[bill dedman]

Ed,
RE your comment: "It still comes down to the fact that you are BRACKET RACING not CLASS RACING.Go and tell it to the guys in the bracket racing section."

Show me the difference in the outcome in a Bracket race and a handicapped Stock/Super Stock race if I am the first car to leave, and I red light.

There IS NO DIFFERENCE!

In BOTH CASES, the first car to leave has been ruled the LOSER, without the other car ever having a chance to face the same red light jeopardy as I faced.

It's not an equitable situation in EITHER race; The first to leave is screwed, in both cases.

There is another BB on this site for people who actually run a class car with a permanent number. You can't post there, unless you have one. I can't post there, because my racing is just Bracket variety....

This site is for people like me; it's available to anyone who has pictures, stories, and ideas that they feel might be of interest, or for discussion. That's why this site exists.

I am certain that NHRA is oblivious to me, and has no interest at all in what I say here. My "blathering", as you call it, might be read by them at some point, but if it's really just "blathering," then they will have ZERO interest in it. My comments and ideas are directed at people who RACE (Bracket OR Class), who have the ability to think for themselves and who might be open to new ideas.

As I said, it took me a long time (weeks, actually) to be able to grasp the way this works, simple though it may be, because I was so "set in my ways" and steeped in tradition. I'm sure the poor guy explaining it to me ran out of patience, long before I finally "got it".... because it had always been the "other" way.

I would hope that if enough racers get wind of this method of running the red light program, which favors NOBODY, tthat THEY will pressure NHRA to change it, but that may take years, if EVER....

I'm not holding my breath...