[bill dedman]

No, they race by rules. Not demographics.

Rules are there to ensure parity. It's a difficult and multi-faceted job, trying to maintain a level playing field.

"Because they can...." is only part of the sentence.

The rest of it, in, "Because they can, due to their ability to make their own "atmosphere" through boost levels that are not commensurate with what the engine saw when it was tested for output by the factory." That factory figure is thrown into a cocked hat when the boost is cranked up.

The result?

A percentage of #1 qualifiers at national events that is in no way relative to the "population" in the ranks of that type of car. If ten percent of the cars running are fuel injected, the reasonable expectation is that one in ten #1 qualifiers will be injected, or at least, somewhere around that figure.

This is not the case with the turbo cars, however; they qualify #1 at at least five times the number of national events that you'd expect them to, given their (population) "numbers."

I don't know why that syndrome isn't being played out at points races, but, it's not. I don't think that including those races into the "mix" condones what is happening at the nationaals, though. It's apples and oranges, to me.

Not much else to say; we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, Jim.

Happy boosting...