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Re: Mid-year horsepower posted @ nhra.com
P.S. I congratulate guys like Eric Merryfield. You go guy !
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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?
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Re: Mid-year horsepower posted @ nhra.com
The mustang and hemi still did not get hurt much in my opinion ( I don't have a car so I have no axe to grind) Them cars are rockets and I would hate to be in class with them. I understand that NHRA needs corporate involvement in racing so after the new wears off the "new" rockets maybe the playing field will be leveled. Thank goodness the manufacturers are willing to pump some $$'s and interest in the sport! Hopefully The next election will purge the crap out of the political machine and the country can get back on the right track! Don Jackson
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07-07-2010, 10:16 PM | #34 |
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L88 Corvette 434 hp OEM head only
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Hopefully The next election will purge the crap out of the political machine and the country can get back on the right track! Don Jackson
From your mouth to God's ear Don!!! Jim .
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It would be good also to match the field with the quota. Why not allow at least 70 cars into a 64 car field. At least there wouldn't be guys dragging the brakes to be the bottom qualifier.
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Re: Mid-year horsepower posted @ nhra.com
[QUOTE=Michael Beard;
I find it odd/comical/sad that I'm the *bracket racer* here, and so many of the hard core "class racers" run screaming to protect their own interests when you actually try to do something to bring the class racing back to class racing. Too many of them like to just pretend they are performance-based racers. That pretty well sums it up for me! Everything is done "In MY best interest". There are very few racers left that will consider what is good for the Eliminator or for that matter what is "Right or wrong" and "Legal or not" and why should they! The people running the sanctioning body are either ignorant of what is going on or just don't care. Welcome to the 21st. century! And stop wondering how Nobama managed to get elected!
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However, that 4th sentence, the idea that the sanctioning body is either ignorant or oblivious, is false. They know exactly what they're doing and what is going on. They can get away with it because of the 2nd and 3rd sentences. We wouldn't benefit from money and points for class, we're not fast enough. We wouldn't benefit from money and points for qualifying, we're not fast enough. We wouldn't benefit from points for records for the same reason. And one pound weight breaks would just lock us into one class, we couldn't move to avoid the new super cars. So we have nothing to gain from what I suggested, especially not in the short term. We might or might not be hurt by what I suggested, depending on the circumstances. But I see where moving the class back towards the performance based side of things would be good for the health of the class. And in the end, what is good for the class is good for the people racing in the class.
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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.
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[QUOTE=Alan Roehrich; And in the end, what is good for the class is good for the people racing in the class.
Thank you! Now how do we get racers to all "agree on anything"! Alan, any racer that knows me has heard this quote,"Racers as a whole are so damned stupid that it's amazing we manage to feed ourselves". I hope that at some point in time we all wake the hell up!
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