coyotedale
Nitro Member
Little known story that happend on Sat, after the first round of FC qualifying, the Richards/Smith Tire Kingdom car comes back, the motor is serviced, they are about ready to fire and do the warm up, when up comes Dan Olsen and another from NHRA tech.
Sorry Paul, we cannot let you run the car like that, the upgrades are not correct.
Now for the uniformed, the upgrades were performed, and inspected prior to the race and given the OK,,, the car goes through tech, still OK, the car makes the first run, all ok,,,, then just before it's time to warm up, the car is not legal and will not be allowed to run.
The call goes out to Murf and then the thrash begins to cut our bars and reweld sections that have already been welded on,,, to make the car safer mind you.
Oh, they did make it back in time, but didn't get to perform a warm up and seat the clutch,,, so Mike goes out about 200 ft and rattles the tires.
The ESPN crew was there covering this story, but as per the usual, it didn't get aired.
Sorry Paul, we cannot let you run the car like that, the upgrades are not correct.
Now for the uniformed, the upgrades were performed, and inspected prior to the race and given the OK,,, the car goes through tech, still OK, the car makes the first run, all ok,,,, then just before it's time to warm up, the car is not legal and will not be allowed to run.
The call goes out to Murf and then the thrash begins to cut our bars and reweld sections that have already been welded on,,, to make the car safer mind you.
Oh, they did make it back in time, but didn't get to perform a warm up and seat the clutch,,, so Mike goes out about 200 ft and rattles the tires.
The ESPN crew was there covering this story, but as per the usual, it didn't get aired.