No Blinders

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Bob Gullett

https://www.nhraracer.com/content/ge...715&zoneid=132
Are you kidding me? This is the reason for banning blinders? And hood scoop cars that drive around haven’t just about ran over or crashed into a few things because they can’t see a thing? Wow.

What a FRICKEN crock of chitt …...Who in their right mind would keep their blinder pulled down while driving through the pits…

[Stan Hawes]

Is a stock sunviser considered a blinder ?
Stan Hawes

[mitch kight]

Two-steps are next!

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Stan Hawes

Is a stock sunviser considered a blinder ?
Stan Hawes

No Stan, OEM sun visors are still allowed …
****. ……Stan Hawes Institute of Technology

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

What a FRICKEN crock of chitt …...Who in their right mind would keep their blinder pulled down while driving through the pits…

Actually, if you read section 7.8, blinders are supposed to be in a fixed location and permanantly attached so if you follow the rules (which I did), you can't move the blinder out of the way when driving around the pits. I'm not in any way saying that is a logical rule but it is the one that is in the rulebook.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Bob Gullett

https://www.nhraracer.com/content/ge...715&zoneid=132
Are you kidding me? This is the reason for banning blinders? And hood scoop cars that drive around haven’t just about ran over or crashed into a few things because they can’t see a thing? Wow.

No kidding.


Why is anyone driving around with blinders in the pits in the first place?


And if they're that stupid, why are they allowed to participate to begin with?


And exactly WTF are they using for a blinder that blocks so much of their vision that they can't see obstacles and people in the pits?




Wow.

[Cotten]

It seems pretty simple. If it's a problem in the pits make a rule for a maximum size blinder. It must be retractable. You cannot pull it down until you enter the water box and you must push it back up after you exit track.

The shielding on the helmet and visor should probably go away, and I do it.

The hypocrisy is if it's a considered a on track problem why will comp still be allowed?

Mike

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Cotten

The hypocrisy is if it's a considered a on track problem why will comp still be allowed?

Mike

When is the last time that you saw a Comp car being driven back through the pits?

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by Cotten

It seems pretty simple. If it's a problem in the pits make a rule for a maximum size blinder. It must be retractable. You cannot pull it down until you enter the water box and you must push it back up after you exit track.

The shielding on the helmet and visor should probably go away, and I do it.

The hypocrisy is if it's a considered a on track problem why will comp still be allowed?

Mike

Read section 7.8, as the rules were written, the blinder is required to be permanantly attached so it's going to be wherever it is whether you are driving down the track or driving through the pits. I'd be more than happy to have a rule that says the blinder needs to be hinged or removable and needs to be removed as soon as you enter the return road but that is not the way the rules were written. The max size in the rulebook is 4" x 8" (so 32 sq inches) which seems crazy big to me but that's what's in the rulebook. I've seen people far excede that size but that's another matter. What I proposed to NHRA was that the max size be reduced to 12 sq inch max and/or it needs to be removed as soon as you leave the track and can't be reinstalled until you are back in the staging lanes.

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by Cotten

It seems pretty simple. If it's a problem in the pits make a rule for a maximum size blinder. It must be retractable. You cannot pull it down until you enter the water box and you must push it back up after you exit track.

The shielding on the helmet and visor should probably go away, and I do it.

The hypocrisy is if it's a considered a on track problem why will comp still be allowed?

Mike

Here's another problem in regard to the new rule. You can use an OEM sun visor but as most cars have a roll cage, that pretty much makes it impossible to either install at all and/or can't be raise and lowered. Based on that, if you want to utilize it as a makeshift blinder and the cage is in the way of raising and lowering it, it's going to stay in the down position. In my case, instead of the 8 sq inches of blinder that I currently have, I'm going to have a much larger OEM sun visor in my line of vision that I can't flip up. I'm still trying to figure out why it is that Stock and SS have been singled out as the maniacs mowing people down in the pits?