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Originally Posted by Charley Downing
Bruce having FS/X cars at Indy in stock did not change the bump one .01 all those cars that were at the top of the sheet would have still ran -.85 under or more so who cares who's at the top of the sheet. They all run in FS which is not your class. All that matters is who is the last guy standing at the end of the day holding the trophy
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For what it's worth, if the AHFS had been in effect for Gainesville last year, the FS/A and FS/B (now FS/XX and FS/X) would have been 9.60 and 9.85 instead of 10.10 and 10.35. How many of those cars would have been .88+ under with .5 tougher indexes?
Obviously, we will never know if Barton and Holbrook would have gone 1.60+ and 1.55+ under in Gainesville had the AHFS been in effect, but assuming all runs were the same, with AHFS, those would have been the indexes.
Going to answer my own question here. It looks like 18 of the 25 FS cars that qualified for indy last year would not have qualified. (I assume many would not have run the FS classes at those indexes, and would have run their normal classes instead).