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Originally Posted by art leong
I have one question? Is there anyone that can not run the index, due to the horsepower hit? You might lose an advantage in class, But these cars can still go fast enough to win an event.
This IS a performance based eliminator.
I think the AHFS is a good idea, BUT they should tear cars down for the automatic stuff. And they should altitude correct all runs, including altitude factored tracks.
I remember the "GOOD OLD DAYS" when the OUIJA (pronouned WE-GEE) BOARD or the DART BOARD were the main source of the fickle finger of factor.I remember engines getting horsepower when there were 2 or 3 faster combos in the same class. Just because they were'nt politically correct.
And I'm not being a crybaby because the combo we ran never got factored.
I think you will see more guys quitting because of sandbagging than the economy. What fun is it to run to 1000 ft and shut down or run 300 pounds heavy.
This is supossed to be racing not coordinated swimming
This is why I'll never go back to a horsepower oriented class. If my index gets hit everyone in the class has to work harder.
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Art, the complaint, and it is legitimate, is that while some of the cars that got HP are fast, other cars that are even faster did not get HP. It's not that they lost an advantage, it's that the faster cars just gained again, and the cars that got hit are at an even bigger disadvantage. If you were already around a tenth behind, and suddenly NHRA hung 5HP on you at 8# per HP, then you'd be unhappy as well.
I'm not crying either. Neither of our cars got hit. One reason we don't run a 396 is because there are so many of them and they get hit fairly often. One reason those of us who lobbied for the AA classes also asked for a two tenth lower index is to allow the cars to run. NHRA actually asked us what we felt the index should be, and rather than 11.10, we asked for 10.90, the vote was nearly unanimous, I think only one person dissented.