake on a dragster

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Charlie Yannetti

But they also made a bunch of us S/G guys pop our chutes and repack them in front of them.. go figure.. good thing there wasn't somebody's crusty old underwear in there when I pulled it, huh...

They did this for all the "super" classes at Seattle last year. The reason stated was that we pull them so infrequently, they sometimes don't actually pop. Ours was fine, a friend behind me pulled the lever, and ... nothing ... it just sat there. He jiggled it, nothing. Gave it a good hit, and it popped. He was thanking the tech guys for making him do it.