B/AD or A/Fool

Early in the year people were complaining about the lack of parity in TAD. Everyone said wait until Topeka. Well its here! Before they start running, will there be parity?

 

Not sure of the cars entered.

But, if top runners from both sides are present, it is hard to not believe Reicherts recent low .20 and Finkes low .20 will be matched by any blown cars.

Parity does not exist. A blown car can win, but will need some extra luck.

We'll see

 

The only way ther will be parity is if Ashly Force starts running a blown car.

 

Years ago when I ran a super comp car I used to complain about the alcohol cars. Seems like they oiled the track, got preferential treatment, made us run after dark or in the rain. Someplace along the way I decided it was easier to join them than fight them so I bought a TAFC. Fixed that problem but caused a million others. Seems like if I had a blown alcohol dragster I would change over to A/Fuel. If you can't beat them join them. I know if they allowed injected nitro motors in TAFC I would already have one.

 

Dave; Why do you think they call it Alcohol Dragster and Alcohol Funny Car.
They had know place to put A Fuel so they put it in ALCOHOL DRAGSTER!!! They need to seperate them!!!!!!!

 

How bout' that 5.43 in 3200 feet of air. That's pretty stout!
Nice job Reichert!

 

As much of a nitro fan as I am , I want to see parity between the two combinations. Each has its positives. BAD has their leave, AFools have their noise, smell and pop, but, its watching, waiting to see who crosses the line first thats great! Is the c-type the least $ for BAD? What besides less % would slow AFools and not handicap them at certain weather/ altitudes?

 

So after one session - .13 hundreds between a Top Alcohol Dragster and the other.

 

After two rounds, its AFool-BAD-AFOOL-BAD-AFool. Yes, Reichert is ahead of OBannon by .11, but, OBannon is ahead by how much on third. Maybe its just those two?

 

Whatever!!!!!!! The other A-fuel cars are sucking. Just because Reicherts got his shit together everyone starts whining again. When santos was running 20's in the blown car nobody else was with a blower. If Bill was running 50's here like the rest of the a-fuel cars O'bannon would be #1. You can't base your argument on one guy who lives and breathes this stuff every waking minute of every day.

I think he should have been on the cover of this weeks national dragster, not Ashley Force. He's won 7 of his last 9 races and 3 in a row. I say congrats to him for having the best tune-up of either combination.

 

BAD Nice run at Red River Div. 4

Callaway made one qualifing pass at this race and ran a 5.407 which turned out to be only .003 from low et. Also top speed at the time. Temp was 93 deg. adjusted alt. 3200 feet. Nice run Lee. Took Torrence 3 runs to get to 5.404.

 

Good to see Callaway running, at all! Too bad he's not at Topeka.

 

After 1 round at Topeka, it's 4 A/Fools against 4 BAD's. Is that parity?????

 

Seems kind of funny last week NHRA reminds all that power mist and all oxygen exiter fuel are not permitted and will be checked and all classes including tad slow down considerably HUM?????????????????????????????? ANY INPUT

 

John Finke went 5.284 @ 270.27 in his final round victory at the Maple Grove Div 1 points race this evening, doesn't look like they slowed down very much
Ya ever think just maybe it could be the 94 degree weather, 3700-3900 foot corrected altitude, and 105-125 degree track temp. affecting performance's in Topeka, and not the lack of some secret fuel additives??? Just a thought

 

Semi's 3 B/AD 1 A/Fool

Looks like Topeka may belong to the B/AD's. Could be Demke vs. Obannon in the Final.
Go Chris!!!!!

 

Topeka Finals

Couldn't ask for a better final round, Demke vs Obannon, or should I say Maddern vs. Grimes. 2 Finals in 2 years at Topeka for Chris time for a WIN!!!

GO PEEN RITE GANG!!!!

 

There is no proof that anyone has been useing the additives that NHRA is now testing for. Topeka was the start of NHRA using the CG test to look for things such as powermist. They do not have the equipment to check the fuel at divisional events. It takes about 15 min for the computer to run a full check so no one would know if they had failed till some time after. NHRA has said that they are going to take fuel samples at divisional events and take them back to there lab to test after each event till the divisions can get the proper equipment. How they will deal with anyone caught cheeting has not been explained yet. The only thing I have heard is that the punishment will be very hefty including some kind of suspension. I still hope there are not any racers in our class that would do something like this.