Horsepower on tuesday

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

Can someone from NHRA please tell us why runs of -1.20 are not an automatic rod and piston teardown. If you single handily put power on a combination NHRA should at least take the time to check and confirm every spec on the car is correct. So far this year there have been 8 different -1.20 runs at national events and points meets and not on Rod and Piston check.

Charlie Bob, that's simple. NHRA won't spend the monies to have enough people on hand to handle a race as it is let alone having KNOWLEDGEABLE, HANDS-ON people capable of doing tear downs.
The capable people at VMP this weekend were too busy doing every thing else involved in putting on the race to tear down anything.
But you're right, it should be mandatory, it affects too many other people to let slide.