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Originally Posted by Ed Wright
Instead of indexes, we ran off national class records. Used to get points for setting records. We got 2 rounds worth of points for an ET record, one round worth of points for MPH records. Rounds used to be 10, instead of 100. Not sure why they are ten times as many now. Must appeal to somebody. We could only run 1/10th under without breaking out, except national event final rounds (under in a national final round was the new record) or during class. Was not a great lot of breaking out back then. Closer-to-the-record cars normally won. Bracket racing came along, and most of the slower guys went to that. Car counts dropped. If bracket racing had never happened, we might still be running off records. A lot of the time back then I was running off my own record. The first indexes weren't as soft as they are now. Evidently they slowed the indexes to get more slower cars back.
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Thanks for the explanation. So there weren't "minimum" records for the majority of the classes like now?
