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Dan Bennett · 09-01-2018, 02:09 PM

It's been a while since I've been in the tower reporting, but I watched the anti-computer NHRA take its first very reluctant steps into the modern age.

I doubt things have changed. Back then there was a single person responsible for connectivity and I never saw them once. Evidently NHRA contracted the job out and then paid no attention whatsoever to whether it was working or actually being done at all. So the guy would come in the day before the race, hook up his equipment, and essentially hide for the rest of the event.

If it hadn't been for Phil Burgess, we wouldn't even have what we have now. He was the only one I knew who understood what the net would become, and took a whole lot of lumps talking to the those in power. They were totally clueless about what was happening and it really looked like they were a bit afraid of it also.

What he was proposing (in their minds) was giving up a bunch of power, and would cost more money. Those of us who've been around the NHRA for more than a couple of months know that's pretty much the same today.

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Dan Bennett Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 439 Likes: 850 Liked 595 Times in 136 Posts	Re: NHRA ALL ACCESS Screwed up again !! It's been a while since I've been in the tower reporting, but I watched the anti-computer NHRA take its first very reluctant steps into the modern age. I doubt things have changed. Back then there was a single person responsible for connectivity and I never saw them once. Evidently NHRA contracted the job out and then paid no attention whatsoever to whether it was working or actually being done at all. So the guy would come in the day before the race, hook up his equipment, and essentially hide for the rest of the event. If it hadn't been for Phil Burgess, we wouldn't even have what we have now. He was the only one I knew who understood what the net would become, and took a whole lot of lumps talking to the those in power. They were totally clueless about what was happening and it really looked like they were a bit afraid of it also. What he was proposing (in their minds) was giving up a bunch of power, and would cost more money. Those of us who've been around the NHRA for more than a couple of months know that's pretty much the same today.