Oil Downs (Beat to Death)

Jess Suter · 02-27-2011, 07:21 PM

The first round of top fuel and funny car took 90 minutes. So did the 2nd session with half the cars! The rest of the racers sit and wait. They couldnt start sportsmen early beacause the track was too cold. I understand this as having been there many years. NHRA is only concerned for the ESPN show-period. Look at the stands on ESPN3, alot of empty seats. People want to see racing not idiots shooting shirts into the crowd nor do they want to see the sweepers going up and down the track. The trickle down effect will of course be to the sportsman. I wonder how many teams have burned their "freebie" in the first race of the year? Not a great way to start the year off in my opinion. Here it is already 3:15 pST and still have not seen any true sportsman on the track. Probably won't happen today because once the sun starts setting the track goes away. Toby called it on Friday-sportsman will run on monday! Awfully sad. NHRA HAS to do something about these oil downs. Penalties and points obviously don't work so what is the answer? 1 engine per event? Automatic DQ? I don't know what will work but it has to be cleaned up som how

02-27-2011, 07:21 PM	#13
Jess Suter Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 36 Likes: 7 Liked 7 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Oil Downs (Beat to Death) The first round of top fuel and funny car took 90 minutes. So did the 2nd session with half the cars! The rest of the racers sit and wait. They couldnt start sportsmen early beacause the track was too cold. I understand this as having been there many years. NHRA is only concerned for the ESPN show-period. Look at the stands on ESPN3, alot of empty seats. People want to see racing not idiots shooting shirts into the crowd nor do they want to see the sweepers going up and down the track. The trickle down effect will of course be to the sportsman. I wonder how many teams have burned their "freebie" in the first race of the year? Not a great way to start the year off in my opinion. Here it is already 3:15 pST and still have not seen any true sportsman on the track. Probably won't happen today because once the sun starts setting the track goes away. Toby called it on Friday-sportsman will run on monday! Awfully sad. NHRA HAS to do something about these oil downs. Penalties and points obviously don't work so what is the answer? 1 engine per event? Automatic DQ? I don't know what will work but it has to be cleaned up som how __________________ Jess Suter 7305 Stock/SS Duster "life is not a rehearsal"