Roadsters in TS or TD

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

As Jeff said the usual left steer roadster had a frame that was a system of hoops with the cage sitting on top. Since they were off center it appears that in crashes they were getting twisted off, along with the driver's head and upper body. Even the well built left steer roadsters, Cage hoop running all the way to the lower frame rails, is required to put in the little gussets. There is daylight and dark difference in the center steer alterteds and left steer roadsters. The new Vette bodies are way more aero and the old 27's are like a wing flying upside down. Bad areo. They have no place in TS if you ask me. That is just an accident waiting to kill someone. Yes, I feel I can speak as an authority on left steer roadster. I'm a left steer roadster owner and a survivor of another one that crash @ 154 mph. (Vinny's Comp World champ car)

Just so I understand what you are saying here... You think that a full bodied car is safer than a left hand steer roadster? If that is in fact what you are saying, you never saw some of the cars that used to run T/S in div 3. LOL

[C and W Racing]

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I don't think that the roadsters will certify any faster than a 7.50. I think that is why they won't let them in. They wont let a door car in unless is has a 6.0 tag on it, even if it will only run 7.90's. NHRA is not going to start trying to police which car has what cert and making sure its not running faster than it is certified for, so the easiest way to do that is not let a 7.50 cert in the class. At least thats my 2 cents worth. lol
Chuck

[Bill Baer]

Ryan

Obviously a roadster like yours would have a couple of advantages in top sportsman it 's lighter and has much better visibility to drive the finish line.
So if they allowed cars like yours in, it would soon make door cars obsolete.
As far as top dragster it think there could be a safety concern with short wheel base roadsters running in the 200+MPH range (It may not have happened yet, but if allowed it surely would)
So I don't forsee these thing changing in near the future.

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by Bill Baer

Ryan

Obviously a roadster like yours would have a couple of advantages in top sportsman it 's lighter and has much better visibility to drive the finish line.
So if they allowed cars like yours in, it would soon make door cars obsolete.
As far as top dragster it think there could be a safety concern with short wheel base roadsters running in the 200+MPH range (It may not have happened yet, but if allowed it surely would)
So I don't forsee these thing changing in near the future.

Bill, I see what you are saying but.... The top sportsman fields have been faster than the top dragster fields several times. My point is that the shorter wheelbase top sportsman cars are often faster than most of the top dragster cars (not all of them, but several). They also are allowed to run altereds in top dragster and they have short wheelbases too. Some of them are pretty out of control.

[C and W Racing]

Originally Posted by C and W Racing

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I don't think that the roadsters will certify any faster than a 7.50. I think that is why they won't let them in. They wont let a door car in unless is has a 6.0 tag on it, even if it will only run 7.90's. NHRA is not going to start trying to police which car has what cert and making sure its not running faster than it is certified for, so the easiest way to do that is not let a 7.50 cert in the class. At least thats my 2 cents worth. lol
Chuck

Ryan, what will your roadster certify to? If you know the answer, then you know the reason
Chuck

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by C and W Racing

Ryan, what will your roadster certify to? If you know the answer, then you know the reason
Chuck

My car is plenty safe to go high 7's (which is all the faster it will go). Not saying I could qualify at every race, but I could at some.

[C and W Racing]

Ryan, I don't doubt that your car is plenty safe. Like I keep trying to say though is, a top sportsman car has to cert to 6.0. NHRA will not let a 7.50 car run top sportsman. Roadsters wont certify to that, so they are not going to let one in the class. Don't shoot the messenger
Chuck

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by C and W Racing

Ryan, I don't doubt that your car is plenty safe. Like I keep trying to say though is, a top sportsman car has to cert to 6.0. NHRA will not let a 7.50 car run top sportsman. Roadsters wont certify to that, so they are not going to let one in the class. Don't shoot the messenger
Chuck

Thats actually not true according to the rule book. You only have to be certified for as fast as you are running.

[C and W Racing]

Originally Posted by TS310C

Thats actually not true according to the rule book. You only have to be certified for as fast as you are running.

I guess I should clearify that. In Div 2 they won't let a 7.50 car in. I had thought about running top sportsman several years ago and at the time my car was certifyed to 7.50 and was told they weren't going to let me run it because if they started letting 7.50 cars in the class, then they would have to start policing all the runs and who was legal. I rechassised my car and it now is a 6.0 cert, but I made the decision to not run top sportsman because it was getting to where some people were driving way over there head and taking a lot of unnecesssary chances and causing a lot of crashes and I wanted no part of that. Good luck though, if you are going to continue the fight to get a roadster into the class. Just don't see it happening
Chuck

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by TS310C

Thats actually not true according to the rule book. You only have to be certified for as fast as you are running.

Sounds like the tech guys were just being lazy. LOL

I don't plan to fight for it, but I just think there should be some other options for roadsters. It would probably make more sense to let them in to Top Dragster, which would be fine with me.