So at first, I was only going to say something about how I thought Ned Walliser was the guy taking credit for the weekly FSS "pulley parity" adjustments.
But while fact checking myself, I stumbled onto this from 2018. You can interpret it as you see fit. At a minimum, maybe it answers one or two of Mark's original questions!
https://www.nhra.com/news/2018/nhra-...two-promotions