Tony sounded like a little spoiled brat on National TV. I was embarassed for the sport to have the current Champion up there dis-respecting his competiton like that.Tony got away with one at last years finals, he has no room to *****!

Man - some of you people REALLY live in the past tooooooo long.
I bet your personal lives are horrible if you treat them the same way - hopefully you just live vicariously through the internet that way though.

Otherwise - I say - spend the money to put in 2 sets of scales at the NHRA ran events, and weigh them all after every run. Modify the system like it works for the truckers that weigh on the interstate. It takes them rolling over the scales and never even stopping.

Money? Yupper - but hey - doesn't HDP have that?

Even if someone is testing - they shouldn't have reason to test underweight, they aren't going to run underweight, right?

DLB

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Proverbs 17:27 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. 28 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Tony didn't get away with squat last year, people need to quit crying over it. And 2 wrongs don't make a right.

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Buell's and Hardley's suck!

You know damn well he got away with one. If Buster would have been replaced with another Buster, Tony would have been sent packing for not obeying the Chief Starter..............Rick Stewart was a joke................ yeah, he got a free pass.

You are exactly right about this Brent, 2 wrongs don't make a right. If indeed it is a fact that Cory only got a warning when he went by the scales, there is a double standard playing out in the enforcement of the rules. Rules are rules, they should all be enforced to the rule or changed. However, with that being said, Tony still should have kept composure of his self on national TV.

To clear up any confusion on this topic the NHRA has stated that the winner of round one must weigh at the scales after the round. Round two the crew chief must promise they are still legal. Round three the crew chief and two team members must state they cross their hearts and hope to die if they are not legal. A finals win requires the owner of the team to swear on his mothers life they are legal. This should clear up any confusion.

Ohhhhhhh!!!!

Kind of like when an owner swears that there will be no team orders...

The POWERS that be in Glendora have sure messed this one up.

DLB

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Proverbs 17:27 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. 28 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

WOW. I just watched the 1320 coverage.

Well NHRA has dug themselves another hole if it is true Cmac got off with a warning. What is good for one has to be good for all. I think we have all known for awhile that NHRA has always had 1 set of unwritten rules for everything so this should come as no surprise.

As far as Shoe's tantrem...the comment about Troxel...while I am sure it was made in haste...not a good thing to say. But I do agree with pretty much everything else he said. I am sure more good will come than bad of this...sometimes ya gotta call the man on the carpet for the good of everyone.

I was under the impression everyone had to go through a weight and fuel check.

One other thing (while I am still honestly stunned at the amount that people can't let last years "Schumacher fiasco" go)...

You all do realize that it was irrelevant to him winning the race and the championship, etc., right - it was a qualifying pass and he smoked the tires at the hit.

If you want to stay PO'ed about it...get mad at the NHRA for not taking the action they said they would - or the crew chief that you all wish was tuning your favorite driver!

Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals: U.S. Army Dragster

In other words (for the nth time), get over it.

DLB

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Proverbs 17:27 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. 28 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

cry me a freakin river, shoe. you've been putting down other teams for years now. it's getting old. get some class.

I do have to say it is pretty pathetic how you all are crying about last year...especially since that run really didnt amount to anything but if it were any other driver, I can gurantee alot of your thoughts would change.

I posted the actual rule a couple pages back and it sounds like to me NHRA and everyone else should just throw the damn rulebook away..its not followed anyway. I guess we already put up with enough drama with the countdown..why not make up the rules as we go?

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You are exactly right what happened in the past is exactly that, water under the bridge.

With that said, then you should find it just as pathetic how Tony is crying about something that happened in the past.....................Cory should have never been brought into the conversation, that was also in the past.


Face it, they drove past the scales, they screwed up, simple as that. He should have been a man, take his medicine and get on with life, don't point fingers and try to pass blame on others, don't try and point out flaws in others, and especially don't talk trash about your competitors.

In Stock/Superstock, we were always told that if you win, you weigh and get your fuel checked. If you lose, you wait until the winner get fuel and weight checked. If the winner fails, you make sure you get checked so you could get the round win, if he/she doesn't fail, time to go home. If you don't stop at the scales and the winner fails, whoever was suppose to face the winner has a bye next round.

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That's an excellent rule, should be written in stone for all cl***es.

What a lot of people fail to understand is:
IT HAD NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, TO DO WITH THE COUNTDOWN.

And, if it did, he shouldn't be complaining, because HE got the most welfare points of anyone in TF.

So, when he says NHRA can pick and choose their Countdown winner, did he mean himself?

He showed just how little cl*** he has when he through Mel and Cory Mac under the bus. Uncalled for from a "professional".

I am not necessarily a Shumacher fan, I like all the racers. So I was pulling
for my friend David Baca's partner in this one.... However the scale crew has
been inconsistent. They do not stop all of them. The one thing that Tony's
crew did wrong was not at least make contact with the one person that was
in the scale house before taking off. Otherwise I don't blame them for being
mad as hell!
BK