[Stevie Ficacci]

weve heard some really good suggestions concerning some of the problems with the AHFS. i think everyone needs to realize that any system we use will never be perfect.my opinion would be that if all the cars in a certian class can be factored within a tenth of each other, it would be as good as it can get.
any number we use to start triggering is really meaningless. the cars that are in danger of hitting this trigger will just slow there cars down to keep themselve below it. aside from heads up runs and trying to qualify for indy (maybe), any data put into the system will be false as the cars will only be going as fast as the owner care to show. therefore the only people who get hp will be someone who had a heads up, or some one who went to fast carelessly. (its a shame in a "perfomance" class that we are all not going as fast as we can, or get called "brain dead "D**k Slingers", "DONKEY" and "MORON". these quotes were lifting from posts this past week referring to people who actually "race" thier "racecars".)
i think we can all agree that a cars true potential is only really shown during heads up runs. these runs are the ones that need to be used during the AHFS. the only problem with this is that only about half the classes have enough cars in them to be seriously in danger of having a heads up run. according to my most recent nitro joe's, 23 classes have 21 or more cars and 46 have 21 or less cars. i use 21 because that would average 3 cars per division in that particular class. next year when the classes are combined (FI and carbs) these numbers change to 21 classes with 21+cars and 25 with 21 or less cars. so only about half of the classes "might" have a heads up run where they show the true potential of thier cars.
for example i race in F and G/SA. currently the 2 biggest classes in stock and regularly have around 10 cars each in division 1 at any race. I went to 12 races and went a few rounds but only had 2 heads up runs, the only time all year i "may" have needed to show the true potential of my car. many racers can go all whole year or years without a heads up run.
this is the biggest flaw with the AHFS. there is no good data to work from because all the cars in "bracket mode". for some it is alot and for some it may be very little.
realistically a guy with an good running car will get himself hp by running his car hard. but guys with soft combos and fast cars dont get hit because they have no reason to show thier hand.