Sounds Fair To Me... ?????

[jpee]

NHRA wouldn't load the review board to make it "one sided" would they?


" THE REVIEW PANEL
Written by Competition Plus
Friday, 01 August 2008

CompetitionPlus.com has requested a list of the names from the NHRA Review Panel who upheld the $100,000 fine levied Don Schumacher Racing for a nitromethane infraction. The NHRA has yet to respond. What CompetitionPlus.com has learned is this impartial committee was comprised of an NHRA divisional director, a manager of an NHRA-owned drag strip and an employee who works out of the Glendora, Ca., office."

 

[clwill]

The rule book specifically calls out the procedure, and this first review panel is defined by the rules to be NHRA employees (a "standing review committee"). It is the "final appeal panel" that is defined to be more objective, with one NHRA employee and two impartial others. The appellant (DSR) can object to the makeup of that panel.

It frankly doesn't matter who was on the first panel, its result was almost a foregone conclusion. The *final appeal* panel is the one that matters.