Team Arana Fires One Across The Harley Bow

[TooTall999]

Just a curious question here, but what I want to know is this....

Why can't other teams buy and race a V-rod? Is it because V-H refuses to let other competitors have one, or is V-H told by Harley-Davision they can't give them to other teams?

Nobody else can buy the V-rod. Ask George Bryce, he's tried.

 

[Rat]

One year, with Capps pulling away with the championship, NHRA changed the "oil down rule" to include a loss of 10 points. He supposedly dumped oil at Reading and got penalized the 10 points.....I believe they lost the championship by under 10 points.

NHRA added the "little points" for qualifying, as the countdown started...

Schumacher is told to shutoff by the starter on a run they needed to make for the title....they ignored Stewart and made the run...NHRA should have thrown it out, or bounced them for violating a safety rule. But they just fine DSR 20k.

So NHRA has a track record of making rules adjustments on the fly and even during the playoffs.

Now there's a conspiracy I never heard!

 

[john]

Nah, the Four Valve is OHC.

Yes, with pushrods.

 

[Sean D, shondoo]

There are only 2 possible outcomes:

1. NHRA needs to allow the new suzuki motor and add/sub weight to the harley's based on what happens.

An even better solution:

2. Make the harley's go back to the 2 valve pushrod motor.

Or.............

3.) You allow others to run the combination. That will expose just how heavy the sandbags are.

Sean D

 

[Rajunz]

Or.............

3.) You allow others to run the combination. That will expose just how heavy the sandbags are.

Sean D

Great post. If other teams were allowed to run the V Rods, there would be no controversy.

But it looks like that is never going to happen.

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag...-nhras-decision-has-psm-in-a-no-win-situation

Persoanally, I think that NHRA should have sent HD down the road. They couldn't even qualify for an event before buying their way in to the sport.

 

[Bullard Anderson]

I do know that the rules may not be where many people want them to be, but this factory sparring is just what NASCAR hasn't had in 10 years. If only the masses cared about PSB. Wish they did. This is good stuff.

 

[.]

Yes, with pushrods.

You sure about that? George Bryce says they don't and he should know.

 

[mick]

14 entered for BIR, PSB usually into 20's at this event.
a short field?, time will tell......
sonoma had 19 / denver had 20

 

[Sandman]

I guess it's just a product of my age, but I remember when Pro/Stock bikes (and cars for that matter) were actually built using at least some stock parts as recently as the '80's in PSB. Today's racing has absolutely nothing in common with their showroom counterparts. If you think I'm wrong, ask how many H-D owners would be willing to run their stock V-Rod against a stock Hyabusa. Yet with NHRA's ass-kissing of H-D the average H-D guy is lead to believe any H-D is faster than anything else.

 

[sammi]

....Until the traffic light goes green against any Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki or Triumph 600, then reality sets in.

It is sad that there are no students of racing history (other than Burgess) on Financial Way. Remember win on Sunday, buy on Monday? A Pro Stock class on 600's that look like showroom bikes, with MINIMAL mods, would be outrageously popular amongst the bike crowd. Instead of Harley supporting the NHRA and running their phony baloney Hines-rods, how about the NASCAR scenario where several manufacturers support the series because they actually have a dog in the hunt.

The series is dying and the life support seems to be the have-nots doing silly and sophomorish stunts.

Hey Harley, what kind of ROI are you going to get when only 11 bikes show up to run?

Maybe it would make more sense if Haas or Mazak sponsored the series.