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Originally Posted by Mike Keener
I can't believe that you guys want this index left alone so you can have a place to play without risk of getting HP.. Talk about a personal agenda. Guess some of you believe it's real nice to have a quiet practice class of your own with no regard to the interest of a fair and level playing field for racers that may want to have an EQUAL chance of qualifying now that the new cars are out of the picture. Yeah sure. Great idea....
This index should be 10.75 to 10.80 in order to be fair. You all know it, I know it, and so does anyone serious about racing this class for other than a test basin. Dave was being honest when he said 200 pounds was only .18 and he was right on the money! Now that's settled- so where does a 10.60 index find any level of support?
Yo Ken...for the record. NOBODY running 9.80's will qualify at Indy next year in AA. If you recall the the bump at Indy this year was .88.2 under. My math says your 9.80 shot on a 10.60 index would be just good enough to tie with Corda for the NUMBER 157 slot. How's that for going deep in the DNQ dept?
Let's put it this way. There isn't one, not one, traditional Stock Eliminator car in the entire country that even at sea level could possibly trigger a Tuesday morning HP hit. In fact 9.55 to 9.60 ( @ sea level) would be a killer lick in one of these A cars with 200-225 pounds of weight removed from it.
Sorry for the rant guys but your rationale for wanting to leave an unfair index in place so you don't have to worry about the possibility of getting HP is just plain ridiculous.
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Mike,
Let's say you get the index softened up to 10.80. Let's say you can run 10.00 in A at Indy if you decide to run A at Indy. You instead decide to run AA, you take out 200lbs. and now run 9.80 in AA...what's changed, you're still 1.00 under? How does softening the index change anything for you? You should have just stayed in A if qualifying is what you're after. Now, I don't want the 10.80 because I can run 9.60 and do so on a regular basis. (I'm not alone: Pond, Sorenson, McClanahan have and can anytime they wish out here in div. 7...I'm sure you know that, don't you?!?)
Why should those of us that actually run or have run in the 9.60's already have to go backwards just so a few A cars can qualify at Indy when and if they decide to run AA instead of A?
I may or may not qualify this year at Indy in AA...I can't run in A, I'm stuck in AA...will this keep me from going to Indy...nope. I go to Indy to run class and visit with old friends.
AA isn't for everyone. You better be prepared to do a lot of sorting thru convertor/gear stack/suspension components and power management in the first 100 ft. if you're running an automatic.
AA really isn't broken at this point as far as I can see and I haven't heard any chatter from the active players in the class that leads me to think it needs "fixed".
The least you could do for us that actually run in AA before you go off on a tangent is field a car in AA a few times in class eliminations running off a 10.60 index so we can see what you have up your sleeve. It's going to be a hard sell to NHRA to lower the index especially with all the 9.60 and one 9.58 pass in the books over the past several years. What facts can you come up with to support your request....a bunch of what ifs and maybe's isn't going to get very far.
I think the index is right where it should be in AA. I also think that running my car backed off all year long just so I'm guaranteed to qualify at Indy is lame.