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[art leong]

Originally Posted by Harry 6674

During the 70s when we started running off indexes was when the sandbagging really started because of easy index numbers. Running off the records meant if you couldn't set the record you didn't lift. I couldn't set records so I run it all out. Once in a while the record holders would back out some to keep from lowering the record and you could sneek by.

Those years remember people going the Suffolk Va. To set records in classes they wouldn't run in during the season. Do a body switch or a cam change. So the competition would have a tuff go of it. It was worst then than comp is now with the cic. a lot of stuff went on back then. Sandbagging isn't a new thing.
When they went to the indexes it got rid of a lot of the sandbagging. But some of the soft combos dominated.
That was real racing. If only NHRA would have properly torn down the faster cars (there was a big discrepancy division to division). And kept up with factoring.
It would have keep costs down. How much can a valve job and a shave cost? But the racers screwed that up.