CLASS RACER FORUM - View Single Post - Word is 1.15 under for AHFS at Opens and Divisional races

Bob Orme · 11-29-2007, 02:15 AM

While I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm around all of you guys every year, and perhaps can lend a perspective point of view from the outside that isn't corporate.

No AHFS during qualifying at any event. If there must be an AHFS hit after an event, it should be triggered during any elimination round -- Divisional or National, regular or class, but not Opens. Getting hit with horsepower at an event that will only earn you grade points wouldn't make any sense at all.

Running STK and SS exactly like Comp would make sense to me in some respects. ...mostly because I understand Comp. But, doing so would park a boatload of race cars and drivers who have been racing under the dial-in elimination rules for many years. The classes really are bracket classes the way things are set up today. You have to dial in, hit the tree and race the stripe to win.

If, as some have suggested, the quotas for National events shrink to 64, then I'd say run 'em like Comp, with CIC's during the event and levy permanent hits the following week on those killing the index.

Adjustments at altitude factored tracks......what would really be fair? An adjustment running under the factored index, or an adjustment only when running under the non-factored index? I don't think either one is fair, given the antiquity of the altitude factors and the variable air available at every track, be they at altitude or not. Maybe, add .20 to the hit number at a factored track to get a hit. I don't know -- just offering a suggestion.

Whatever happens or doesn't happen, I hope it keeps the most cars and drivers on the strip as is possible.

11-29-2007, 02:15 AM	#84
Bob Orme Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 47 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Word is 1.15 under for AHFS at Opens and Divisional races While I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm around all of you guys every year, and perhaps can lend a perspective point of view from the outside that isn't corporate. No AHFS during qualifying at any event. If there must be an AHFS hit after an event, it should be triggered during any elimination round -- Divisional or National, regular or class, but not Opens. Getting hit with horsepower at an event that will only earn you grade points wouldn't make any sense at all. Running STK and SS exactly like Comp would make sense to me in some respects. ...mostly because I understand Comp. But, doing so would park a boatload of race cars and drivers who have been racing under the dial-in elimination rules for many years. The classes really are bracket classes the way things are set up today. You have to dial in, hit the tree and race the stripe to win. If, as some have suggested, the quotas for National events shrink to 64, then I'd say run 'em like Comp, with CIC's during the event and levy permanent hits the following week on those killing the index. Adjustments at altitude factored tracks......what would really be fair? An adjustment running under the factored index, or an adjustment only when running under the non-factored index? I don't think either one is fair, given the antiquity of the altitude factors and the variable air available at every track, be they at altitude or not. Maybe, add .20 to the hit number at a factored track to get a hit. I don't know -- just offering a suggestion. Whatever happens or doesn't happen, I hope it keeps the most cars and drivers on the strip as is possible.