[Mike Carr]

I should add, to further answer your question, that most Class racers are not flat-out in Eliminations. The car is tuned back, in "bracket mode", to be more consistant. The only time a car is tuned up to go fast is Class Eliminations (any race, but Indy especially), heads-up runs in the Eliminator, Record Runs, or if they want to qualify near the top to get a favorable spot on the ladder. A racer once wrote that their car would become "evil" at time when set up on "kill" (huge wheelies, etc), so most tune them back for the shoe-polish part of the Eliminator. Example, having an A/SA that would go 10.40's in "bracket mode", and run 10.0's in all-out mode. The car would tend to repeat more consistantly running 10.40's, hence that reason.