Brad Plourd, you were robbed last week!

[GarysZ24]

A thread awhile back spoke about this last week, but I just watched the final of Super Stock between Brad Plourd, and Justin Lamb (ESPN'S coverage of the recent Las Vegas national event), and cameras don't lie...they showed two frozen shots of the finish line between the two cars, and Brad the nose of your car was at the back of the finish line stripe, while Justin's was just getting at the middle of it. However looking at the bodies as opposed to how much they covered the tires I can see why you lost...Justin's frontal area was lower than yours, thus allowing the ground effects of his cars nose to trip the finish line beam ahead of your front tire. You had the reaction time advantage by .007, and if your frontal area was 1-2" lower, than that outcome would've been reversed...that's messed up, because you lost a race you should've won!

The same can be said of the Super Gas final, because Dennis Paz's Willys clearly beat Mike Ferderers Grand Am to the stripe, but since Paz's Willys didn't have the ground effects that Ferderers Grand Am had, the nose of Mikes car tripped the beam sooner that Dennis's front tire...that's a bummer for both Dennis and Brad.

I wish either the rules committee would either ask N.H.R.A., to either raise the height of the sensor at the finish line so that older cars could use their frontal area to trip the finish line too, or that they'd lower them so that the winner will once again trip the finish line with their front tire ONLY...like they used to! Dan Fletcher lost a race he should've won (that he spoke about in is dragster article not long ago), because of the same thing. I spoke with an NHRA tech guy over this last week, and thus now feel they probably won't do anything to equalize this (even though they should), but I think it's messed up...what's fair for some, should be fair for all, right??? How does everybody else feel about it. I think I know how Dan, Brad, and Dennis feel about it!!! My .02 worth