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#1
08-07-2006, 08:05 PM
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No door handles
Is it legal to race a car without door handles? I thought it wasn't, but I saw at least three at Norwalk this weekend.
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#2
08-07-2006, 10:26 PM
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When i first built my car, i shaved the handles, but after going to the track a couple times, they told me i need handles outside, just incase they need to get in...as for if it is legal in NHRA/IHRA i'm not sure. But my local track implies that it is. Billy
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#3
08-08-2006, 03:47 AM
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Some race cars have only inside handles, up near the window, with a circle cut out of the Lexan windows to allow someone outside to reach through the window to open the door. That may have been what you saw.
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#4
08-08-2006, 03:56 PM
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The particular one I'm thinking of was a 64 or 65 gto, I don't remember which. It was black with all the chrome blacked out. I don't remember whether there was a hole in the window or not. By that logic it would be legal to race a car with no handles on the outside as long as the window is down, is that correct?
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#5
08-08-2006, 07:06 PM
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Once at the starting line and going down the track, a door car must have the window up at all times regardless of where the door handle is. (NHRA) ie: no waving to your friends or shooting bottle rockets at your opponent.
No outside door handle requires a hole in the lexan so it can be opened by hand from the outside by emergency workers (NHRA) Last edited by BVR421; 08-08-2006 at 07:12 PM. |
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#6
08-08-2006, 07:07 PM
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Is it different for IHRA? I found a picture of the car in question, and there is no hole in the window. Just trying to get this figured out.
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#7
08-08-2006, 07:21 PM
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No door handles is OK, but think what your risking doing that.
No rule, I can find, that makes you cut a hole in the lexan, if you run no door handles on the outside. But its a good thing to have, on a car that races.
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#8
08-08-2006, 09:39 PM
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OK. I was just curious because I thought it was against the rules, but I saw some cars doing it, so it made me wonder.
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