DQ at Reading

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Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Joe is always in the national points chase, will he have to claim this race as one of the three national events?

I will try to educate everyone so this can all be put to rest without any additional posting.

Per all of the "Statements of Action against participants" posts on NHRA racer, when there is a disqualification it states "This violation resulted in disqualification from the event, zero points awarded, and the event counting against his total number of eligible scored events for the season."

Now, the question then becomes what is a SCORED event. There are different definitions for SCORED or CLAIMED event. You can find the definitions here: https://www.nhraracer.com/Files/Comp...ker_Policy.pdf

A scored event for national event purposes is the 6 events you attend in chronological order. A claimed event is the best 3 events of the 6 scored events.

There is a question whether this event would even be ELIGIBLE since it is after the first 6. For arguments sake, lets say NHRA makes it to where it has to be one of the eligible scored events. Therefore, in Joe's instance, this 0 would replace the last of his scored events as points are awarded in chronological order. The 0 would replace the 51 points he earned at Adel. However, even the Adel 51 was not a claimed event.

Meaning, regardless of the decision on whether its eligible or not...Joe's points will not be affected and there is a lot of discourse here that is going to amount to literally nothing.

Time to move on to another topic.