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Originally Posted by art leong
In the first place. The way the eliminator was worded was "class winners and quailified losers"
Not quaified losers then class winners.
A bunch of whining pansies were jealous because they couldn't race. And got the rule changed.
Years ago if you didn't win class you went home. The racers then were winners not whiners. If you didn't win class you didn't get to race.
But now a bunch of you seem to think its your God given right to race.
I want to THANK you for doing your best to RUIN the sport I grew up with.
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Nowhere does it mention any racer by name. Once again, when taken personally, these discussions are meaningless. It then turns into a playground brawl and the one with the loudest keyboard seems to win.
The focus allways needs to remain the same; not what's good for me, what is good for the sport?
NHRA Drag racing is a sport which involves more diversification in "equipment" than any other sport. Almost anything can, and does, race. With such diversification, there is NO WAY NHRA can mandate how many cars must be in attendance in order for a class win to be "legit". That means NHRA can not dictate a single for class win is unacceptable any more than they can say it takes 10 participants to qualify a winner.
Having only the fastest qualified field insures a limited amount of entries. Then the rule book will be updated yearly only to reflect the rules for the trick of the year entry.
I'm for class winners being "placed" (NHRA's wording) into the eliminator
first, furthest under or qualified vehicles,
second.
I'm for anything that creates more heads-up runs. This is what seperates us from bracket racing. If it takes 1# weight breaks, combining transmissions, or combining classes, so be it. Show me a race won by a driver that needed to win 3 heads-up runs and I'll show you a real racer.
I
suspect some of the traveling "pro's", which don't seem to be very competitive against the index they run against, are the biggest proponents of this movement. Seems the heads-up runs are the thorn in their side.