What would you like to see changed this year
 

Here it is IHRA<NHRA<ADRL what would you like to see changed this year?

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I'd like to see qualifying done off the indexes instead of heads up. It would give the spectators something to watch. As they could root for the faster or slower car.
It would not take anymore time, because if I run a SS/AM car they still have to wait for me to get off the track before they can run the next pair.

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Art, i believe they are doing that in D4, but i agree they should do it all the time.

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I would love for everyone to have a great year, be supportive and positive towards everyone (including NHRA).

Most of all enjoy what we have today and everyday. :D

Life is short and the happiness of our life depends on the quality of our thoughts !

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Management in all of them.

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Wow Joe ,Caring ,Warm , Tender ,,,,, Then you rip there eye's out on the tree and carry them thru by .002 .

Happy New Year to all !

Marc

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I like that idea. It would make qualifying a heck of a lot more interesting and fun.

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I think it would be a win win situation. But when I brought it up I was told it would cause problems because of reruns, if the got the index wrong.

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Chad, they stopped doing that. I thought it was fun too.

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Well said Joe............Happy New year to all.

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Sounds good in theory, but with all the "index saving" and jockeying for ladder position, how many would be flat out,side by side all the way down?

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Could be any worst than we have now. They wouldn't (shouldn't) be side by side till the finish line.
Right now the only time I'm side by side is before the tree comes down.

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More HP on Cambria's COPO

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Do away with the 1000' incremental times in Sportsman racing.

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How about a year of no changes or "enhancements" so we can just enjoy racing?

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Hmm, lets see...

More tracks built everywhere, but I know it won't happen...

New management, can they be bought out...

New rules in certain classes...

Cheaper entrance fees & more money for payouts...

I could go on...


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I would like to see that in Division 3......for sure....the staggered tree in qualifying that is.....

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D 4 had it for a year or two and D 5 tried it at a few events. It made sense to me to run qualifying the same way as eliminations with the staggered tree. It's easy to do with a software patch at CompuLink tracks. I don't know how easy it would be to make it an option with TSI, Accutime or Chrondek timing.

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x2!!!!

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Where to start? Have some basic changes to the AHFS. Have most of the late model cars in their own classes without hp adjustments, but remain in Stock with shoe polish for eliminations. Take 5% off all 2007 or older cars, maybe a little less on the LS1. Have Tuesday Tech post something useful. Have more people that own and race cars post on this forum. Get a $500,000 grant from our lustrous Pres. to study the exact temp that beer gets ice crystals in both cans and bottles. Have the Fiscal Cliff apply to all members of congress only except for the Pres who gets an ASFS (Automatic Salary Factoring System), I like the qualifying based on indexes, Have more new cars, Have more old cars, Have no rain allowed for National, Divisional, and National Opens, Have Woodrow healthy, Have no human body parts changed this year, Beat Slate (just once), Win a Points Race, Find the finish line (wherever that thing is), Find the starting line (more than once), and I have drifted toward the center line, so I will think of more later.

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As long as fouls don't count in qualifying, the driver of the faster car can just leave any time he wants after the other green. For example, if I were trying to qualify the hypothetical SS/AM car, I wouldn't want to be sitting on the line for an extra five seconds for a meaningless 'race' with your SS/GS car, getting hotter and killing my ET.

To make qualifying more interesting, pair the cars closely by index, in reverse order, slowest to fastest. The spectators will know that the cars will keep getting faster as the session progresses and they will want to stay in their seats to the end so they don't miss the most exciting cars. Also, post a bounty for low ET of each session and track the best time on the scoreboard.

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I doubt you will get people to line up according to their ET for qualifying. LOL

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Art,
I've been saying that for years, would add a lot to the time runs.

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X2 Bro

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I would like to see them combine sticks and automatics, and run all the classes - no combos.

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The tilt of the playing field (NHRA) and bring it back to level. I have not raced at IHRA or ADRL so I don't know what I would change if anything.

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x2

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I would like to see the equipment manufactures start to support Stock/Super Stock classes like they should. Eliminate a must have proof factor for their Contigencies and eliminate the must purchase within the last year or two to be elgible for class money or the Eliminator money, the sport is very expensive to be in, and to require a racer to update all his equipment to be elgible to win contigency monies is way out of line. Conceivably you could win a National or Divisional an only receive the Nhra purse. The manufactures need to step up and pay us direct and not let NHRA control there sponsor funds.....just my 2 cents

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I would like to see 5th rd loser at a div get their entrance fee back!!!!!!!!!!!

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x3

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5th round would have been the finals in two out of the five divisionals we raced in 2012.

TP

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I agree with you, it brings some excitement back.

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Joe D. ----------You said it all .

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I would like to see jeff Teuton live to be 106 and still be racing.For his seed to be used to birth another 100 like him.(artificially of course don't want to wear the old guy out) And for Bo Kenny to have his Amex card taken away from him.Me I would just like to race more and win something that would be a big change.
Finally however I would like to see IHRA bring back the Pros( and Top Stock) and the racing they had about 5 years ago when we had some of the most fun you could ever have at a track and the nationals were packed.

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I would like to see the seat belt expiration extended to more than its current two years.

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I would like to see an overhaul of the NHRA structure. Get rid of the whole lot move them to Indy or someplace out of California. Put Pat from no-problem in as the head cheese. Find a way for the right people to pay for the insurance at nationals so the sportsmen don’t have to pay to cover the fuel cars being there. Get some tech people that are allowed to do their Job. Actually go by the rule book instead of changing the rules to meet what the cheaters have been doing. Do some work to the AHFS so it actually works. Tear down of cars before HP is given would be a good start. Also I would suspended anyone found complaining about so and so getting them HP. Since in my system before the car got HP it would have been torn down and found legal. So obviously if it was capable of going too fast so it needed adjusted. That would be a good start.

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What would be the point of moving NHRA from California to Indy?

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umm, let's count the ways:

lower cost of doing business
Indy, racing Capitol
Indy, home of flagship track
central location so nationwide communication better (office hours)
disappearing tracks in So Cal

and...................the #1 reason............is.........hopefully taking the la la out of their decisions and back into the real world

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Every thing that Randall said.

The cost of just about every thing is higher in California.

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The only one I would agree with is lower cost of doing business.The fact of California is losing drag strips does not have anything to do with how NHRA does business.