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Originally Posted by Mike Carr
There is no logical or legitimate reason the leave the rule as is. The worst redlight rule is the fairest way to do it, for all handicap-tree racers. The current system favors the faster car in a bracket racing situation. I, and just about anyone else, would agree with that.
Now, with that said, Bill, why don't you email/call/write/fax/postcard/Facebook/Myspace/smoke signal/morse code/pigeon carrier/whatever you have to do, send it to NHRA/IHRA and air your grievance with them? Instead of taking up valuable space on here to argue and complain about a system that affects REAL Class Racers? Seriously. We get it. We got it a long time ago. Again, based on most racers post(s) on here, it seems very few care at all, or at least as strongly as you, about this issue. Take it up with someone that can actually change the way things work, instead of constantly yammering about it on here. I still say, as would the majority of Class Racers, that there are bigger problems that the xHRA's need to address and fix first for Class Racing before the Christmas Tree issue.
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Mike, I'm glad you "get it." If you, and guys like you truly "get it," why don't you do anything about it? It's a 46 year-old problem that affects half the racers in any round of handicap racing.
I guarantee you if NHRA came out with new rule than said all red cars now have to carry 50 additional pounds of ballast, there would be moaning, groaning, gnashing of teeth and whining 'til NHRA did something about it.
Why not this???
"they just don't care..."
You act like Class racers are the only ones affected by this.
I KNOW you know a LOT about Bracket racing. If I line up against your Bracket car, and you have the slower car, does it not bother you that your red light just took me out of red light jeopardy, and deposited me in the winners' circle, even though you only bulbed..002 and I left .023 early??
I think that bracket racers everywhere, are affected equally, by the first red light rule.
Insofar as "valuable space" on this forum, goes, I can't think of a better use of it than trying to "right" an ongoing, 46-year old, injustice to the slower car. There are people who post jokes, private conversations, unfounded rumors, political opinions and just about everything you can think of, on on this forum... I appreciate the opportunity to have it at my disposal, but when the subject matter is something as pertinent and serious as NHRA rules, I can't see that I am doing anything wrong. This forum is for people who want to discuss racing, and the rules are part and parcel of that.
If someone doesn't want to read it, they should do what I do when I find a subject boring, impertinent, or of no value; go to the next forum... there are lots of excellent subjects here to read; they don't have to read my Don Quixote prattle... (Thank you, Ed.)
Thanks again for your comments, Mike. Have a happy Holiday!!!