Oh brother. How did we know this was going to happen?
We're now going to have another "the fast guys have all the advantages" whine fest.
Fine. We don't
need the blinders. It is just a stupid rule, that unnecessarily punishes good people who did nothing wrong, for no reason. But that's okay. I like leaving off the bottom bulb, and blocking the other two, but I don't have to. If they want to allow deep staging, that's fine, too.
I really couldn't care less whether you "go to bat" or not. I've never cared about deep staging, one way or another. My issue with blinders is that they were legal, and there's actually no valid reason to make them illegal. But hey, if the slow guys crying helped them make the decision, oh well. And if you're okay not standing up and saying the rule was wrong, because you want to "trade" deep staging and true start for standing up, that's cool, too.
Like I said to a friend the other night, regarding another bogus NHRA decision, and what was said about it, "tell me again why I'm looking at sacrificing my financial security to go back to Stock or Super Stock".
