Petition

[yoda]

Can there be a rule that you have to have at least one year of following drag racing FOR REAL before you should be able to publicly comment on rules and safety ANYWHERE? Geezus H Christmas.. its like NASCAR out there all of a sudden, with everyone that thinks some driver is "hot" or "that their heart hurts when my favorite driver doesn't win" can comment on a piece of safety gear that they couldn't pick out of a lineup of 3 items....
F^@%in poser noobs are making discussing this sport unbearable.....

Needed to vent- nothing to see here...

BTW- it's not anyone here that twisted my skivvies in a knot...

 

[Tim5636sc]

Can there be a rule that you have to have at least one year of following drag racing FOR REAL before you should be able to publicly comment on rules and safety ANYWHERE? =...

No, we need a rule stating you need to have either:

COMPETITION LICENSE
HAVE WORKED (physically) on a real racing team or in the motorsports industry for more than 5 years
HAVE been or are currently a certified race organization safety or tech official
HAVE half a brain

before commenting on rules and safety about drag racing....

as far as the commenting on the drivers or crew members being hot, or who they are married too or dating... sorry... that's been the mantra around here for a while now...

 

[PJ]

Hmmm can we apply this standard to those that make the rules too


Sorry couldn't resist, it was comedy gold

 

[Tim5636sc]

Hmmm can we apply this standard to those that make the rules too


Sorry couldn't resist, it was comedy gold

not really comedy "Gold"......but nice try PJ

 

[PJ]

true enough but its not like I could advertise it as less then that

 

[Nick Name]

All "fan" boards are like that.

 

[Dave]

Hmmm can we apply this standard to those that make the rules too


Sorry couldn't resist, it was comedy gold

Oh God, PJ. That is just awesome. Hell, it gave me a good laugh.

Dave

 

[yoda]

All "fan" boards are like that.

Too bad this was caused by a face-to-face encounter... Barbi was about the biggest fan of this driver you could encounter, but wouldn't know which direction a sparkplug would screw in, but because she knew all there is to know about her guy, she felt it made her an expert to discuss things about the sport based on whatever he had on his blog page....

 

[jackass]

Tim.. ya had me till the half a brain part......lol

substatute half a brain for common sense....might work better......



Billy

 

[Rollout96]

HAVE half a brain

Dammit!!!!!!!!!

I'll just go check the other threads!!

 

[Pete]

Too bad this was caused by a face-to-face encounter... Barbi was about the biggest fan of this driver you could encounter, but wouldn't know which direction a sparkplug would screw in, but because she knew all there is to know about her guy, she felt it made her an expert to discuss things about the sport based on whatever he had on his blog page....

You had me with the first post...what the heck are you talking about Martin?

 

[mick]

*$^@*( poser noobs making uniformed statements about nhra drag racing!?

possible fan base growth martin
teach them well as you know you can.

 

[yoda]

You had me with the first post...what the heck are you talking about Martin?

Just what I'm btchin about Pete... Remember the days when you knew someone actually knew something about racing because they had an NASCAR decal on their car or a race team shirt or jacket on? Then, all of a sudden, every hockey mom in WallyWorld could tell you every minor thing about Jeff Gordon, but was clueless about RACING?

Well, we're there with the digs now.... You're dead on Mike- Fcukin "fan" growth with nobody out there to really educate (or probably the fact that the noobs just dont give a fu.....).

Nothing pleases me more than to talk about the history, technology, politics and excitement of drag racing. WITH REAL FANS and participants like PF, Reinhart, Timmah, etc. And I'm not talking about kids being clueless (oddly enough, they have a strong clue)... I'm tired of encountering the backlash of the sanctioning body's expanded marketing technique of putting asses in the seats with people whose interest in the sport ends with "this or that driver is so cute- I wish he was single... Oh, and by the way, I'm glad that NHRA made them race a shorter distance because I don't want them to die- he's so handsome!!".... (Insert vomitting smiley here....)

Educating this level of yogurt brains is exasperating....

...Turning into the cranky old race guy that I thought wasn't going to hit until my 70's.....

 

[Pete]

Just what I'm btchin about Pete... Remember the days when you knew someone actually knew something about racing because they had an NASCAR decal on their car or a race team shirt or jacket on? Then, all of a sudden, every hockey mom in WallyWorld could tell you every minor thing about Jeff Gordon, but was clueless about RACING?

Well, we're there with the digs now.... You're dead on Mike- Fcukin "fan" growth with nobody out there to really educate (or probably the fact that the noobs just dont give a fu.....).

Nothing pleases me more than to talk about the history, technology, politics and excitement of drag racing. WITH REAL FANS and participants like PF, Reinhart, Timmah, etc. And I'm not talking about kids being clueless (oddly enough, they have a strong clue)... I'm tired of encountering the backlash of the sanctioning body's expanded marketing technique of putting asses in the seats with people whose interest in the sport ends with "this or that driver is so cute- I wish he was single... Oh, and by the way, I'm glad that NHRA made them race a shorter distance because I don't want them to die- he's so handsome!!".... (Insert vomitting smiley here....)

Educating this level of yogurt brains is exasperating....

...Turning into the cranky old race guy that I thought wasn't going to hit until my 70's.....

I understand what your saying Martin, but those days are long since gone. Think back to the broadcasts of Big Mac, Steve Evans, Brock Yates, with BIG DADDY as the roving pit reporter. They were always mechanical and taught the viewer a lot about the sport they were watching.
You will never see that on the national scale again, due to the marketing needed. The glitz and glamour of the "spectacle". I was at Virginia and was actually glad they skipped driver intro's and went right into racing! No glitz...just the meat.

One of the things I love doing is standing at the finishline fence, not for the thunder, but I enjoy reading the pipes and the orchestra of a fuel motor as it goes down the track. I stepped back in Virginia, took a swig of water and noticed something I had never noticed before, my 14 year old son had his eyes glues on the headers, and his lips were muttering something. It was at that point I realized, "he is ready"