Fake battery, dq or not

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

How is a fake battery not outright cheating?

Its not the most offensive bending of the rules that goes on, but likely one of the easiest to detect. If they want to really send the message, they will add the six month vacation that comes with other clearly intentional DQ offenses.

Eric

[RJ Sledge]

Eric giving people vacations for violations is counterproductive to padding the bottom line at NHRA. I believe they will start just letting the "violator" pay a $fine get it corrected, run the race and then they can see his contribution for the next race he enters.

RJ