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Smkymts · 08-28-2015, 02:48 PM

You have asked a very dangerous question. It totally depends on the track you're running and the officials of the event. Everyone wants to bring out the NHRA rulebook when you asked that question. The point I have always made is that the events I've run with my convertible are not NHRA sanctioned events therefore the rules shouldn't apply. Some racetracks will agree with that and allow you to run without a rollbar or cage. Other times they will not. An excellent example is Camaro fest 2013 I was told I could not run because I was too fast, but this year I didn't ask and they allowed me to run and I ran 11:95.
I was told the reason for the change was that this years track was not pushing the rulebook. So I recommend you go and you race until somebody tells you you can't it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Many on here will sit there and tell you you're going to kill yourself and that you have a higher likelihood to die in roll over accident in a convertible while Drag racing in a straight line. But the same people will allow you to run The same car in Autocross without a roll cage. So my question is why do you believe that I have a higher likelihood of killing myself in a straight line versus throwing my car into a hairpin curve as fast as I can drive?
No one has yet to address that? But my guess is because AutoX events don't have a governing agency like NHRA.

But NHRA rules only cover NHRA sanctioned events, not the track. My local dragstrip/Nascar track is Bristol, Tennessee's Fastest 1/2 mile Oval & Thunder Valley Dragstrip. When I spoke to the owner of the track, he personally told me that he deals with both Governing boards on their individual events, but events not related to their sanctioned event has no bearing on other events. So almost every Thursday the track sponsors, street fights night. To pull young drivers off the street and lessen street racing and put it in a safer environment. With local police and business overwhelming support. So why would Camarofest or other non-sanctioned NHRA events demand NHRA compliance? So before I get hundreds of angry responses to this, yes I do understand there are excellent reasons for the rules and a cage would be safer. But I refuse to cut up my car just to please others. Given NHRA safety standards, no one should drive a convertible ever on the roads for the same safety reasons. Unkess you think 70mph on a highway is safer than 50mph on a AutoX track?

08-28-2015, 02:48 PM	#6
Smkymts Drives: 2011 Camaro Convertible SS Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Tennessee Posts: 146	You have asked a very dangerous question. It totally depends on the track you're running and the officials of the event. Everyone wants to bring out the NHRA rulebook when you asked that question. The point I have always made is that the events I've run with my convertible are not NHRA sanctioned events therefore the rules shouldn't apply. Some racetracks will agree with that and allow you to run without a rollbar or cage. Other times they will not. An excellent example is Camaro fest 2013 I was told I could not run because I was too fast, but this year I didn't ask and they allowed me to run and I ran 11:95. I was told the reason for the change was that this years track was not pushing the rulebook. So I recommend you go and you race until somebody tells you you can't it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Many on here will sit there and tell you you're going to kill yourself and that you have a higher likelihood to die in roll over accident in a convertible while Drag racing in a straight line. But the same people will allow you to run The same car in Autocross without a roll cage. So my question is why do you believe that I have a higher likelihood of killing myself in a straight line versus throwing my car into a hairpin curve as fast as I can drive? No one has yet to address that? But my guess is because AutoX events don't have a governing agency like NHRA. But NHRA rules only cover NHRA sanctioned events, not the track. My local dragstrip/Nascar track is Bristol, Tennessee's Fastest 1/2 mile Oval & Thunder Valley Dragstrip. When I spoke to the owner of the track, he personally told me that he deals with both Governing boards on their individual events, but events not related to their sanctioned event has no bearing on other events. So almost every Thursday the track sponsors, street fights night. To pull young drivers off the street and lessen street racing and put it in a safer environment. With local police and business overwhelming support. So why would Camarofest or other non-sanctioned NHRA events demand NHRA compliance? So before I get hundreds of angry responses to this, yes I do understand there are excellent reasons for the rules and a cage would be safer. But I refuse to cut up my car just to please others. Given NHRA safety standards, no one should drive a convertible ever on the roads for the same safety reasons. Unkess you think 70mph on a highway is safer than 50mph on a AutoX track? Last edited by Smkymts; 08-29-2015 at 12:09 PM.