Originally Posted by bill dedman (Post 257980)

when i responded to this note, i was in the middle of something else, and said some things i shouldn't have said. I apologize for having said those things,

what i meant to say was this:

As regards your comment, "i insult and make fun of people who deserve it."

why do i deserve to be insulted and laughed at? For suggesting ways to make drag racing more fair for everybody? They say, "no good deed goes unpunished." is this your effort to make that saying come true?

Your comment, "you're a lonely old guy with nothing else to do but instigate a topic that will not affect you one bit."


i don't know how much you know about my social life, but "lonely," i am not. As far as, " nothing else to do but instigate a topic that will not affect you one bit," i have told you repeatedly that the rules for bracket racing as regards the starting line, are exactly the same as class racing rules, so, when i race (and, i do) it will affect me. If it didn't, i wouldn't be here. I have told you that, repeatedly too... Don't you listen?


You commented, "you're what's known in the present world as an "advocate."
i think that's an apt description. The online business dictionary says, "advocate... A person who supports a cause and exercises his right to be heard..."

that's me, all right!


Re: Your comment, " if you were a current of future s/ss racer i would have engaged in a civil discussion.but you're a nosey old busy body,nothing more nothing less."

no, i am a person who suffers under the same, universal, unfair set of rules that entail having an undue share of red light jeopardy foisted upon me, just like almost everybody else (cars that are never first-to-leave, excepted.) you, are a masochistic, "stomp me again; i like it" racer who has no concept of fairness or parity. Just because you have no objection to getting kicked in the face over and over again, doesn't mean that everybody enjoys that kind of abuse. Think of somebody besides yourself for a change...

There's no excuse for name-calling and abusive behavior on this bb. People who stoop to that, just admit intellectual bankrupty... Check out the "subject" line, up top...

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich (Post 257301)

If you're looking over your shoulder for the whole race, you're doing it wrong. And you're trying to think too much.

The starting line, by the very nature of handicap racing, is unequal. So is the finish line.

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez (Post 258037)

This red light thread is different.If Dedman was an anyway affected by this rule as a S/SS racer I could see his un ending posts.He is a bracket racer.He says he bracket races.He does not race a class car in the Lucas Oil sportsman series.f he wants to bust NHRAs balls in the Summit Racing Series,more power to him.Why should he try to get rules changed in a series he's not a participant in?Answer that for me.
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Originally Posted by John Kelley (Post 258039)

Isn't T/SA a bracket class ??? Surely not a class car.....what only TWO of them in the nation ? You and some guy from Missouri named Bob Shaw !! :-)

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry (Post 258034)

[jimi..hey bill i think it is time for you to retire!!!!!! Its getting old and all you do is complain!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incase you have not gotten it yet nobody! Let me repeat that................. Nobody cares that you think the rules are unfair !!!!!!! Could you hear that ? Wait turn up your hearing aid!!!!! I dont care what you think and from reading this post most people dont either!!!!!! Lay it to rest and move on to something else that is not complaining.]

Jimi,

I believe that you are a cowardly, disrespectful POS, who doesn't use their real name to post..

Ed is some of the above, but at least he uses his name........

Bob

Originally Posted by Chuck Rayburn (Post 258049)

Bill, before this gets carried away. I would really like to know how many times in the last 10 seasons this "unfair" situation has occurred during all the rounds of competition. I'd be willing to bet big money the probability is less than 5%.
I don't know if you have done the research or not. I do know that in order to be taken seriously by the competition committee, you will need to present some sort of empirical data to support your arguement. If the probability isn't at least 20%, I don't see any reason why NHRA would regard this as an issue.