[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by Mike Carr

There were sixty-seven (67) new cars at Indy. Of them, fifty-eight (58) made the 128 car field (all in the top 117). So only nine (9) new cars DNQ'd. And two of those broke early in qualifying (Skillman on the first run) or they undoubtedly would have made the field.

Also of note, twenty-one (21) cars made a run fast enough (-1.20 or more under) to receive horsepower. And only five (5) of them actually got it, since those five were in their natural class (three new cars, two older trucks). So sixteen (16) cars got a free pass.

Had the AHFS applied to all cars, would all the FSS cars qualified? I would bet almost every dollar I own that they would have. They merely would have just run quick enough to make the show (-.882 bump). The FSS cars would have just gone -1.02, -1.05 or whatever to make the show. The sixteen cars that never got HP that should have would have still been in; they just wouldn't all have been at the top; nineteen [19] of the top twenty-four [24] qualifiers were in a FSS class, and thus exempt from HP (and sixteen of those nineteen should have received it for a more-than -1.20 under run).

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...r2014#indextop

Thank you - that is exactly my point - they would have still qualified .........