· TDRA RULE CHANGES AND UPDATES FOR 2009, THIS BY NO MEANS COVERS ALL APPLICABLE RULES WE STRONGLY URGE YOU TO PURCHASE A CURRENT NHRA RULE BOOK. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL OUR TECH DEPARTMENT FOR CLARIFICATION.
Drive Shaft Loop : If you drive a street vehicle with street tires, no drive shaft loop is required. If you have “street slicks” Loop is required
· Clutch, Flywheel, flywheel shield : flywheel and clutch meeting sfi spec 1.1 or 1.2 mandatory on any car running 7.35 or quicker, flywheel shield meeting sfi spec 6.1,6.2,6.3, or 9.1 mandatory on cars running 7.35 or quicker
· Stnd Trans : scattershield mandatory 7.35 sec & quicker
· Automatic Trans : neutral safety switch required
· Trans Shield : mandatory 6.39 sec & quicker
· SFI Flexplate : mandatory 6.39 sec & quicker
· SFI Flexplate Shield : mandatory 6.39 sec & quicker
· SFI Clutch : mandatory 7.35 sec & quicker
· Roll Bar : mandatory7.00 to 7.35 & convertibles running 7.00 to 8.25
· Roll Cage : mandatory 6.99 & quicker; if you have a full body with no alterations to firewall or floor; roll bar permitted to 6.4 sec
· Window Net : mandatory if roll cage required
· Hood : optional; carb must have flash shield
· Fuel lines : maximum of 12 inches of rubber fuel line total front to rear.Injector nozzle and motorcycle fuel lines are excluded. fuel lines must be of approved material(consult nhra rulebook)
· Fuel cells and or tanks : all fuel tanks/cells must be totally isolated from the drivers compartment by a firewall, completely sealed to prevent any fuel from entering drivers compartment. Fuel cells must have a metal box protecting the part of the fuel cell that is outside of the body or trunk floor.
· Axle retention : aftermarket axles and axle retention devices mandatory on any cars running 6.99 or faster or any car with a locked differential(spool)
· Windshield : mandatory stock bodied
· Batteries : must be securely mounted; NO BUNGIES!
· Kill Switch : rear of vehicle 6.39 & quicker or if battery is relocated to rear
· Fire Extinguisher : good idea but not mandatory
· License : valid drivers mandatory; L’s or learner permits allowed after completion of TDRA licensing procedures. NHRA Competition license required 6.39 or quicker
· Seat Belts : mandatory in all cars; competition type required 7.35 & quicker; expired belts will be allowed in cars running 7.35 & slower after passing a visual inspection by tech
· Helmets : mandatory in all classes. Any vehicle 7.35 or faster must have a Snell rating of 2000 or newer. If you run 6.49 seconds or quicker a full face helmet is mandatory. Helmet painting is allowed but it can not cover any approval or certification decals.
· Protective Clothing :
Shorts, bare legs, muscle shirts or bare torsos PROHIBITED!
SFI 3.2A/1 Competition Jacket Required: 8.49 seconds and quicker. Including All Non OEM Blowers, Turbo’s and Nitros With stock OEM or Steel .024 firewall.
SFI 3.2A/5Competiton Jacket & SFI 3.3/1 Gloves Required: 6.40 to 8.59 with Blower, Turbo or Nitros without stock OEM or .024 steel firewall
SFI 3.2A/15 Competiton suit including shoes or boots and gloves meeting 3.3/5 Required: 4.50 to 6.39 Front engine open bodied or closed body with Non OEM or Altered floor and firewall running a Blower, Turbo or Nitros.
SFI 3.2A/1 Competiton Jacket required: 6.40 to 7.35 seconds Natural Aspirated or with OEM Blower or Turbo With Stock OEM or .024 Steel firewall.
SFI 3.2A/5 Competition Jacket and Pants as well as Gloves 3.3/1 required: 4.50 to 6.39 or any vehicle exceeding 135MPH except as noted above.
