Justin@NRE
Nitro Member
Yeah, it sucks for the racer in this case, thinking its better and then winding up in the sand anyway, just to get DQ'd on your bye to the finals. Like getting lemon juice shot into your eye and kicked in the nuts. I feel for the guy in that sense... BUT, if there is any question as to the safety of your car, in this case, roll up, take the green, shut it off and go fix it for the final. I understand as much as anybody wanting to get data for the next lap, but something like brakes acting strange right before you run, I think some better decision making should have prevailed. You wouldn't send it down the track with low or no oil pressure would you? Or with an obvious bad vibration in the motor(I know a guy who thought it might clean up when he let the clutch out... Made a big mess of aluminum)? People take cars to the line unprepared all the time, but only with the anticipation of just taking the green in case the other guy doesn't show, red lights or crosses the center line.
As for how Dim arrives at his decision, he probably heard all he needed from his starting line crew and made the call. As for having brake pressure while staged after pumping the brakes, I don't know that it would even change his decision in this case. I'm not the world's biggest fan of Dim in the least, but I know it wouldn't change my mind either. It's not like you're pumping up a line lock, you have one set of brakes on your car and you had to do something out of the ordinary to them to even get them to work properly, yet you ran full bore anyway. He should be thankful he only got the run DQ'd at this point and not a suspended license for not exercising good judgement. Nobody goes up there with the intention of wrecking their shit or risking any more than they have to on a normal lap, but I'd question the racer's thought process in this case too. I hate it for the racer, but I actually agree there should be some accountability for the judgement exercised here.
As for how Dim arrives at his decision, he probably heard all he needed from his starting line crew and made the call. As for having brake pressure while staged after pumping the brakes, I don't know that it would even change his decision in this case. I'm not the world's biggest fan of Dim in the least, but I know it wouldn't change my mind either. It's not like you're pumping up a line lock, you have one set of brakes on your car and you had to do something out of the ordinary to them to even get them to work properly, yet you ran full bore anyway. He should be thankful he only got the run DQ'd at this point and not a suspended license for not exercising good judgement. Nobody goes up there with the intention of wrecking their shit or risking any more than they have to on a normal lap, but I'd question the racer's thought process in this case too. I hate it for the racer, but I actually agree there should be some accountability for the judgement exercised here.
