[chaze]

Is a driver door window required to be in the up closed position during an NHRA race on a 2 door sedan post car?

 

[Shane 69 Hugger]

Please post this in the racing section.

 

[chaze]

I'm bench racing a car within a simulator game so ...

 

[Shane 69 Hugger]

I'm bench racing a car within a simulator game so ...

Oh. I don't see a game section here yet, maybe we could ask for one.

 

[chaze]

Look, if you object to my posting then ask a mod to move it. I do not care.

 

[bracketchev1221]

All windows are required to be up.

 

[Shane 69 Hugger]

Look, if you object to my posting then ask a mod to move it. I do not care.

I wasn't objecting. I just pointed out that there's a better place for it.

 

[600renegade]

Yes, your windows need to be up...I was reminded of this on every hot track day this summer...LOL..

 

[John R]

It would make sense to keep it up, regardless of the rules. I'd imagine the drag after 80 mph could affect the time slightly.

Also, while this probably isn't a rule per se, believe they don't like dark tinted windows either, fwiw.

 

[chaze]

I guess it doesn't make sense to me when some altereds and rat rods are essentially convertibles with no side windows.

Maybe I should go ahead and install fixed plexiglass and call it a day. I don't have a good regulator and window for this project.

 

[600renegade]

I guess it doesn't make sense to me when some altereds and rat rods are essentially convertibles with no side windows.

Maybe I should go ahead and install fixed plexiglass and call it a day. I don't have a good regulator and window for this project.

I believe in those cases you do have a different set of harness rules.... Much depends on how fast you run, I'm slow soooooo.....

 

[Derek69SS]

I find it funny how different racing sanctioning bodies have such very different rules.

NHRA even back when I first started racing and my car ran 15s at 89mph... window MUST be up.
USCA running 140mph around Road America... windows MUST be down.

 

[von]

Probably one reason is to prevent back glass from blowing out. Can happen.

 

[chaze]

Good answer. I never thought of that.

 

[MikeN]

I think you can run with window down (or no window) if you have a window safety net, but not 100% sure on that.

 

[rkd]

All windows up in door cars.

 

[Shane 69 Hugger]

I guess it doesn't make sense to me when some altereds and rat rods are essentially convertibles with no side windows.

Maybe I should go ahead and install fixed plexiglass and call it a day. I don't have a good regulator and window for this project.

Isn't Plexiglas a bad thing for a window?

 

[chaze]

I think maybe Lexan is the proper material.

 

[Shane 69 Hugger]

I think maybe Lexan is the proper material.

Yea, perhaps, I thought plexi breaks into shards and can cause some serious cuts etc.

 

[69SS454]

This reminds me of a woman I know that had a car accident. She was drunk and went off of the road, into a ditch, went air born, and clipped a tree with her driver's door. It ripped her arm off at the shoulder. She only survived because someone saw it happen and kept her from bleeding out with his coat.