Combine sticks & automatics

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

How about 1 pound weight breaks starting at 7.0 for AA and going up to 23.0 instead?

I had plans of the same wt breaks. 1 pound breaks with stick and auto together heads up (7 tru 20 somthing) AND allowing 5 hp per wt.break difference for stick vs auto. Example......8 lb break auto car would recieve 40 lb break (8 x 5 hp) over the same class stick car. further down a 15 lb break car (15 x 5 HP) would recieve a 75 break over a same class car with a stick. Same thing through all of the wt. breaks. A 23 lb class break auto car would recieve 115 lb break over a same class car with a stick. Same deal for S/S cars. Maybe 5 HP would not be enough but it was a place to start until it could be fine tuned. Both stick and auto would have the SAME HP factors with this plan. Its a moot point as I dont think a sportsman association is in the cards. Even the mighty NHRA cannot draw a good car counts except for INDY and some Div. 1 races.