[Billy Nees]

There is no need to write a rule about retaliatory protests. If you pony up to tear someone down, you should be willing to take what you dish out. You too should be legal and willing to prove it. If not, you have no business protesting. Think about it this way. Suppose there's a rule about retaliatory protests. Then there is the opportunity for preemptive protests. A guy hears someone is thinking about protesting him. All he has to do is beat the other guy to the tech trailer, and tear him down first.

Alan, I'd agree to take my stuff apart as part of a protest against another racer. BUT, you can't tell me you haven't seen reprisals down the road. I shouldn't complain because for the amount of abuse I give the tech dept. I still like to think that they deal with me in a civil manner. BUT, I have been "picked on" a time or two over the years.



I am all for real tech inspection, and real rule enforcement. I have no problem with being torn down. No one wants my "slow secrets" anyway. But it shouldn't be done so as to create ugly situations, and it does not have to be.

Agreed, BUT REAL tech inspection and REAL rule enforcement requires all of the rules to be applied to all of the racers equally, east coast to west coast, north to south and if a tech inspector has a business or social aquaintence with a racer then he should excuse himself from the decision making process for the racer concerned.





The problem with all of this is still that NHRA management would still have ultimate control, since it happens at their event. And they'd have the ultimate liability. So this ain't real likely, either.[/QUOTE]

BUT it is also our event as we paid for and we have the right to expect a safe, fair and equitible environment!