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Old 10-18-2013, 11:22 AM   #2
Michael Beard
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Default Re: I just noticed the entries for the national event

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Originally Posted by 1320racer View Post
Herb...

1. as piedmont's track manager, your post doesn't say much about your professionalism and calls into question what should be your unbiased decision making should an issue arise between pairings, the ladder, bye runs, etc.

Herb is not Piedmont's track manager, and has not been for years.


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3. I'm a bracket racer, not a grudge racer. We don't race best of anything, we race each round to eliminate except in North Carolina where there is no tech inspection and where you can buyback until you run out of $ and if you're "lucky" enough to hold the "mulligan" that's drawn, they'll put you back in the race late in the rounds.
Loose Rocker Promotions has never had a Mulligan at any of our events, and we utilize only one round of buybacks at our bracket races, run re-entry style. As far as tech, while we've never done a complete tear down of a car, at our $20K Footbrake events, I have personally checked out nearly every car in competition to some extent, plus we have knowledgeable starters who watch for anything out of the ordinary.

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4. my comment about beard's bad day was to show he's human too as beard never misses and opportunity to tell everyone how good he is even in this thread about alleged NHRA inspections for cheating in super stock, stating his every round reaction times of his good weekend.
As explained previously, citing actual data of a car/driver that is demonstrably not cheating is the easiest way to refute a claim that people are cheating because someone doesn't believe it's statistically possible. Good lord...! SORRY I even posted anything.

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5. I have supported beard's thanksgiving race in the past as well yours and had every intention of supporting it again this year with a double entry, being that it's back at piedmont which is a far better facility than that dump known as cpd, but based on your comments above, and questionable unbiased decision making skills as the manager, I'll pass and I'll be sure to let my friends know who were on the fence why I am not going.
See (1.) above. Additionally, decisions made at Loose Rocker events are made solely by either myself or Anthony Walton, and done so as fairly as possible, made based on the circumstances, and not the driver(s) involved. Why would you bad-mouth our event based on someone who has no association with neither the event nor the facility?

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7. that all said, why make this about beard
Good idea. We've never had an issue with each other that I'm aware of, and there's no need to start one now.
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