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Your either in front or behind no reason to ever be wide open...just sayin
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Philbilly... Spoken like a old bracket racer! And I mean that in a good way!
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It doesn't matter what the person in the other lane is doing if you cut a light and run your number. The problem sets in when the person in the other lane is hiding the performance of the car so that they "don't get horsepower". This way they have the advantage over another competitor in a heads up race. NHRA should be doing their homework and take the 1/8 mile ET's, MPH and adjust HP to the vehicle from that point of the track, not the 1/4 mile ET, MPH. There would be alot less 1000' racers then, they would have go to the 330' not to show their hand. Good luck on dialing in from the 330' for a 1/4 mile race.
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that's why if you make the rule that you can only go one tenth faster then your fastest time on the Q sheet even in a head's up race.so at that point a racer would have to show some kind of performance so he don't get burned on a head's up run. that would get rid of the 1000 ft qualifing.
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What's not to say that the drivers of the cars that have to race each other heads up make a deal not to race further then the 1000' so that they don't show the performance of the cars. You have to remember that there are factory cars out there now that aren't even close to their potential as far as HP being added to them. So why not make the deal with the other drivers of the same factory cars? They are in a win win situation, race to the 1000' and lift, no one gets HP. Make them race to the 330' not to get HP would work best.
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it is just an idea something to keep this thread going.years ago everybody ran off of the record with a tenth under break out we all know that was only good for two or three cars in the nation.
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I liked it that way. I won points races a tenth off the record, and was closer to it than anybody else there. Jack Mullins with his big old Pontiac wagon could run under more than often anybody else I knew.
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I do not believe that hiding performance is the main reason why racers run to 1000 and lift. The smart ones do it to secure a friendly ladder position. Those racers, more often than not, go deep rounds on Sunday. What happens on Sunday is the reason why we compete. |
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