What are the policies at the tracks you guys race at?
I usually race at Osceola Dragway(IHRA),and through the last few years,they always gave back your tech card and wrote car and driver on it for re-entry.
Last Sunday my wife and I were both racing,and after several "mishaps" at the track,we got rained-out after first round.We both had won our first rounds,and the tech cards came back with "car only" written on them.
Seems stupid to me that a car can be entered but I have to pay to get the driver back in to race.