[Spring Fling]

Class Racer's are very passionate about Stock and Super Stock as seen in this topic and others in the past.

Peter and I felt it was time to level the playing field at our Spring Fling events and thought it was time to make this worst red light change. While this scenario (double red) may only play out say in 1-1.5% of all "top bulb" pairs that is still needed to be changed. When timing systems were first built they only had the ability to see the first red, so that's why we see it this way decades later.

We also want to see Bracket Racing stay as healthy and cost effective as possible as the ets are getting quicker and quicker. With this change we felt that it could possibly get the cost down long term with a more level playing field.

I totally realize that Stock and Super Stock are performance based classes and that the change to these classes might be a little tougher but I feel that it's for the better of the classes long term.

Let's take Stock for instance. There has been a big change over the past decade with the influx of factory stock cars. I'm sure some will debate this but for the most part these cars are faster and more consistent then your traditional "muscle cars". At Indy this year at the US Nationals the ave handicap in Stock first round was 1.32 seconds in the 64 pairs contested. This will only get bigger over the next decade and I feel that a small change like this will only help the class long term.

Thanks for listening and good luck to all.
-Kyle Seipel