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Originally Posted by Michael Beard View Post
There is no correlation between HP factors and driving ability, nor is there any correlation between the veracity of any HP factor and any winning percentage (heads-up or otherwise).
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Your mistaken about the heads ups. Been there.
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No. Winning is a symptom, not causality. You may have been beat because a car was underfactored. The car was not underfactored because it beat you. I will get beat heads-up every time with my DragPak. That does not mean that it is not ridiculously underfactored. It means that I didn't spend money on mine.
HP Factors should not be determined based on winning percentages. HP Factors should be based on a working knowledge of engines, combinations, and real-world performance.
The HP factors on the 'factory race cars' are in no way shape or form defensible. Even production street cars are advertised at significantly higher HP. The fact that NHRA has done the same thing in the past does not make it right. Quite the opposite, such experience should have led to more proper decisions.
The idea that anyone with $100,000 invested in their car over a lifetime can or should scrap their car to purchase a new $100,000 car, or to scrap it and build only M/SA and slower cars is absolutely ridiculous. If someone has the wherewithal to do so and that's what they want to do: that's perfectly fine. No problem, have at it. If you want to take advantage of extremely favorable HP factors, no problem, have at it. I did. It's the only way I could afford getting into Super Stock, and I did it specifically *because* it was ridiculously underfactored.