Mid-year horsepower posted @ nhra.com

[Mike Carr]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

Well, the idea behind one pound weight breaks is to consolidate classes. Yes, one pound weight breaks would tend to keep you from moving between classes. That is not the reason for it at all, it is just one of the side effects.

What would you have done two years or so ago before we campaigned for and got AA? The break for A was 8.0 back then, that was as light as you could get. What Belvedere are you going to race in Stock that is rated at 500HP?

Alan, Jared raced his grandfather's (Harry Holton) '65 Hemi Belvedere in SS/BA. I think he was referring to 1 pound weight breaks in upper Super Stock classes would make for a lot of weight to be added/removed to move to a different class. I remember some complaints when NHRA had FI Stock, and an LS-1 had to move 336 pounds up or down (rated 336 at the time) to move up to A/FI or down to C/FI, so a car would have needed 672 total moveable weight to change within the legal classes. In S/S, it would be worse, as all the cars in SS/A to SS/E are rated 400-500 HP.

Personally, I am 100% in favor of changing the rule to "a car can run ONLY in it's natural class". You can remove weight to make the top of your natural class, but nothing else. No moving up or down at all. That would eliminate some of the games and the "hiding".

-EDIT- The exception would be for a car that can not make a class, per the rules. Example, V-8 cars can not compete in V/SA, so a natural V car would have to run U, or the rule would have to ammended. Same with a 6 cylinder can not compete in W/SA, so it would have to move to V.