NHRA has an opportunity (3 Viewers)

[mick]

if you know your gonna' blow up, regardless of any combination changes, why not up the nitro % back to at least 95
to improve the show? make em' cackle a little more again.

 

[ch streetcars]

Alan, Tony S, Kyle : If you were speaking for PRO or even if you ran NHRA: care to throw out any ideas that would lessen the explosions, lower the cost for teams , and improve the show for fans of the nitro cars ? It appears to a lot of us that they are headed towards near extinction at 340 mph with no chutes.

 

[Nunz]

Alan, Tony S, Kyle : If you were speaking for PRO or even if you ran NHRA: care to throw out any ideas that would lessen the explosions, lower the cost for teams , and improve the show for fans of the nitro cars ? It appears to a lot of us that they are headed towards near extinction at 340 mph with no chutes.

Near extinction?

 

[ch streetcars]

Sorry, there will always be those that find a way to run a fueler, I should not exaggerate. But we do seem to be losing more teams than we are gaining. Everyone here loves this sport and we want it to continue for many years, if something can be done to lessen the costs, hopefully those changes will be implemented soon.

 

[Nunz]

Sorry, there will always be those that find a way to run a fueler, I should not exaggerate. But we do seem to be losing more teams than we are gaining. Everyone here loves this sport and we want it to continue for many years, if something can be done to lessen the costs, hopefully those changes will be implemented soon.

You may have exaggerated, LOL, but it's certainly true that NHRA needs to address the issues plaguing the fuel classes.

 

[Butch]

I'm the Drag boat world, TFH has basically priced it's self out of business. Cost of running versus payback is comparable to $0.

 

[Mike]

Years ago, The Simpsons had an episode about Ned Flanders backstory. He was a little terror and his hippie parents went to see a child psychologist about his behavior, telling the dr. "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."

I don't want NHRA to turn into Ned Flanders parents.

 

[mgty3whlr]

I'm the Drag boat world, TFH has basically priced it's self out of business. Cost of running versus payback is comparable to $0.

Well we will see now that Darryl Cutler is involved. I believe you're gonna see some nice payouts.

 

[Litefoot]

Alan, Tony S, Kyle : If you were speaking for PRO or even if you ran NHRA: care to throw out any ideas that would lessen the explosions, lower the cost for teams , and improve the show for fans of the nitro cars ? It appears to a lot of us that they are headed towards near extinction at 340 mph with no chutes.

A wise man recently told me if you back off the glue, the tuners wouldn’t be able to throw everything at the parts limit, parts would last longer, lower funded teams would be more competitive, yes it would take a little time for them to get used to, slowly bring down the stick to a point over time, how far to take it needs be found by NHRA and PRO, just my thoughts from things I’ve heard

 

[Nunz]

A wise man recently told me if you back off the glue, the tuners wouldn’t be able to throw everything at the parts limit, parts would last longer, lower funded teams would be more competitive, yes it would take a little time for them to get used to, slowly bring down the stick to a point over time, how far to take it needs be found by NHRA and PRO, just my thoughts from things I’ve heard

I thought they tried that a few years ago.

 

[Litefoot]

I thought they tried that a few years ago.

I remember that too, I think it should be revisited now more than ever, put the tuner in play with the driver and take away the advantage of the money teams that can throw complete new motors in every round

 

[Jim]

I know that people are going to roast me for this, but what would happen if NHRA went to 8-car fields for Top Fuel and Funny Car. Two qualifying rounds on Saturday, three elimination rounds on Sunday.

 

[Rocket Man]

They would have to change their name to NIHRA

 

[Burnnitro1320]

There would be about 12 non qualifiers at the next event in funny car? Why would cutting the fields in half raise car counts, just cuz it would look better on paper? Isn't that the general goal right now? Look at how many cars show up in the alcohol categories for some 8car regional events.

 

[ironpony]

A wise man recently told me if you back off the glue, the tuners wouldn’t be able to throw everything at the parts limit, parts would last longer, lower funded teams would be more competitive, yes it would take a little time for them to get used to, slowly bring down the stick to a point over time, how far to take it needs be found by NHRA and PRO, just my thoughts from things I’ve heard

I thought they tried that a few years ago.

Keep the glue take some angle out of the wings. They need the glue to get going but if they take out wing they will have to slow down clutch lock up. Lower the RPM limit so they have to slow down everything so they do not hit the limiter before the finish line too early and it will lower the MPH.

 

[Nunz]

I know that people are going to roast me for this, but what would happen if NHRA went to 8-car fields for Top Fuel and Funny Car. Two qualifying rounds on Saturday, three elimination rounds on Sunday.

IMO cutting the size of the fields is NOT the way to grow participation. And remember, while we've had some short fields in TF this year, we've gone through periods like this before, decades ago in fact.

 

[none]

It seems to me that most of the big explosions are not cars stuck to the track, they are cars starting to spin that drop a cylinder (or more) and hydraulic the motor. Making the track less sticky previously just led to more tire spin and dropped cylinders.

 

[Litefoot]

It seems to me that most of the big explosions are not cars stuck to the track, they are cars starting to spin that drop a cylinder (or more) and hydraulic the motor. Making the track less sticky previously just led to more tire spin and dropped cylinders.

My thoughts are if you cannot throw all the horsepower you can make at super glued tracks, when the cars lose traction that the motors will better handle damage if there not on razers edge of parts limits, sure you are going to have all the same tire smoking when set up is missed, that’s where the crew chief and driver comes in, that to me is where not having the money to have a 100 % fresh motor every round will help lower funded teams be competitive when you can’t use all the power, the motors will live longer in all situations

 

[mick]

watched the video by the 'angry hornet' yesterday, it was a brief recap from texas. he explains and shows how they pushed a head gasket out
in Q1 i think, then blackened main bearings in another Q run, then inevitably qualified in bottom of field and lost to brit in E1 due to tire smoke.
he then commented, 'we had the same bullet in there all weekend, so that's a good thing' ...... i started wondering what rick ware was thinking between
the two teams for the weekend. he was probably ecstatic that one of the teams did not grenade an engine. an E1 loser with the same bullet turned into
a real winner financially for rwr.

 

[ironpony]

one block per weekend period, one blower per weekend if replaced during qualifying lose 5 positions if during eliminations points penalty.