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Originally Posted by Mike Pearson
I dont know about the rest of you But my combo has taken 2 HP hits in the last two seasons. It is not one of the obscure under factored combos like Bob Dennis runs. It is a 350 295/318 motor. now you want to shove another 2 tenths on us. That is the dumbist thing I have heard in a while. First of all that will not do anything for sand bagging. That has always been going on. If the sand baggers would just run their cars to there potential then the AFHS would work in its present state. The problem is not with the AFHS. its with the drivers that try to manipulate it by brake light racing. If you like hitting your brakes go circle track racing. The only thing lowering the indexes will accomplish is to keep new racers from building cars and starting to race S/SS. I know when I started running super stock it took quite a few years to make my car run consistently under the index. I guess all the old timers forget what it was like when yhey started out. Right now the car counts are way down. we need some real enhancements instead of something that will hurt our type of racing
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Mike.....if the sandbaggers that run your combo ran all out, you would have even more horsepower!!! Lowering the indexes won't hurt anybody....but like previously mentioned, there has to be something done with the automatic trigger and how far under you must run to win class. If they lower the indexes .2 then we should do away with having to run .5 under to win class and the AHFS trigger should be 1.20 under, or maybe even lower.
I still believe we need to bring weather conditions into the equation! If we're making this performance based and don't want sandbagging, then we need to consider runs in both mineshaft conditions as well as real slow conditions. If someone runs 1.30 under at -800 ft DA, should that be considered the same as running 1.30 under at 3000 ft DA??? NO! So why penalize someone for racing in mineshaft conditions, especially at low altitude tracks! And why not penalize them for going that fast in dog**** conditions?