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[BRINK]

Another example why we need to reinstate the draft for this "wonderful" generation of jerk-offs.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by BRINK

Another example why we need to reinstate the draft for this "wonderful" generation of jerk-offs.

Oh how I wished the Govt. would bring back the draft !

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by BRINK

Another example why we need to reinstate the draft for this "wonderful" generation of jerk-offs.

No wonder most kids today want nothing to do with organized drag racing. You crying old men are pathetic !

[ss3011]

My home track is Milan Dragway , they wait for both cars to exit before they signal us to do the burnout . Works well . Funny how Lebanon Valley was my home track when I started drag racing back in the 70's . The shutdown was so short we all had to turn around on the track to get back to the turn off . They didn't send any cars down the track until the other cars were off the track .

[Michael K]

Might be a good idea to hand out a brochure explaining track etiquette, procedures, and shutdown/return road diagrams when drivers pay their entry fee.

[1320racer]

There’s novel idea, track owners and managers doing more than just taking your money at the gate especially on a test/tune day.

[Rich Biebel]

It doesn't matter if your driving on the highway at 65 or at the race track at 100...or faster.....

You don't change lanes or cross in front of someone and cut them off trying to make an exit....


Stay in your own lane and be aware of the other driver....

We should not have painted it as a young vs old issue....that was a mistake and we got going down that road and should not have

Its a safety issue.....period.

Could the track hand out a brochure or flyer to cover some basic safety issues.....yes......they could....would it help/ Only if it was taken seriously and read !

I can recall my first pass down a drag strip in my street car...it was a little intimidating at first......I was 18

[pentastarrail]

It has to be more than just the track.
I raced at a National Event not to long ago (Last E-town Event).

This was qualifying.
I was the faster car and in the right lane, no one at the end directing cars (they were packing chutes, etc).
I stopped in my lane on the track, not knowing where the guy in the left lane was. He was behind me but I didn't know.

BOY, did I get an AZZ CHEWING for NOT turning off.
He said and I quote, "The faster car ALWAYS has the Right of Way to get off the track".

I tried to explain about what if he had no brakes or whatever, I can't see behind me.
They did NOT want to hear it and were PISSED.

So it's NOT so clear.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

We should not have painted it as a young vs old issue...

Rich, in my original post I put kid in parentheses. I guess that I should have made note of the fact that the driver of the other car was younger than me. He was not an 18 year old.

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

We should not have painted it as a young vs old issue....that was a mistake and we got going down that road and should not have

But it was and it was also implied that the “kid” had a car that he neither was qualified to race nor purchased.

As long as we continue to complain about the few young men and women in this sport. largely driven by jealously and/or some self righteous, self serving notion that these “kids” haven’t paid their dues and therefore are undeserving of the Car they race and their successes, the future of drag racing is doomed and it will die with the moniker of the old man sport that it has become.