deep staging

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by partsbob67

does anybody know why deep staging in the sportsman classes is illegal? courtesy staging?

It's illegal because about 20 years ago, a few guys were winning regularly, deep. Jody, Toby, Donny Sabin, Scott Welborn.
A couple of cowboys decided to try to throw these off their game plan. They'd do a short burnout and rush up and stage and try to leave the D/S'er no time to stage.
Supposedly, NHRA put it to a vote and DEEP lost..
Problem there was the majority, who didn't go deep got to vote on something that was none of their business. On top of that, some guys right here on C/R got to mouth off, when they had no idea why the guys were going deep. They didn't understand the process at all.
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