There is 1 thats ONE way to Skirt the Rule. If memory serves me right.. Lee Beard did it in TF. Have Front and Rear sections BOLT together. and replace what needs fixing. As long as the Drivers compartment remains. Since thats were the Cert. is located.

Food for thought. for the people who can't drop the idea that their favorite driver is out of a race. Because they had a parts failure or forgot where the chute lever was. Tony P. Put his car in the sand trap and fliped it, and it ran the next round.

That's funny, then how come the majority all sit in the PRO meeting and complain from time to time about the costs to run these cars?

If it's such a good idea to let the majority do whatever they want, then just lift all the rules and let 'em run 3.90's @ 380mph. Then they could throw tires off every round, blow engines out of the frame rails, bounce off the walls and destroy a race car per round. Don't complain in a couple years when only 8 nitro cars show up to race at Bristol.

You're relying on precedence. You're basically using "Because that's the way it's always been done" as a reason.

I have to wonder something. Let's say a team did have two cars that it alternatively ran in eliminations. That's assuming a tuner would even want two. Could a team operate with fewer crewmembers, since some of them could remain in the pits rebuilding one car while another is waiting in the lanes? The extra engine isn't going to cost anything, because a fueler's going to consume that and more in a season, anyways. Could the extra car be cheaper than a couple people on the payroll for a year? This might actually LOWER costs instead of increasing them.

Don't forget. Unless you destroy it, you can sell the car when you're done, so you're really renting it for the difference between what you pay for it and what you sell it for.

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Yeah and what about all the testing that will need to be done with the spare cars?

And who would want their used up junk anyways? These aren't super comp cars and the chances are if someone is going to go nitro racing, they are going to have new cars built for themselves.

If NHRA does something that you don't approve of, I'm sure you can find an old pic of a crying baby somewhere. Oh, wait. No, that's what you posted when I complained about something NHRA did.

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