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6 are challengers

2 will get to take weight out on Monday and move up

:-) peace

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Eleven of the top fifteen at Indy last year were new cars.

All things taken into account, it's not really that impressive of a feat. They SHOULD be up at the top, ALL the time. Bragging about winning Class in a new car would be like me bragging that I went to the middle school playground and beat up all the nine year old kids.

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Shame on you Mike! You big bully! Jim




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ain't that the truth

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lol

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With there rating they should be 10 of 10 if every one of them ran it out the back door.

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Sad to see NHRA allow this issue to create a "PRO and CON" camp on the new cars. They are what is NEEDED to get the crowd re involved but with a class of their own maybe. FX. Putting them in existing classes without a clue of HP reality is doing a miserable attack on the S and SS eliminator racers.

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Could you just imagine them in their own class and then having to run heads-up with each other (yes i can ) and that is the way it should be...Talk about fun to watch. The next question would be: Is the fastest one really the fastest or is the slowest one really the fastest? Anyone ? anyone? ......Who knows ? lol ..

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Danny, that would be cool. Having the Challengers vs Mustangs, in a shootout similar to the Hemi Challenge. The fans and manufacturers could really get into that, I think, and it wouldn't upset the other 98% of Stock racers.

BTW, no nine year olds were harmed in the making of my post above.

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Good post,Dick ...A/FX, B/FX would be fine, but what about the new "235 " hp Fords, etc?

NHRA needs to quit buying these ridiculously low ratings on these new cars...

Yeah , like that's really going to happen LOL

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Nobody that I know with one of the new cars would object to beingin our own class.

But you need to convinve the NHRA, not us.... We agree with you.

David
The New Hemi Guy

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David I admire you. You guys run your car out with no thought of getting hp. I know Keith and he likes to go fast. Classes of your own is the obvious solution and a win win for every one. Wonder why NHRA hasn't done it?

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Could not have said it better Dave - you know I really wish we had our own class

We could run A/SA at Fontana and kill all of the old combos but why would we?

I wish the one car that will be in AA/SA could be in a different class - our long time fellow racer - Ryan

We are not trying to prove we are faster than the old combos

We are where we are because of the classification and rules.

We did not make or ask for the classification and the rules - we only follow them.

As to running it all out - since when do the old combos do that - letting off to save a HP hit is nothing new

Read some of the post about why would a guy run it out the backdoor on a redlight


:-) peace

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REALLY; Drag race central showed Keith Lynch running 9.97 @ 120mph down at least 10mph or more. if thats running it all out, well it must have other problems!!!!!!

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Just shows that NHRA is not "in tune" with the Sportstmen... my 15 year old even reeled at the original HP rating on the new Challengers when the DP cars were announced. If a 15 yr old track brat could figure they were bogus, why couldn't the tech dept.???? the controversy is all about the cars not being in the right classes to start with, not how fast they are... I could lay waste to P/SA if I could run my combo in that class (that's the equivalent situation with the DP's and CJ's). Go figure......

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The only adjusting NHRA would have to do is to keep adjusting the index to keep these cars in Stock.We will eventually see Stockers over 150 MPH.Next rule change would be parachutes mandatory on these cars.

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Kind of a "so what?" deal, right? Is anybody really impressed?

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it would be a big deal if they werent

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Well, at least he got close. HP on Tuesday will keep these cars moving in the right direction. They really do need to be in a FX class though.

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I just got up, went in my back yard, took my baseball bat and beat the crap out my dead horse.


Racers its your own fault for showing up, dont hate the player hate the game.

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Nobody hates the players, just wonder how anybody could be so proud of qualifying high with the extremely bogus hp factors they have. Nobody else is impressed.

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Herb
x2 LOL