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Just got back home after watching a full day of NHRA racing at Wildhorse. Beautiful day and lots of great racing and beautiful cars. A little disappointing to see many of the big boys coming in to today's qualifying in the top half of the field making half passes. Won't mention any names but his initials are John Force - and many others. I can understand the reasoning ($), but the fans come to see these guys make full passes down the track - every time they go down the track. I felt a little "short sheeted". I feel better now.

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Just got back home after watching a full day of NHRA racing at Wildhorse. Beautiful day and lots of great racing and beautiful cars. A little disappointing to see many of the big boys coming in to today's qualifying in the top half of the field making half passes. Won't mention any names but his initials are John Force - and many others. I can understand the reasoning ($), but the fans come to see these guys make full passes down the track - every time they go down the track. I felt a little "short sheeted". I feel better now.

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half passes?

like maybe they smoked the tires or rattled the tires....and at that point it is senseless to keep your foot in it cause it will blow up or crash...LOL

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I did see on the Bullet yesterday that people were accusing Force of making too many good runs this year and cheating again. Maybe John reads the Bullet too.

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I did see on the Bullet yesterday that people were accusing Force of making too many good runs this year and cheating again. Maybe John reads the Bullet too.

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anyone that is steadily outrunning the rest of the field is automatically cheating.....lol

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Nothing about cheating on this thread. Force made 2 qualifying passes on Friday - one was the 3.99 pas that qualified him @ # 1 at the time. Made 2 more passes on Saturday. Both were half passes, the last one near the end of session #4. I saw both those passes and I saw nothing wrong with ether pass. He just got out of the throttle. Same thing with Capps last pass of session #4. His 3rd pass ( early Sat afternoon ) was real strong and put him in the top 4 I think. Nothing wrong with his 4th pass that I could see. He just got out of the throttle. Maybe my eyes aren't as good as they used to be and they all had some kind of problem that I just didn't see - and they occurred after they were safely in the field. I guess I should give them the benefit of the doubt and say they were just pushing the track to see where the limits were. Pretty sure they didn't have any engine issues on those passes.

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I did see on the Bullet yesterday that people were accusing Force of making too many good runs this year and cheating again. Maybe John reads the Bullet too.

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anyone that is steadily outrunning the rest of the field is automatically cheating.....lol

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Nothing about cheating on this thread. Force made 2 qualifying passes on Friday - one was the 3.99 pas that qualified him @ # 1 at the time. Made 2 more passes on Saturday. Both were half passes, the last one near the end of session #4. I saw both those passes and I saw nothing wrong with ether pass. He just got out of the throttle. Same thing with Capps last pass of session #4. His 3rd pass ( early Sat afternoon ) was real strong and put him in the top 4 I think. Nothing wrong with his 4th pass that I could see. He just got out of the throttle. Maybe my eyes aren't as good as they used to be and they all had some kind of problem that I just didn't see - and they occurred after they were safely in the field. I guess I should give them the benefit of the doubt and say they were just pushing the track to see where the limits were. Pretty sure they didn't have any engine issues on those passes.

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Most of the typical damamges done to any drag race motor on a regular track happens in the last half of the track If you knew what you could do in qualifying on the last half of the track and knew that the track would change as the day cahnges, sun on the track, weather changes and so on would you be tempted to really hit it hard on the first half and lift if it stuck up to half track I have no idea on the current prices of the blowers, I know they replace the blower belt after every run. A lot of blower explosion are cause by hydraulicing(SP?) the motor in the last three hundred feet of the track, probally after when a blower belt breaks at WOT Maybe not

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Point I was trying to make. I can't remember, but I am pretty sure at least one of Forces last 2 aborted attempts was in the left lane and I am sure Capp's last pass was in the left lane also, so maybe they were just coming loose in that lane and I didn't see that. It just looked suspicious to me at the time. I can surely understand saving parts, but, again, the fans paid to see full runs if there weren't any problems with the run.

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That was pretty neat when they overlay-ed the graphs from Erica Enders passes from testing a few weeks ago to this weekend on the same track. They did address some issues in a very short time with the track and it will only get better with time. They also went on to explain how they make shock adjustments and change shift RPM's so they didn't shift going over the bumps. The GOPRO camera shots from Vincent Nobiles car making a pass was also great. I think that a few of our members that were complaining a few weeks ago about no time slips, speakers, scoreboards, and a few other items can relax now and thank God they have a very nice track to race on. Thanks also go out to NHRA for starting on time and some GREAT TV coverage. GO Mopar.

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For sure on that. They ( the track ) stepped up to the plate in a lot of areas. Score boards are first class along with a nice big instant replay screen. Scales looked new or updated. Some of the fully paved pit areas looked improved on also. My next race there is on the 8th and I am looking forward to it. Also pretty sure I won't have to adjust my shift points to miss the bumps .