Did I hit my head on something? Surely this ain't true
 

1 7854 A/S Ryan McClanahan, San Bernardino CA, '20 C 8.388 10.95 -2.562

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Holy toledo!

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I think he was running in class fs/aaa.

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That's correct, just went back and watched the feed. His index is 9.00, must be wrong on the sheet as they announced it correctly and it certainly isn't a stick.

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I think his index is 9.40.

J.R.

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The index in FS/AA is 9.40

The index in FS/AAA is supposed to be 9.25. But on NHRA's site it shows the index being 9.00, which is wrong.

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Live Timing was weird today.

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My reaction was the same, then I saw they fixed the error after Q2 the Q1 class was entered wrong, and they did that to him at another earlier race too.

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What... you guy's didn't believe that I went 449.84 MPH in my Q1 pass right, LOL!!! :D

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NHRA computer probably has old combination info in it.
Or someone fat fingered the keyboard.

Has happened many times to racers, including myself

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It may have changed over the years, but neither NHRA or Compulink ever showed much desire to be using the latest tech so probably not.

I saw this happen fairly often, and for a lot of reasons.

First of the year is always a minefield as people may have changed combinations and/or classes. When any entry goes into that race's database, it's done by car number. So you also get people whose number has changed due to their previous year's performance.

Prefilled tech cards filled out by racers can cause it. Yes, it saves time but if you've changed things you have to remember to update your card.

After tech, the cards come up to the tower for the entry list to be generated. Most of the time that was done by the clock operator but also sometimes other track staff would take over. I'm not trying to throw stones at anybody, but when you're sitting there with hundreds of cards and a limited amount of time to get through them sometimes minor changes (like even one character on the class) can get missed.

And EVERYTHING is attached to that number. Name, car make, engine, class, address, everything.

The Compulink program handles it from there. Whatever it has listed as the index for the class that was entered is automatically inserted everytime that car number is keyed in.

Even if DRC staff is on site and sees a crazy number appear, it has always been the standard that they will not and can not change anything. The track and NHRA are the only ones who can authorize that.


It's why the reports are sometimes delayed. The reporter already has the report for the session and it is complete. But until tech radios the tower that tech for that group is complete and clear (everyone passed), you never hit the button to send the report to the server.

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I think it might be a computer issue that maybe they didn't have FS/AAA in the computer, or the person who entered it put it in incorrectly, on one run I saw it show him as A/S, on another had him as FS/AA (which has a 9.40 index so that run would be over a second under), but on the detailed results on NHRA's website it has all his runs as FS/AAA with the 9.00 index. So likely just issues with the new class being put into the computer correctly.