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Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY
I firmly believe that the time has come for a CLASS RACER wall of SHAME. In the last few years the actions of just a FEW racers has really TARNISHED the CLASS in CLASS RACER. ...LARRY HILL posed an interesting question on another thread. What about the racers that were BEATEN by a car that was ultimately DQ ed ?????? Think about that for a minute or two ????? ........
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The title of the thread is CLASS RACER wall of SHAME, yet there is actually on ONE name mentioned (and he got booted for a "judgment" infraction). THIS is why drag racing is in the shape it is, to no small degree. Nobody will actually pin the tail on the donkey. There have been hundreds of examples of absolutely
blatant cheating throughout the past decades, but the offender is either not punished at all, or is given a DQ for that race. If we all think back to the good old days, we remember that a good competitive Super Stock car could be built (in its entirety) for the price of a really good set of heads and an intake manifold today. Ported heads? Used to be illegal. Million-dollar aftermarket rotating assemblies with Honda rod journals? Same thing. Racing continues to grow more and more expensive (and therefore illogical), because nobody (and not just NHRA) takes truly decisive action against cheating. Laws don't stop behavior... enforcement does.