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Re: {{{ PROSTOCK REFUSES TO RUN @ SEATTLE }}}
[Re: dillon383]
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07/14/10 10:58 AM
07/14/10 10:58 AM
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It would be very interesting to know what events took place for them to turn around and end up running the class...following the pull-out 
Rickster
From Dragracingonline 
Guess you can decide which version you want to believe
The Internet was full of misinformation regarding the NHRA Pro Stock issue during the third round of qualifying at last weekend’s NHRA Seattle race. First, there was no boycott or refusal to race by the NHRA Pro Stock racers. Indeed, NHRA’s Graham Light made an instantaneous decision that may have prevented some Pro Stocker from crashing and he deserves to be praised for that quick decision.
After the first pair of Pro Stock cars went down the track during Saturday’s third of four rounds of pro qualifying, Warren Johnson was extremely vocal about the lack of traction compound sprayed on the last three hundred feet of the track. While he was expressing his opinion to the TV pit reporter, the next pair of cars had already done their burnouts and were in the process of staging.
Light immediately made the call to pull them out of line and run the nitro classes. He knew that the nitro cars’ tires would carry traction compound way past the 1,000-foot mark. He was right. They ran the nitro cars and then the Pro Stocks followed with no repeat of the earlier traction issue.
The NHRA is caught between a rock and a hard spot. The tire people and car tuners admit that if the track is sprayed with traction compound for the entire 1320 feet the nitro cars tires are much more likely to “chunk” when the driver steps off the throttle at the 1,000-foot mark, which is why they don’t spray the entire quarter mile.
The Agent thinks in the future you will see the Pro Stocks run after the nitro cars both in qualifying and on race day. A big tip of the Agent’s fedora to Graham Light and his crew for getting this one right, and probably preventing some Pro Stockers from crashing at Seattle.
This makes sense but the problem occured on Sunday not Saterday. On Sunday the Pro Stock cars follow the nitro cars except before the finals where they normally run first. NHRA had the option to prep the track after nitro with no ill-effect. They instead said the prep was sufficient and tried to run Pro Stock, when they had problem they sent Pro Stock back to the pits and ran the alcohol cars insted. Pro Stock followed the second session of Nitro, apparently NHRA prepped the track after they ran for the remainder of the day.
 But they are too arogant to admit it!
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