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Originally Posted by Brad Plourd
Yes this is no ones fault but my own. I caught him earlier than expected and I didn't need to be a "hero" down there. I am in the process of figuring out ways to take the stripe everytime with the nose, like Lamb's car. Sucks it cost me a National win to finally do something about it.
Hawk is correct, when we stage...we accept all aspects of our cars.
My car is already so low it is difficult to load into the trailer, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna do. I did have my front end looser with 0lbs on nose because of no air in Vegas so that might have played a role too.
Getting sun burned in La Paz, Mexico...what an amazing place.
Seeya in St Louis...
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Brad I wish you better luck in St Louis, but I'll offer you another angle on why I disagree with Brad Hawk (and think you're falsely blaming yourself):
If you get a chance to see the finish line freeze frame of your cars frontal area as opposed to his, you'll see that the lowest edge of the nose of your car was nearly even with the most forward point of your front tire (maybe 1-2" lower than the center of your wheel). However, his lowest point of that same area was nearly equal to the lowest part of his wheel. It looked to me like his frontal area was 3-5" lower than yours, thus giving him the advantage.
I'll be ok with your opinion of the race (I'll be re-watching it on my video tape), but it still doesn't make that right, because it wasn't a fair race (for you or Dennis Paz)...both of those races (the Super Gas & Super Stock Finals) started with the front tires, they should've finished it with them too!!!
Chris Lamb, I'm sorry that Justin lost that race he lost the same way, but that just adds more to the reason that the finish beams need to be the same height as the staging beams are...