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Originally Posted by Terry Knott
I know people NEVER want to hear this,but Class racing is a bracket race UNTIL you have a heads up run.
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Heads-up runs are part of class racing. (and as noted in another thread, I had advocated for years for things like combining sticks and automatics, consolidating weight breaks, etc., but ironically it was the "class racers" who ran away from any proposals that would potentially result in more heads-up runs.) That being said, you're right, in that there are FAR more dial-in match-ups than there are heads-up runs. We took our lumps (heads-up G/SA first round at Maple Grove), and dished them out (SportsNationals win). That's racing. The thing is, it didn't matter if we were -.35 under or -.75 under, we were going to lose that heads-up run.
You've made the car faster over the years, not because you're ever going to be the fastest in the class, but because you *wanted* to. I've done the same with the Volare. I've worked as my time and budget allows to make the car quicker and more consistent -- not because I'm under any illusion that I'd ever win Class, but because I enjoy it, and it makes me more competitive.
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Originally Posted by HR9121
If you are in one of the more populated classes like A,B and C or even G,H and I you might find yourself in it both ways or else you might be in the way!
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See above. Even in populated classes, there are far more dial-in runs than heads-ups. We ran F/SA and G/SA in NHRA.
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Originally Posted by joespanova
I don't see bracket racers as "performance " incentive .....for the most part they put a car together , or buy it , and let the cars performance take a back seat to perfect lights and dial ins. In other words , whatever it runs is good enough. Just dial it in.
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While their performance goals are different than class racing, today's bracket cars have very little in common with the run-what-you-brung, yeah-that's-good-enough-just-put-a-dial-on-it cars of yesteryear. There is a massive amount of science, technology, and strategy involved -- and some apply concepts from class racing as well. Bracket racers don't just magically go .00 and dead-on. It takes work.