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No Winner at Sox & Martin Hemi Challenge: Finalists Disqualified
National Hot Rod Association ^ | August 31, 2025 | NHRA Communications

Posted on 09/01/2025 3:43:19 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

The champion and runner-up in the Sox & Martin Hemi Challenge were disqualified during the post-race inspection on Friday of the Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals due to a rules infraction.

The purse will be distributed evenly across the remaining competitors.


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KEYWORDS: ddq; drag; dragracing; nhra

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From Competition Plus:

Jason Line - carburetor venturi infraction. Venturis were .008" too large. Jimmy Daniels - cylinder head external modification issue. Displacement was legal.

NHRA Decision: No winner, double disqualification. No competition. The other 14 competitors will share all purse money equally.

1 posted on 09/01/2025 3:43:20 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Cheating in auto racing?......that almost NEVER happens. 😏


2 posted on 09/01/2025 4:09:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

I saw them race at Englishtown, N.J. in the early ‘70s. If I try a little, I can still hear the burnouts and smell the smoke.


3 posted on 09/01/2025 4:20:09 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying


4 posted on 09/01/2025 4:25:18 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier )
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To: All

Update on John Force that had a nasty crash last year. At 76 he won’t be returning to racing.

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/nhra/a65380485/nhra-legend-john-force-likely-wont-race-again/


5 posted on 09/01/2025 4:44:06 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGc-kP1xng


6 posted on 09/01/2025 5:18:54 AM PDT by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Bob Glidden raps box


7 posted on 09/01/2025 7:01:13 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

.008????
I would ask to see the calibration of the measuring tools..

How big is .008?
Take one inch, divide it into a thousand even pieces, then count up 8.
Smaller than the diameter of a blonde human hair


8 posted on 09/01/2025 7:11:49 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: joe fonebone

They say you can feel a .004 scratch with your fingernail.


9 posted on 09/01/2025 7:31:17 AM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

8 thousandths of an inch?

What’s the systemic error for the tools used for these measurements?


10 posted on 09/01/2025 7:45:02 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: ebshumidors

I’d like to see that in practice.


11 posted on 09/01/2025 7:45:50 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: joe fonebone

Indeed. Perhaps from manufacturing.

‘Perhaps.’ That’s rather huge.


12 posted on 09/01/2025 8:34:59 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: 38special
If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.

I recall some of the stories from retired NASCAR drivers, about the cheating in the 50's and 60's. The roll cage alone provided lots of resources. One team filled the roll cage with gasoline, and used that up first. Another made the roll cage of cardboard. Yet another team won a race by using truck tires, so they never had to stop to change tires.

13 posted on 09/01/2025 8:37:46 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

>> Yet another team won a race by using truck tires, so they never had to stop to change tires.

Was that cheating?


14 posted on 09/01/2025 9:11:28 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: joe fonebone

No...
A standard machined part within tolerance of .005 has at least a 125 microfinish at worst... you can’t feel that even by dragging your fingernail across it.. it might fail a cottonball test though..


15 posted on 09/01/2025 9:26:17 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Somehow they were wrong but you can guarantee they weren’t too small.


16 posted on 09/01/2025 12:01:09 PM PDT by calljack (Stealing the 2020 Election will go down in history as the worst political miscalculation of all time)
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To: EVO X

Wow, what a great career, and he’s got his daughters carrying on for him.


17 posted on 09/01/2025 12:12:29 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Bullish

Amazing he survived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se-87igvCrI&t=83s


18 posted on 09/01/2025 5:06:04 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: logi_cal869

Maybe the venturi was enlarged from the fuel or air at high velocity passing through and eroding it.


19 posted on 09/01/2025 5:32:27 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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