My heartfelt best wishes go out for Ralph and his loved ones and I wish him a speedy and, most importantly, a complete recovery.
However, Jimmy I don't consider the current discussion trivial BS. Calling another LSR team "Evil" based on ones complete misunderstanding begs to be clarified. And it doesn't serve the complainer well continuing on in ignorance. I am still confused about post #177 by Wickedwagens just as others have stated. Hopefully, I can give a factual example that simplifies the issue.
I have seen on at least 2 occasions over 30 years, another competitor actually "give" another competitor a record. Let me clarify with an example! Two cars run on the exactly same record on the same day. Same class, same engine, same everything. Just two different car numbers and drivers. They both qualify for the existing record. They both have to make a backup run the next morning. Normally you start your backup run from the position you line up in the morning. In both cases one of those cars was substantially faster than the other car. In one case the faster car was in line in front of the slower car in the morning and would have run first. They would have set an average faster than the other car could reach and therefore the slower car never would have been able to get a record. I saw the faster car tell the slower car to move ahead of him so the slower car could do their back up run first and set the record. (A class-act of sportsmanship you see in LSR all the time). 5 Minutes later the faster car ran and, of course, raised the record. Both cars go to inspection. Both cars get the paperwork for their new record. The only difference is the record that is standing at the end of the year is the one printed in the rule book. A record is a data point you reach in time before anyone else. Any moment after that someone can set a higher data point. Nobody is taking anything away from you at all. You both own your data points forever.
The other case the faster driver was told about the situation and purposely lined up toward the end of qualifying.
