maybe we should ask PJ to get a petition going....

John your Avitar says it all!

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Not only do the Pro cars use it as Doc said. Sportmen racers also use Icard. In Super classes its great. Many top teams use a GREAT program called "Crew Chief Pro". Icard is used in the program to track class performance and input the data from the run into the program.

We also keep the Icard up on the computer to keep track of how the pros are doing while we service the race car. Its nice.

I was told that the tech. is in place to issue a code # to access the Icard data based on paying a fee. I hope it dosent come to that. We'll see next week I guess??????

I bought an Gameboy advance plus an I-card Pro as soon as NHRA announced they were available in '04-'05?. That Gameboy got stolen or lost at Chi-town last year, I found a replacement around Dallas but the Type-face of the Gameboy was like Italics, very strange!

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I was pretty upset about it not being at Pomona. Its really makes pro stock fun to watch. You get to see the reaction times which they dont always announce. And its cool to see how everyones 60' times match up.
NHRA screws up again. I wish they would give discounts for all their errors.

Leave it to NHRA to screw up a good thing. Heck, this should almost be mandatory at the national events.

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Buell's and Hardley's suck!

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I hope they get the situation figured out. We run the gameboy and the USB version with Crew Chief Pro . . . however I often just export the information to Excel for some interesting analysis. You can built a significant history of timeslips for a broad spectrum of cars in a very short period of time. I wish they'd throw the information up as a national database . . . I could waste tons of time bench racing with that!

From a spectator standpoint I occasionally get frustrated by the short amount of time they leave the latest "timesheet" up on the gameboy. Typically more of a problem at local tracks. But I found out that this is controlled in the tower, and typically a polite complaint or two can get the screen hold time extended enough to show your spouse/friends before the screen blanks for the next race.

Jeff, to lock in a screen hold the Select button down. It will hold on whatever's on till you let go.

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Thanks for the tip Joe. A buddy of mine of who is a statistic/gadget freak picked up an Icard last year after getting hooked on mine. He's gonna be ticked off {me too} if he doesn't get to use it in St. Louis!

I wouldn't blame this one on NHRA without knowing all the facts.....

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Thanks Joe! I never give those gadgets enough attention to figure the tricks out.

I'm certainly not blaming NHRA for THIS one!

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They're still showing it as compatible with NHRA races on their website. Hope it stays that way. Not blaming anyone or pointing fingers, I just want mine to work!

they haven't updated their web page in 2 years.