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I counted 71 New Cars That Qualified Out Of 128 Cars.

By New Cars I mean 2008 & Up.

Seems to me they should have a 64 Car Field Just For Them and the cars
that didn't get in COULD be in, in the 128 car field, instead of them going home
as a non- qualifier.

And I Know All Racers Know This Going In.

Seems like their is enough of new cars out there to be in their "Own Eliminator"

Just my 2 cents.

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I think you are dead on with this thought. The other part of it is the fact that they are not subject to the AHFS when they are in the factory shoot out classes. It won't be to much longer until these will be the only cars in stock at Indy if this is not addressed.

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Next year there will be 128 pick up trucks and all the newer cars will be DNQ.

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Like! :)

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THAT is funny!

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I look at the new names in this class that have a copo,,drag pak,cobra jet,that are in the show and alot of hard workin drivers that have tweaked almost every bit of H.P out of their combos for years lookin in,.Back in the 60,s they made x amount of factory race cars,now this is a production run of them it seems,hey ,they are fast cars and sharp,but it should have been a limited run of them and THATS IT an old friend used to say. Thats my opinion.

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How nhra can justify having combinations that can run balls-out with no penalty on the same qualifying sheet as combinations that are penalized with more HP if they exceed an ET is beyond any rational persons comprehension!!!!!

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A decision like this would make a lot of sense. I believe many of these cars are still being run conservatively. If they were separated it would be some exciting racing with a level of competition with "all the cards on the table". The majority of the cars that did not qualify still all run respectively under their indexes and normally would have been part of a National Event Show. Maybe "they" have recognized it as being the "Stock Eliminator" (interpretation). The best part of the Final Stock Qualifying was who was on top. MB.

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Just got back from Indy and I have to say that you cannot have any more cars in there, are you going to now show up on Saturday of the previous week to qualify and make runs. Just look after the accident involving Calvert's Mustang running into the sand trap and getting caught by the safety strapping it took NHRA working at full bore three hours to return to action, consider that all cars having diapers have saved the track cleaning time, it's still incredible that they can get all the show in. Yes I know class qualifying and elimination isn't what it was once but it still is one hell of a show. Hopefully the Jeg's SportsNational will bring back the rests of the show. All I can Say is that I love Indy even at 100 degrees over temp.lol Claude Ruel

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You'd be amazed what could be done if the show was better run.

If you took the new cars and put them in their own Factory Experimental class, as has been suggested for the last 5-6 years, you could get them on the grounds. You'd have a 64 car field. You had 34 of them in the top of Stock on the qualifying sheet. Drop the Stock quota to 180 and there is a room for 20 cars right there.

Factory Experimental would be the solution to so many problems. And give the factory what they really want from those cars.