A Safer Routine

[novassdude]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Another good tip John. Everyone should search YouTube for the Tim McAmis take on “starting line procedure”.

He really should take his show on the road.

[Jim Bailey]

One of the "Bad Habits" I see continually, is when the crew person is examining the starting line, with their back turned to the racecar, and the racecar has begun the burnout ! Makes me cringe!

[PozQB14]

Originally Posted by Jim Bailey

One of the "Bad Habits" I see continually, is when the crew person is examining the starting line, with their back turned to the racecar, and the racecar has begun the burnout ! Makes me cringe!

I agree Jim. I still can't understand why these pro teams and even sportsman cars feel a need to have someone stand infront of the car as it's doing a burnout. Do you really plan on changing the trajectory of the car when the wheels are spinning? The pros have to back up anyways, thats when you put them in the groove. NHRA should not allow these people to stand infront of a car like that, itll take one time for someone getting ran over to make that not allowed.

[rboyle]

I almost always do my warm up on a jack with jackstands instead of driving around the pits as many often do. Too many cars with bad sight lines driving around spectators and golf carts and scooters and other race cars.