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Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico
Mike,
Nice, but my head hurts!
Does the Index drop .3 for all in that class at the event?
"Relegated to those classes..." Is that real? Either case, pretty funny!
Thanks for the birds eye view.
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Bobby, no, just three tenths for you. 8.00 Index, if you run 7.200 in the first round, that is -.800. Your Index for round 2 is now 7.70 (for you only) and will be 7.90 come Monday (for you and everyone else in your class). The temporay CIC (Competition Index Control) hits of -.510 to -.609 affect you only, for that event. When a racer goes more than -.610 at that race, the permanent Index is adjusted, as mentioned earlier, for all in your class. Even if you run 7.410 first round, your Index is 7.91 for next round, while another racer in the same round runs 7.450, his Index will be 7.95 for second round. If you both should run second round against each other, the Index reverts to 8.00 for you both, heads-up. If you win that round on a redlight and can "save" your Index, your Index goes to the 7.91 it would have been, for round 3. Temporary Index hits, as I said, effect that particular driver. If two seperate drivers in the same class both go -.60 in round one, but neither of you go any faster at that event, no permanent adjustment happens and you and everyone in your class goes back to 8.00 at the next race
And yes, once a driver permanently adjusts two different classes (say, B/ED and F/AA), you are stuck in one of those two classes for the rest of the year. I think it's a fair deal. A few years back, a team made a comment in an article, that with two cars, and a multitude of engines, transmissions, intake/carburetors, they could fit eighteen different classes. The two-class rule is in effect to keep the people with a lot of money, but with, shall we say, less than stellar driving ability, from hitting all these different classes permanently and possibly obsoleting a lot of good cars and classes when most can not afford to even come close to running that many cars/classes.
Dave, I'll take the A-. I copied/pasted it from a previous post I made in January, and had the same mistake then, too. So I guess I really get a B+. LOL