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[bill dedman]

Jim Wahl wrote: "I stand on everything I wrote, even if Bill only wants to acknowledge the information and questions he chooses to.

There were no "questions, " only one: "Why have two or three percent of the cars (turbo cars) nailed down over fifteeen percent of the #1 qualifying slots at national events in the last four years?"

That's a simple, straightforward question. Don't try to make it more complicated than it is.... please.


Jim wrote, "Referring to me as "Jum" Wahl only goes to show how mature Bill can be."
Au contraire, mon ami, it just shows what a lousy typist/proofreader I am. I apologize for the typo in your name; it was unintentional, I assure you.



Jim wrote, " I guess Bill needs to go to breakfast with his GN turbo buddies more often so they can explain to him how turbos work. If Bill was a class racer and owned a rule book he would know that adjusting boost to allow for weather conditions is perfectly legal."

Those guys all tell me the same thing: "MORE BOOST INVARIABLY MEANS MORE POWER." That's pretty simple, too. No mystery there...

I went through my 2008 NHRA rulebook, page-by-page, scanning it for information about adjusting boost, as regards the legality of it, and I couldn't find a single word about that. Can you please tell me what page that's on? I must have missed it.

By the way, there is a separete, autonomous, part of this forum for current class racers to post. If I had a car I was unning in a class, I'd have posted this over there. I too, apologize for "hijacking" this thread; I never dreamed it would take this long to make my point.

Jim wrote, "To tell you the truth I really did not know that Bill was not a class racer. If I had known that to begin with I never would have given him the satisfaction of answering his totally skewed self serving numbers and thoughts."

I haven't had much in the way of satisfaction, because I can't seem to convince you that there is any kind of a problem, here. Maybe it's 'cause you own one of the cars that are of the type that create that problem. I have no such conflict of interest. I don't know what part of my reporting of the turbo cars that qualified #1 could be characterized as "skewed", since I reported all of the races that were in the 4-year time frame that was pertinent to the subject, which was "NATIONAL EVENT QUALIFYING." Points races are not a problem and were never a part of this discussion because of their impertinence.

Jim also wrote, "Bill needs to go road racing where things apparently are much simpler and easier to understand."

Bill's been drag racing since 1955 (no typo), and is much too old to change, now.

Lastly, the good doctor wrote, "Bill is clearly a turbohobe. He hates turbos but surrounds himself with "friends" who have them. He wishes his car had a turbo.Love / hate / fear thing? I don't know, I will leave the diagnosis up to the readers. I call it "turbophobia".

That's it; KILL THE MESSENGER, because by doing so, attention is diverted from the real issue at hand.

I hope you handle your psychology practice better than you do logic. Send the bill to Danny Gracia... It's all his fault, anyway!!!