Noise, Teri...

I stood freezin' my butt off for the hero runs Friday night at Richmond and watched as several teams pulled out of line... was I happy? Nope. Was it the track? Could be... but,

Over the three day weekend, I spent more time watching that tractor, The S/S trucks and Super-vac run than all racing total... got to the point I was praying for a clean run... But, I put up with it... maybe I'm weird, I'm sure not the casual fan, if I was, I would have left and never came back...

Could all the oil downs have anything to do with the 'governor' dropping cylinders at a certain RPM, makes sense to me, slow the cars down by making them mis-fire...

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Joe, I didn't just walk out of some cotton field and become a drag racing fan. I've seen my share of bad oil downs and many were from well funded teams.

Oil downs don't typically bother me much. Nitro drag racing is an extreme sport and **** happens.

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If you think oil downs are bad , here in wanganui new zealand there is an anual hydroplane time trial race on the wanganui river once a year . I go to watch it every year and sometimes you have to wait 2-3+ hours before a boat goes in the water because of something more dangerous then oil ....logs.
At the end of the day in any motorsport there are things that can postpone and halt races and its just the way it is , its allways worth the wait though.

Well **** then, I guess I'm in the Minority who thinks oildowns are Killing this sport. Like Karl said, us Diehards we just Bite our tongue and Bear these delays. But I often wonder how many first timers never come back for that very reason. This ****'s turning into a pissing contest, I'm done!

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Joe, I don't think oil downs are killing the sport but there not good for the sport either. Joe, There's a lot less oil downs then there use to be . But who could forget that long oil down by a well funded team at Indy. Joe, I think NHRA is handling it the best they can .

Tony, is it the bloody MSD box that killing the motors? Purposely mis-fireing a motor can't be good for it...

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