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Originally Posted by Joe DeMarzo
Looking at the Indy qualifying by class (stock) it seems that there is parity in each class. All the discussion about soft combinations, excuses and other "stuff' seems to be a mute point. There are plenty of racers who work on their cars and are competitive. Performance racing within bracket racing is the way to go. Lower the indexes and let performance take over. Never been to Indy but hope to some day. I may or may not make the field but I will give my best without excuses. Someday NHRA will figure out the horse power system and everyone will get what they want. Until then it is what it is. By the way Biondo, Fletcher, Richardson, DeFrank and many others are great bracket racers within class racing. Try getting one them heads up and see how fast they go. Maybe class racing is not for everyone. Until we land in Utopia I hope we all live in peace.
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Joe,
This theory about lowering the indexes will work to a point. I came up in the era where we ran off class records, all it took was some guy to bomb the record and your car was junk!
In the end, it was the well sponsored, heavily financed teams that held records that NO one else could touch and we went into a dive like today with falling numbers of racers...who wanted to race a guy that could run 5 tenths faster without trying. It was at that time that NHRA stepped in with the index system.
What's the answer? I don't know. But I do know that you can't make everyone happy at the same time, someone will always feel slighted.
Jim R