SFI 3.2A/15 suit as well as boots and gloves meeting 3.3/5 required 6.40 seconds and quicker running Blower or Turbo and Alcohol.
SFI 3.2A/15 suit including boots and gloves meeting 3.3/5 required: Any vehicle with Automatic trans exposed in driver compartment.
All open bodied vehicles running 7.50 or quicker require gloves 3.3/1 and Arm restraints. Except as noted above.
· Bikes, Sleds & ATV’S : boots covering ankle mandatory, gloves & jacket mandatory, Lanyard cutoff required on Atv’s.
· Must be 79 years of age or younger to race because of our insurance policy
· Nitros bottles in Passenger compartment must be vented outside by approved venting kit. If Nitrous is in the trunk, it must be vented outside if no firewall exists between passenger compartment and trunk area.
· Aftermarket computers are only allowed for tunning (ie time trials)and are not allowed once eliminations have begun . After market computers are not to be accessible from the drivers compartment. Onboard computers will be inspected and decisions will be made as to eligibility by TDRA Tech department.
· All suspension modifications differentiating from guidelines must be approved by the T.D.R.A.
· Teching is from 8:00 a.m. – Drivers meeting. Any cars needing to be Teched after meeting will be done on an “as soon as we can” basis (our Tech guys are racers too).
SAFETY INFRACTIONS: If at any time during qualifying or elimination’s, an entry exceeds the MPH or ET for which the car or driver are safely certified, or if the driver or car are found to be in violation of any other safety standards, the T.D.R.A.has the sole authority to: (1) restrict the driver and vehicle from further runs until the problem is remedied or (2) disqualify the entry from the event. There is no recourse through the T.D.R.A. for any safety infraction rulings made by the host track safety inspectors. If a vehicle during elimination’s exceeds the MPH or ET that it is teched for, that vehicle will be immediately disqualified from further competition and the opponent he/she was racing will advance in the elimination’s. If a car exceeds its MPH/ET rating during qualifying it will receive one warning from the T.D.R.A. prior to disqualification.
ELIGIBILITY-CAR: An individual vehicle cannot be used for multiple entry and hold multiple qualified positions in either a single eliminator or in multiple points earning eliminators.
ELIGIBILITY-DRIVER: A driver may enter only one vehicle per event . The T.D.R.A. with the approval of the Tech Director, has the option of allowing a vehicle change, but only under certain conditions:
*All previous event times are voided for vehicles and drivers involved.
*Changes must be made, and the driver re-qualify, during the normal scheduled qualifying rounds for the event. No changes are permitted once eliminations have begun.
*Driver must stay within class and category entered.
These are a few of the rules that you will be required to meet in order to compete at a T.D.R.A. event. We recommend that you obtain a copy of the N.H.R.A. rulebook and read it over. Please pay attention to your class only! We operate under the ET BRACKET rules, (pages 57/87 in the 2009 rule book).
TDRA “L” License procedure
1. Upon the completion of the steps outlined below, the “L” driver will be treated as a regular racer and thus required to attend Drivers Meetings and is available to race in the category their car is qualified to race in
2. The “L” drive must have had their Learners license for at least 3 months before the first day they wish to race on
3. On the first day of racing for the “L” driver:
a. L Driver will make one pass during time trials with a Supervisor in the car (supervisor can be a parent, guardian or Teacher)
b. A member of the TDRA will observe the pass from the side lines
4. If the pass is acceptable and the L driver displays knowledge of the “process” of drag racing they are signed off on their account on the computer system (so we have them on record that they have been through this qualification) and will be qualified from that day fourth
5. If the pass was not acceptable the supervisor and/or the TDRA member will advise the L Driver of the proper procedures and a second pass will be made
6. Each L driver will be given 3 attempts per race weekend to qualify
7. The vehicle the “L” driver will be driving must be no quicker than 9.99 seconds in the 1/8th mile.
