[Adger Smith]

I'm sitting here letting this cold run it's course. So I crunched a few numbers. Not taking sides, just showing the numbers.
Using the Dec. Nitro Joe's Stats book I took a look at the most populated classes. I know that this is a run count, not a true car count as some cars migrate from class to class and have multiple drivers. So its based on fastest runs.
The AA/SA thru I/SA has a index from 10.90 to 12.60 with a run count of 969 That is a count of AA/SA =65 to I/SA =70
The sick cars fall a little different. with AA/S at only 9. I dropped it and count only A/S to G/S because there are double digit numbers in those classes A/S to G/S = 179 A/S =30 G/S =16 The index in A/S to G/S is 11.25 to 12.20
So that makes 969 for autos and 179 for Sticks that is an 18% ratio
If you take the total stick count, 245 vs the total auto count 1305 you get the same 18% ratio. I think it is interesting that the most populated car counts run the same 18% of overall partipation count in both Stick & Auto
Classes. I think that says there is the same chance of a headsup in the populated Stick classes as the most populated auto classes.
Now it is interesting that the index numbers tighten up to a .95 seconds range in the sticks VS the 1.7 second range for the autos. I think that would show that 2 stick cars, from the most populated classes, would have a 45% chance of running closer to one another (side by side) than the most populated autos. Ah!, but when you compare the actual fastest runs instead of index what is it? A/S fasted listed run = 9.813 G/S fastest listed run =10.888 That is a 1.075 range. The AA/SA fastest run listed = 9.613 and the I/SA = 11.333 for a 1.17 second range. I think that shows that the stick racing is still closer? So I can conclude that sticks racing one another is closer and faster than automatics racing one another.