Norwalk SG DQ

Jason Oldfield · 07-15-2013, 04:45 PM

Rick,

You'd never be able to police the amount of speed killed unless you also added qualifying, AND gave some distinct advantage to qualifying higher. The good guys would just start running their time runs to 1000', lifting there, and as such posting artificially low speeds. As you know, you can easily predict what your quarter mile time will be from the 1000' time. So, there'd really be no way to accurately determine how much speed has been killed.

I know Jon and race in his series. I saw him this past weekend and spoke to him about the incident. He feels bad it happened, and knows how lucky he was to have not hurt anyone, or damaged anything. He made a mistake (which I made myself at that same track many years ago), and is using it as a learning experience.

All that said, phenomenon or not, my personal opinion is that if smoke comes off the tires, you should be DQ'd, end of story. Stabbing the brakes at the top end is a very dangerous tactic, and simply not worth the risk. I'd much rather lose and come back to race another day, than have all my stuff junked, or worse get to have an extended stay in the hospital.

But, until NHRA starts enforcing the rule like that, people are going to continue to lock up the brakes at the finish line. NHRA's rule now is stupid...basically it states, "If you crash, you're out." Perfect.

07-15-2013, 04:45 PM	#13
Jason Oldfield Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 619 Likes: 1 Liked 10 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Norwalk SG DQ Rick, You'd never be able to police the amount of speed killed unless you also added qualifying, AND gave some distinct advantage to qualifying higher. The good guys would just start running their time runs to 1000', lifting there, and as such posting artificially low speeds. As you know, you can easily predict what your quarter mile time will be from the 1000' time. So, there'd really be no way to accurately determine how much speed has been killed. I know Jon and race in his series. I saw him this past weekend and spoke to him about the incident. He feels bad it happened, and knows how lucky he was to have not hurt anyone, or damaged anything. He made a mistake (which I made myself at that same track many years ago), and is using it as a learning experience. All that said, phenomenon or not, my personal opinion is that if smoke comes off the tires, you should be DQ'd, end of story. Stabbing the brakes at the top end is a very dangerous tactic, and simply not worth the risk. I'd much rather lose and come back to race another day, than have all my stuff junked, or worse get to have an extended stay in the hospital. But, until NHRA starts enforcing the rule like that, people are going to continue to lock up the brakes at the finish line. NHRA's rule now is stupid...basically it states, "If you crash, you're out." Perfect. __________________ Jason Oldfield S/G & S/St 1838