Excessive Breaking?

[Tom Turner]

Allen Sherman has it right....Emmons got screwed. I have watched this video about 50 times and I don't see anything that couldn't be construed as good bracket driving. No smoke from the fronts (or rears) No Tim (Joey Chitwood) Fletcher display of skills, no reason at all to DQ. Both driver's were hard on the brakes....it's the way they race.
I have known Kyle Rizzoli since he was riding his big wheel around the pits and eating co co puffs for most meals.He is a good racer and friend. I was happy for him and the win when I first viewed the results but after hearing about the DQ and viewing the video from the finish line.....No doubt in my mind who actually won. My opinion of course. TT

[curtis hieb]

If it is a rule to not smoke tires at finish line maybe NHRA should put it in rule book so there people know what we can do and not do. Then everyone can be clear and Jerry would have been fine.

[TBR151J]

Rulings related to this topic for a very, very long time have been very subjective. I have seen people lock them up next to me and move on with just a slap on the wrist, people get tossed for doing it and the other person reinstated, and everything in between. For once, NHRA needs to get rid of the ambiguity, put it in writing in the rulebook, and let us racers know what is what instead of making their decisions off the cuff every round or every race based on how they feel at that moment in time.

[Ron Ortiz]

Come on guys, give me a brake with all this nonsense. Of coarse we kneed to think safety, butt at what point dew we draw the line. Don't mean two sound course, NHRA should bee concerned with this situation, they mite set a precedent if they included it inn the rules. Eye believe that if they did, someone wood invent a smokeless tire.

New Rule Rule; their will bee know smoking at the Finnish line.

ron ortiz
you Stock aw toe matt tick

[Jeff Stout]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

Come on guys, give me a brake with all this nonsense. Of coarse we kneed to think safety, butt at what point dew we draw the line. Don't mean two sound course, NHRA should bee concerned with this situation, they mite set a precedent if they included it inn the rules. Eye believe that if they did, someone wood invent a smokeless tire.

New Rule Rule; their will bee know smoking at the Finnish line.

ron ortiz
you Stock aw toe matt tick

I sea what you did their.

[Jeff Stout]

Im all for excessive braking which includes smoke, lane change before or after finishline, out of control even though you stay between lane lines. The Emmons race was called WRONG. No smoke, no lane change, no out of control. I would like to see the prior round that he was supposedly warning.

[Neil Smedley]

I agree with Bob Mulry`s assessment....And suggest a closer look at timing tower Nepotism as well............

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

Come on guys, give me a brake with all this nonsense. Of coarse we kneed to think safety, butt at what point dew we draw the line. Don't mean two sound course, NHRA should bee concerned with this situation, they mite set a precedent if they included it inn the rules. Eye believe that if they did, someone wood invent a smokeless tire.

New Rule Rule; their will bee know smoking at the Finnish line.

ron ortiz
you Stock aw toe matt tick

^^ LOL

After reading all the posts about spelling, I knew someone was going to do that.

[Carguy49]

I have a question about this deal.

Instead of excessive braking, what would happen if you just lifted your foot off the throttle a bit at the finish line???

Might take a little time to know how much is enough and I am not talking taking you foot completely off the pedal, just enough to slow down safely.

Yes, I know it is about dumping the other guy or gal.

[63corvette]

Someone might want to ask the final race winner in this case about the result of his excessive braking at the finish line at the Salt Lake Division Race in 2015.
I was there and parked two trailers down from him.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX