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Originally Posted by Frank Castros
Personally as a fan and no longer a racer I like to see performance and loath when racers de-tune their cars to protect their combinations for what? What are you saving it for? Why are racers making deals to race to 1000 feet during class eliminations?
For old school guys like me it makes me question why you guys do this crap.
Let it fly!
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Frank, lets say you are running your Mopar in B/SA, and you are 3 or 4 tenths behind, so you spend 4 or 5k on a set of cylinder heads, 6k on a pro trans, maybe 3k on a set up modern pistons and rings. So now your 13 or 14k investment puts you in a spot where you are competitive with most of the other B cars. Would you now qualify .90 under at most races, hit the 1 second under trigger a couple times, just to be rewarded with a hp adjustment at the end of the year? Once that happens a couple times, you run out of modern rule updates to spend your money on. Or do you run the car heavy with timing knocked out until you have a heads up, or want to qualify higher in the ladder, or make the field at Indy? Some of these combos dont have the luxury of a replacement carb, heads, block, cranks with smaller journal rods etc.
Make the quotas at races larger so you have to qualify to get in, award points for records at races that count towards afhs, and or give points to top qualifiers and you may see the fast cars show what they have at times.