Las Vegas super stock wreck, no DQ, pictures included

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Tell me about, Mike. Using Freeze in a can is clearly illegal too..But apparently it's okay now , late at night, right behind the tower.

Oh come on Mark, no self respected racer would do that as it's clearly in violation of the rules .......

[Dan Fletcher]

I've often wondered why the computer dust off spray was deemed illegal to begin with. How isn't that better than ice on the track?

[Jeff Teuton]

I think in the Top Stock days, we frightened the officials by empting 4 to 6 cans right before we pulled into the water box. Looked like a smokey burnout under the hood. And I think NHRA followed suit.

[HandOverFist]

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[dragracer2011]

So the Hughes kid got DQ'd on a bye run at 3 cars cause they suspected he knew he had brake problems when they had proved via racepak he had brake pressure when he staged, but this guy doesn't because there were no skid marks but you can clearly see in the video what happened? I am sorry, I don't get this at all, just my .02

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by Dan Fletcher

I've often wondered why the computer dust off spray was deemed illegal to begin with. How isn't that better than ice on the track?

Probably because there's more profit for the track in a bag of ice since most tracks charge 10 bucks for a bag of frozen water!

[Allen Sherman]

Originally Posted by HR9121

Probably because there's more profit for the track in a bag of ice since most tracks charge 10 bucks for a bag of frozen water!

LOL!! The frozen water business is definitely high profit at the track! But I totally agree with fletch, the spray was way less mess

[mikey767]

I agree with fletcher. The can is less of a mess than ice but in Div 7 they don't mind. Last year in a heads up, my opponent dropped dry ice all over the track and he wasn't dq!!!

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Dan Fletcher

I've often wondered why the computer dust off spray was deemed illegal to begin with. How isn't that better than ice on the track?

Way better from a fluid on track perspective! Remember doing it at Joliet once on a Nova after pushing it from the near end of the pits. Don't recall doing it on Tom and Carol's Top Stock car. Remember IHRA giving Morgan a real hard time on it at a race, still don't know why cant believe an aluminum intake can wick that much heat. Real world, someone would have to test back to back to see if the aerosol cans actually work in 95 degree sunshine by the time you stage or if it all just a placebo.

As to the braking issue, didn't Bruno smack the wall in Chicago a few years back? I think who ever was driving his Camaro this year didn't hit anything but had it get loose at the stripe. I did it once at Union Grove on grudge night with a Turbo Regal. Dialed 14 something against a 9 or 10 second Modified Eliminator Bug. I'm way down track looking back and forth in the mirror waiting for his green light and coasting near 1000' and finally realize they dialed me in at 19 seconds. Looked like 14 at the line... I hit the brakes and he said it looked like tire smoke billowing but being on four stock Goodyears it was just like driving on a Chicago expressway, no issues. I did learn a lesson and just dialed it in at 19 seconds after that. Nice and cool going down track in July with the A/C working

[Tom Meyer]

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
6 David Rampy 1781 Dan Fletcher
E5 0.026 10.203 129.47 ****WINNER**** 0.009 10.401 117.41
GT/HA Dial: 10.18 (+/-): 0.023 FSS/I Dial: 10.37 (+/-): 0.031
Prior rounds:
E4 (D Keen ) 0.011 10.152 0.002 (A Emmer ) 0.017 10.360 0.040
E3 (M Cotten ) 0.011 10.135 0.005 (A Stanfield ) 0.022 10.311 0.001
E2 (T Janes ) 0.014 10.203 0.043 (D Barcelon ) 0.033 10.351 0.011
E1 (D Bridgewate) 0.006 10.154 0.024 (K Angeles Pa) 0.016 10.356 0.026
Qualified: #9 10.157 -0.893 #56 10.242 -0.208

Dan Fletcher leaves first with a nine light and smokes the tire in the light to not break out.MOV: 0.0095 seconds (approximately 22 inches).

Nothing against Dan but?