Gov. Cup Good Show!!!!!

[Denman]

All results are now posted on the NSS webpage. Thanks NSS for the postings, I for one truly appreciate the news, especially after a great three nights of racing at your track. Looking forward to Tbara Sprints plus the other divisions on the 23rd. Keep up the good work !!!

[Osmosis Jones]

Really?....

Strange how one team car can be disqualified (Moore #13m) and the other car (#13 Terry passes.)


Did you think the cars and drivers were identical twins? He got DQ'd for being 16 pounds light. That could probably just be the $$$ in the bossmans back pocket....hmmmm.....maybe the cars WERE identical.....lol

I was hoping that was a typo from you, Denman. Usually your observations are a little sharper than that, man.


OJ

[Frasson118]

Strange things do happen like that:

A few years ago, Brian Finney started the race, but switched at the break and put Scofield in the car for the final 100 laps.... but came up light. The difference in drivers weight showed up at the scales at the end. Thus.... DQ'ed for the night.

Another time, Shannon Babb won the World 100 after an engine change in between the heats and feature. The car scaled OK originally, but they found out later that the engine itself, was something like 7 pounds lighter than the one they replaced. It was something like a $50,000 mistake.

I know rules are rules, but sometimes an innocent mistake like a few unintentional pounds, or a percent or two of offset, can cause major problems in the tech line. I just don't buy the story that the cars run THAT much better because of it.

If weight was THAT critical, Danica would win every week, and Jimmy Spencer would have never gotten out of Street Stocks....

[Osmosis Jones]

Well then......

You really need to get out of the bleachers and into a racing seat more often, my friend.

Weight and it's placement is EVERYTHING.

And that 16 pounds that he came up light at the end of the race mathematically changes into a whole lot more if you're talking about fuel being spent on a longer race and the affect (of losing that weight from the rear of the chassis caused) on the rest of your setup. Ask one of those NASCAR poindexter-looking, college bred-engineer crew chiefs what an unaccounted for 16 lbs would do to his perfect little storm. His head would probably explode. That or his laptop.

They call boxing the "Sweet Science".

Racing kicks boxing in the teeth in the science department. Even at your local short tracks.


But even with that said...a line has to be drawn somewhere. Everybody wants good consistent tech until it gets around to biting them. Then its "Oh, what do a few millimeters off the head help. We were just cleaning it up a little"....or...."That's the carburetor that came with my motor when I bought it"....or the best one...."We were right by the scales at our shop!"....buncha flippin' crybabies.

I applaud a track and tech men like Ricky Brooks who write their rulebooks with permanent markers and don't bend and waffle when Daddy Warbucks threatens to boycott their track because their Weebalo aged kid's SUPER DOOPER Late Model got found with traction control because he hasn't had time to learn what "feathering a throttle off the corner" means because it's not an option on their Xbox.

What was I saying?......

Oh yeah. I was bitching about whiny racers in the tech area. (And the grandstand...lol)

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Black and white. Right or wrong. Potato/patahtoh......

Rules have their place in racing. Just think, if there weren't any rules to break (or abide by for you angels out there) we wouldn't have any cheaters, would we?

OJski

[ocalasp76]

Half way miss judgement??

That 16 lbs. or so translates to about 2 gallons of fuel. If at the half way mark for fuel they decided not to 'fill' the tank, then they shorted themselves on 'weight' at the end.
Just sayin'..
-JIM-