Lack of contingency decals on cars????

[Michael Beard]

I remember putting them on the car as late as 10 minutes before the final.

That's a great way to lose ALL of your contingency money in IHRA, and in NHRA, those "slapped" decals are not supposed to be counted (I thought NHRA had the same "slap one, lose all" policy, but I did not see that as such in the '09 Rulebook). It's disrespectful to the sponsor at best, and just one more reason the sponsor can question themselves on "Why are we doing this?"

If you don't want to run decals, don't, but I believe it is in our sport's best interest to support the sponsors. Buy the products and run their decals (all the time, not just in the finals). There are a lot of companies who have been VERY good to the sportsman racer, and they deserve every bit of support and advertising we can give them in return.