1968 Camaro in C/SA?

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Dave Ficacci

Alan,

Thank you for confirming he is racing a combo that doesn't exist in the guide. If another racer builds this combo, which NHRA tech official do they ask to run this special class and combo?

BTW I have nothing but upmost respect for Jimmy however his merits or circumstances doesn't make him exempt from the rules that everyone else has to adhere too.

Fred is right on this

Dave,
With all due respect, "not in the guide"? Since when? Last I looked, the 65 Corvette 396/425 was in the guide. Jimmy's combination is just that, 1965 Corvette 396/425, manual transmission only. With aluminum replacement heads, 411HP as of 7/9/13, when Jimmy was, and still is last I looked, the only person racing that combination, iron heads or aluminum heads. In July of 2013, when they added HP, to the aluminum head ONLY, Jimmy was told, by an NHRA official, that the car could now legally move to SS/B. There was no "exemption", Jimmy asked a question, and was given an incorrect opinion, by an NHRA official. There's no "combination that does not exist in the guide", period.


By the way, after all of the complaining, by people who don't even run the class, Jimmy was informed by NHRA at Bowling Green on Memorial Day weekend that the opinion that he was given by the NHRA official was incorrect, and that he had to move to SS/C. No penalty was given, no reprimand was made, Jimmy was merely informed that the ruling by the NHRA official was incorrect.


So, no, Fred is not correct, at all. There's no made up combination, and no special exception made for Jimmy Bridges. There was just an honest mistake made by an NHRA official, nothing more, nothing less. The accusations that Jimmy Bridges asked for or was granted a special favor or exception, is racing a combination that is not in the guide, or that anyone did anything dishonest in the situation, are absolutely false.