Some afterseason thought

[Mike Carr]

Originally Posted by Ryan Horensky

If your triple .000, one thou under giving up the stripe by one thou, what ARE the ways you can lose? My friend Bryan Sorce posted this on a forum yesterday and received some pretty interesting answers. So what do all of you think?

If a racer is .000 on the tree, -.001 under the dial, their total package is -.001 To lose by .001, nothing I can think of would cause you to lose (barring a track official DQ'ing you for something, excessibe breaking, boundary line violation). The opponent's package would have to be some combination of ET/RT to equal -.002, for them to take the one-thou stripe you mentioned.

The only thing I can think of, would be if you ran too fast for what you/your car was certified for (i.e. running quicker than 7.50 with a competition license/chassis certification that is good to as quick as 7.50 but no quicker. It happened to Bo Butner in AA/SM (now known as CC/A) at the Indy LODRS in 2006, he ran 7.49 in qualifying, in a car that was certified only to 7.50, and was DQ'd from the event).