Sportsman Council phone conference Tonight!

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Rollins_2241

Rhetorical question: Are any of the SRAC reps for the Super classes driving cars NOT capable of running more than 1.5 seconds under the current indices?

Lowering class indexes accomplishes nothing but locking out otherwise valid entries, a disproportionate number of those being newer racers, who tend to be the lower-HP and budget-conscious. In an era where the economics are already very challenging and car counts are dropping in most divisions and classes, that's the last thing we should do.

I respectfully disagree. Lowering the indexes means cars are on the stop for a significantly shorter time, which in turn accomplishes a number of things:

1) It reduces the advantage of the big$/bigHP person because the tortoise/hare game is much closer. This then reduces the desire to outspend the next guy.

2) It can help with the leakage from SC to TD (and SG to TS) because the people who want to run faster can still do it in the Super classes.

3) It makes the racing more challenging and fun, because faster means harder to judge at the stripe.

4) It makes the Super classes far more palatable to the average fan who complains about the long "idling" or "coasting" that they do. The shorter the time on the stop, the better.

Finally, I'm not sure the $$ spend to run SC or SG is really causing much of an issue these days. It's pretty hard to find a car that couldn't run 7.90 (or 8.90) in these classes these days. Perhaps that's an issue in Super Street, but I don't think it is in SC or SG.