Timing Is Everything
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From: State of Confusion
Timing Is Everything
..... you've just GOTTA love Larry Morgan for "telling-it-like-it-is....."
http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_..._columbus.html
"It's a crock of s---. If you have problems with your clocks . . . I didn't do anything wrong. Antron didn't do anything wrong. Ryan didn't do anything wrong. None of us did anything wrong. I told 'em, 'If I was in your position, I would make the guys re-run.' Graham (Light, NHRA Sr. V.P. of Racing Operations) said no. He said he was sorry, but no. And I told him, 'I don't think it's right. I know what the rules are but I don't think it’s right.' I understand policy. It's beyond policy.
"The whole problem is the cheap-asses won't bring [Compulink owner] Bob Brockmeyer, who's probably one of the most intelligent guys who do this, or [system designer] Art Hayward, who has done every national-event track in the United States, out here.
Those guys are the guys who designed this whole system, but they won't have either one of those guys come out here.
"I'm not talking bad about Graham or Ray Alley or any of those individuals, but it's real simple:
We run on blacktop and concrete dragstrips. And we use timing devices to figure out how quick and fast we go.....
Now, I would think those are two main priorities I would work on -- not worrying about [NHRA President] Tom Compton getting a new car or Graham Light getting a raise.....
I would worry about making it where the spectators see racing, instead of this bull---- that's going on, that they can't make it two cars going down the track.
It's ridiculous the way they operate.
"The two most important parts of drag racing are the timing equipment and the track, and they [NHRA officials] neglect both of them, totally neglect both of them.
..... they're not [NHRA is not] knowledgeable-enough to get the friggin' track right. Just think about this:
think about these poor fans who pay every one of them, at least $100 a race. How do you think they feel to come out here and watch one car go down the track? That would be irritating. That's why they're not getting as many people coming to the races.
I mean, it's crazier than hell the way they're doing.
''They won't admit to their ignorance. That's the problem.....
You can't fix stupid. "
- Larry Morgan, NHRA Pro Stock racer
http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_..._columbus.html
"It's a crock of s---. If you have problems with your clocks . . . I didn't do anything wrong. Antron didn't do anything wrong. Ryan didn't do anything wrong. None of us did anything wrong. I told 'em, 'If I was in your position, I would make the guys re-run.' Graham (Light, NHRA Sr. V.P. of Racing Operations) said no. He said he was sorry, but no. And I told him, 'I don't think it's right. I know what the rules are but I don't think it’s right.' I understand policy. It's beyond policy.
"The whole problem is the cheap-asses won't bring [Compulink owner] Bob Brockmeyer, who's probably one of the most intelligent guys who do this, or [system designer] Art Hayward, who has done every national-event track in the United States, out here.
Those guys are the guys who designed this whole system, but they won't have either one of those guys come out here.
"I'm not talking bad about Graham or Ray Alley or any of those individuals, but it's real simple:
We run on blacktop and concrete dragstrips. And we use timing devices to figure out how quick and fast we go.....
Now, I would think those are two main priorities I would work on -- not worrying about [NHRA President] Tom Compton getting a new car or Graham Light getting a raise.....
I would worry about making it where the spectators see racing, instead of this bull---- that's going on, that they can't make it two cars going down the track.
It's ridiculous the way they operate.
"The two most important parts of drag racing are the timing equipment and the track, and they [NHRA officials] neglect both of them, totally neglect both of them.
..... they're not [NHRA is not] knowledgeable-enough to get the friggin' track right. Just think about this:
think about these poor fans who pay every one of them, at least $100 a race. How do you think they feel to come out here and watch one car go down the track? That would be irritating. That's why they're not getting as many people coming to the races.
I mean, it's crazier than hell the way they're doing.
''They won't admit to their ignorance. That's the problem.....
You can't fix stupid. "
- Larry Morgan, NHRA Pro Stock racer
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From: State of Confusion
Originally Posted by Fuzzy Dice
I'm happy to see someone speak up...penalizing anyone for your mistake is absolutely wrong and, in my opinion, incredibly arrogant...
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Glen
I'll bet you lunch Larry gets his "Hand Slapped" by NHRA... No One can talk That Way about NHRA and not have some reprocussions... (I would Think)
I give Larry credit... for having the ***** To Say That !
I'll bet you lunch Larry gets his "Hand Slapped" by NHRA... No One can talk That Way about NHRA and not have some reprocussions... (I would Think)
I give Larry credit... for having the ***** To Say That !
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Originally Posted by Red96Coupe
Glen
I'll bet you lunch Larry gets his "Hand Slapped" by NHRA... No One can talk That Way about NHRA and not have some reprocussions... (I would Think)
I give Larry credit... for having the ***** To Say That !
I'll bet you lunch Larry gets his "Hand Slapped" by NHRA... No One can talk That Way about NHRA and not have some reprocussions... (I would Think)
I give Larry credit... for having the ***** To Say That !
a picture of Rick Stewart, dramatically giving Morgan the 'cut-it' sign as his car is trying to stage on the front.....
and
"YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!!!!",
with the NHRA-logo below it, on the back.....
I'd buy one, and have Larry-himself autograph it!!!!!
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From: State of Confusion
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From: State of Confusion
Jon Asher & the “Attitude of Arrogance”
http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_...nt_policy.html
..... among the juicier tid-bits from the pits:
..... among the juicier tid-bits from the pits:
That equipment is no more flawed than NHRA’s inability to correct the problem......
Excuses about job pressures and having to put out too many fires aren’t convincing, they’re just corporate whining by executives who were supposedly hired because of their ability to handle such problems on a daily basis.
They’re really indicators that the wrong people are making bad decisions that can adversely affect the careers of individuals whose only error in judgment was to have made the decision to go racing in the first place.
Citing internal job pressures as some sort of excuse for not handling a major problem like this in an efficient manner is also a tacit admission that the executive in question lacks the ability to handle such problems at all.
Common sense and the obvious fact that almost 100% of the professional competitors on the POWERade circuit have lost confidence in Light’s ability to manage the races indicate that it’s time for him to be replaced, removed from the Board of Directors, handed a Golden Parachute, and sent into retirement.
But, just as members of the armed forces consider the words “military intelligence” to be mutually exclusive terms, so too are the words NHRA and common sense.
- Jon Asher
Excuses about job pressures and having to put out too many fires aren’t convincing, they’re just corporate whining by executives who were supposedly hired because of their ability to handle such problems on a daily basis.
They’re really indicators that the wrong people are making bad decisions that can adversely affect the careers of individuals whose only error in judgment was to have made the decision to go racing in the first place.
Citing internal job pressures as some sort of excuse for not handling a major problem like this in an efficient manner is also a tacit admission that the executive in question lacks the ability to handle such problems at all.
Common sense and the obvious fact that almost 100% of the professional competitors on the POWERade circuit have lost confidence in Light’s ability to manage the races indicate that it’s time for him to be replaced, removed from the Board of Directors, handed a Golden Parachute, and sent into retirement.
But, just as members of the armed forces consider the words “military intelligence” to be mutually exclusive terms, so too are the words NHRA and common sense.
- Jon Asher
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