Rickie Smith Rocks The House (1 Viewer)

[MHayes]

Let's take a look at that "decided advantage" the nitrous cars had the last 1/3 of 2013 and so far in 2014. Here's the facts. You make the call.

Indy Nats, 2013: #1 qualifier was Smith, by .02. A blower car won the race.
Carolina Nats, 2013: #1 qualifier was a blower car, #2 a nitrous car and the next 9 qualifiers were blower or turbo cars. 2 blower cars were in the final round.
Midwest Nats, 2013: 1 qualifier was Castellana. He also won the race, but with a 6.08/194, hardly an example of superior performance. The quicker-running blower car (throughout eliminations) in the other lane lost because he blew the tires off.
Toyota Nationals, 2013: The quickest nitrous qualifier was #7, down by .13 from the #1 qualifier, a blower car. A turbo and a blower car were in the final round.
Gainesville, 2014: A blower car qualified #1. Castellana did win the race.
Houston, 2014: Laurita, a nitrous car, qualified #1. A blower car won the race.
Atlanta, 2014: Rickie Smith pretty much dominated the event.

3 nitrous cars won races. 3 blower cars won races. One turbo car won a race. Since Indy 2013. Nitrous cars did qualify #1 50% of the time. So, what say you? Is the nitrous penalty fair?

Nice summary Carl, but did you take into account the reaction times? Let's look at the ETs on the various cars in isolation.

 

[twostep]

I did somewhat, but not extensively. Not the exact numbers, round by round. I did look to see if anyone won on a redlight (no), and whether or not the winners won on a holeshot. I saw a few holeshot round wins but none in any final rounds.

 

[yoda]

NHRA added 50lbs to the Nitrous cars after that performance.

As I said in another thread...

And, as it always is with NHRA, hard work is rewarded with...


Punishment.

Jeeez......

 

[FABMAN]

Glen Gray must have lost his thinking cap!

 

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Glen Gray must have lost his thinking cap!

Graham Light certainly didn't borrow it!

 

[Speed1288]

In addition to being offensive to the Christian participants of this forum, I'd be willing to bet big bucks that "Geezus" also finds the disrespectful use of His name to be offensive.

The Bible tells us that there will be eternal consequences to be paid by those that use His name in vain, so the next time you have the urge use Jesus's name in a disrespectful manner, you might want to give some thought to the price you'll be paying on judgement day for committing that type of sin.

Is this forreal?

 

[Terry]

Oh, yeah! Check back to page 1 to see some responses, Ken.