[art leong]

Originally Posted by dragracer9911

I think what he is saying is that it is a "bracket race" after any heads up runs or class eliminations. With the cost for racing fuel and the extra .10 you pick up from it, it's all about shoe polish. In the "good old days", everyone ran off their class index. The faster car within their index should win against slower car running off their index. There was an advantage for every hundredth of a second to be fast. Now, it doesn't matter as much about ET, because you put what you want on the window. It's more about the cost of the fuel, not the fuel check it self.
With our bracket cars, we used to run VP or CAM 2 fuel at $12.00 a gallon. Now we run Sunoco 93 pump gas @ $3.80 to $ 4.10 a gallon with one degree of timing taken out. Last night, my son's stick car ran an 11.98, 11.97, 11.96, 11.97., so consistency has not been an issue either.
Just my .02.

The "good old days" when you won if you got to the starting line first. Only lasted one year. I think it was 1975. From then till now it's been shoe polish. Except in the case of same class.