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Originally Posted by Tony Curcio
1.15 under will seem ridiculously soft in another 3 to 5 years. When AHFS started gathering stats in 2001, it was relatively rare. This is the real problem with a fixed and apparently arbitrary benchmark.
It wasn't that long ago that only the top 10 or 15 cars qualified at 1.00 under or more. This year, I distinctly remember running .99 under at a divisional somewhere, and finding myself below 50th in a full field.
If the trigger point is too low, it discourages performance, too high it it doesn't correct HP. The trigger point needs to move along with the racers' capabilities.
A statistical average, median, or bell-curve will fix this. The more runs that are included, the better it will work.
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shows that the system is a total failure?? lowering the indexes accomplish the same thing?whats the point to run 2 sec. under the index in another 10 years?well it makes it easier to bracket race ofcourse..a higer trigger point probably never will be needed but if a future lowering of the indexes would show that..fine...the body speficic hp changes is really the biggest problem with AHFS,,NHRA has let it go to insanity...dont know if theres a way to go back?... going back to the old eng specific hp changes could make this peekaboo...hide and seek..well almost all games we see ..go away..