Thers been a lot talk about people breaking the rules...

IMO the tech guys need to enforce ALL the cars that enter.
If the cars are not up to spec then they dont race...
If you run into the nines for the first time during an event and dont have all the certs then your out...Things like that

This will fix all the BS....And everyone will be on the same level

Sorry if i pissed some people off......My Father races Top Sportsman and i attend all the events and thers never a ??? thats someone is cheating....or at least its not obiouvs

 

i agree with everything except licensing...its just not necessary to enforce it but i know there will be no end to it. i would have no problem with licensing if it wasnt so unnecessarily hard and expensive to attain.

also....enforcing rules is a lot easier when there is 80 cars fighting for 16 spots rather than 17 or 18 because you could end up with a 7 car field and no one wants to see that.

 

Well, when you say people breaking rules, it's not necessarily the safety or Nhra track rules that are being broken. It's the class rules that specify what car's can have or not have, weight, what's cut out etc.... And the big problem with this is, alot of times, the guys tech'n the cars in aren't from that specific race series but rather the nhra techs at the track. Those nhra techs are not going to know what's supposed to be on your true street, outlaw, street comp car and the list goes on.

Also, to the OP, I do see alot of videos online and on here being posted of car's running 135+ or deep 10's with no cages or safety equipment and that is shocking. Up here, our track tech's will not hesitate to ask you to leave after running 11.49 or quicker with no cage per nhra rules.

 

i could go run 9's at my local track and they only bitch about a helmet.

 

man, that would never happen here. And it sucks cuz our car's trap 135 without even trying. I know safety equipment is important and theres no price on safety, but after the cage cert, suit, membership fee-license, man you're into it pretty good, just to be "legal."

But like they say, no one ever said racing was cheap.

 

and it sucks when you spend that money to be legit and the guy next to you runs with out it.

 

if i wanted to drive out further if i was running consistent 9's and needed to to go an event that i knew would require a license, i would get one. Its ridiculous that you have to join and be a member of an organization that you have no part of other than racing at one of their facilities because they ditched us in the first place. i think it was $170 for 2 years? Plus license fee.

 

X2

 

X2, not over here at VA Motorsports Park, either. They will boot you out in a heartbeat.

 

You may want to consider racing at a non-NHRA track if you dont want to follow the rules. The NHRA competition license isn't all about money, its more safety than anything. They make sure you know how to follow the rules, as well as have a current medical examination to make sure that you aren't going to have a heart attack and smash into the guy next to you at 135+ mph. The licensing process also makes sure you can get out of your car quickly in case of an accident. Safety 1st, speed 2nd.

You think that's outrageous, go get arrested for doing 135+ in your car on the streets, and then come back and tell us which is more expensive.

 

ok i need a license to run 9.99 but not 10.0, come one now. You can't tell me that a LICENSE means you know how to drive a fast car.

Its about money clean and simple, if it was about safety, it wouldnt be so hard to get. Safety should be an EASY thing to take care of. There is no fab work involved in a license, there is no research and development, theres also not any labor into it. Just the damn hassle of finding licensed drivers that WILL show up to sign off for you which is damn near impossible around my area unless i just hit up people i don't know and ask them to come. You don't need all of that to prove to others that you know how to follow the rules and drive your car. We all take a drivers test and examination for our 10$ license to drive with 1000 others along side us on the interstates and hardly ANYONE can follow those rules and DRIVE SAFELY EVEN AT 60 MPH LOL!!

 

How is it hard to attain a license or expensive? Someone built a 9 second car but can't do a few passes and get a physical? lol

It's not that it's hard, it's that people are lazy. There has to be a cut off somewhere, if it was at 9.49 people would have the same argument as at 8.99 or 9.99.

You don't like paying more taxes when you bump into the next tax bracket right? But if they raised it, but the next year you still bumped JUST over it...you'd still be pissed eh?

 

ehh, everyone has their opinion. Paying 500$ for a part on your car that you can race with basically all year at events you typically go to without a license is different from shelling out another 500$ for a license you might have to actually SHOW twice a year at an event. I love when people use the phrase "youve got this and that in your car, whats another grand?"....like i dropped 20,000$ in 1 day on my race car or something. Justification is the key here, not really the price. I'll get one if i want to go to races that i think will need one. I'm just saying that the process is a fail. A physical to race a car? Really?

I can justify an expensive part that will enhance performance all year long vs one "mod" that will only help once maybe twice a year.

You're view is from someone that has to deal with it just to test n tune in your area. I explained earlier how its hard to get a license

Step 1 Give money to someone who doesn't care about you for a membership you'll never use.
Step 2 phyiscal
Step 3 find non existent 9 sec licensees and hope they will take time from their busy lives to help someone they don't know
Step 4 make appointment at track 3 hours away
Step 5 make passes
Step 6 wait for license