Break car & allowed replacement @ Columbus??

[SSTRACER323]

Well that tells the story then.... that is cool that Jay did that.

In my situation it was later on Saturday, so i was S.O.L.

[Chris Williams]

I'm just sitting here wondering what it's like to have two cars in the garage ready to race... And what it's like to live close enough to a track to be able to load up a car, go home, unload it, load up the other, drive back, and unload in time to be in tech within 79 minutes. The track we raced at last weekend was an 8.5 hour drive -- each way.

[Bob Verwold]

He didn't take the broke car home, he just went home and loaded the other car on another trailer and pulled it to the track with another truck........And that's the rest of the story!!!

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Bob Verwold

He didn't take the broke car home, he just went home and loaded the other car on another trailer and pulled it to the track with another truck........And that's the rest of the story!!!

Almost as impressive. Has two cars capable of running in the same class, both sitting there ready to go. Has another spare truck and trailer sitting there too. And lives close enough to be there and back in just over an hour. I have none of those three conditions.

[Bill Webb]

The S/C driver was Chris Bear and he always has two diggers in his trailer. A friend of his was going to race the other car in the bracket race. Chris had a crack in a cylinder head below the Jesel rocker bar. He went and asked Jay if he could switch cars and Jay said as long as it wasnt entered or been teched it was fine.

I think both drivers handled the situation well within the rules.

[Michael Pliska]

You aren't required to make a time run in the .90 classes, are you? While it was years ago, I have run both a divisional (and ended up in the semis) and a national without time runs (in both cases I had broken the car bracket racing it the prior Wednesday, and had to scramble it back together). The divisional involved two trailer flats too on the way! Nobody even questioned it, although it was traffic jam of people trying to line up next to me first round!

[Chris Williams]

You're right, time runs are a courtesy for SC/SG racers.

Originally Posted by NHRA Rulebook

All qualifiers in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Comp, Super Stock, and Stock must have a valid elapsed time recorded to be placed into eliminator competition. If conditions should curtail scheduled qualifying attempts in Super Stock or Stock categories, the event director has the option of placing non-qualified entrants into the field.

Note the conspicuously absent Super categories. There's no ladder until after round one, so it doesn't matter. Under "Ladders":

Originally Posted by NHRA Rulebook

Super Comp, Super Gas, and Super Street use random pairings for the initial round of competition, with those first-round winning times determining subsequent round pairings.

You could show up for round one and go. Tough to be competitive, but it's been done.

[Michael Pliska]

Originally Posted by Chris Williams

You're right, time runs are a courtesy for SC/SG racers.



Note the conspicuously absent Super categories. There's no ladder until after round one, so it doesn't matter. Under "Ladders":



You could show up for round one and go. Tough to be competitive, but it's been done.

Yup, I was worried there would be fender-benders in the scramble to get at the duck for 1st round. I remember thinking at the time, I didn't care if I won any more rounds, I just wanted to send the "winning" duck hunter home! I managed to do that both times.

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Michael Pliska

Yup, I was worried there would be fender-benders in the scramble to get at the duck for 1st round. I remember thinking at the time, I didn't care if I won any more rounds, I just wanted to send the "winning" duck hunter home! I managed to do that both times.

I love being thought to be the duck. When we first started running, it was a stitch to have people hunt us out, with my daughter (who is 24 but looks 16) driving, and then send them home. After a short while, they learned and went duck hunting elsewhere.