Re: 2 tenths?
If you dont mind a comment from a non racer at this point, it seems THE comment on this thread that could be the most constructive is the one about lowering the AHFS trigger et. Obviously fast people who have worked hard on their cars would be against it at first but it would also make the poorly factored cars come back in line more quickly. It would need more class racing to bring up the need to run fast or maybe just the challenge of fast qualifying to make it work but it would level the field quicker.
This would also take NHRA tech out of the factoring business more. If they made it too low hp and someone built it, it would be adjusted quickly by its own performance, not waiting for someone in tech to care about it killing the other heavily factored cars in the classes.
The 2 tenths off is a good idea as it 1) resets the goal being number 1 to a more reasonable number
and 2) keeps from really creating a unreasonable goal for the beginner. Everyone running today started out slow and worked into the ets we see from experience and hard work.
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