Yet another bogu horsepower factor

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Hold on a sec, let me check my wallet... Hm. Somehow, it appears that this "opportunity" isn't available to me. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd have one of each. That still wouldn't make them factored right or put them in the right class.

Of course it is! You could take out a loan, sell the house, cars, dogs, etc........( Just kidding. )

Ok, so I may not have worded it quite right. But it would not have been a good business move by Chrysler to make them "affordable to everyone". They appear to have planned on building the number of cars they felt they could sell without losing money.

If I read correctly, Jeffs car is one of 3 ordered with the 5.9. The 6.1's haven't been quite as big an issue because the HP seems to be a little bit closer to what it should be and there are other new Challengers and Mustangs to run against. But if Jeff hadn't ordered that 3rd 5.9, someone else could have and nothing changes! Gaining a competitive edge (preferably) under the rules is in the nature of a racer. Unfortunately, some can afford to pay for this edge and others can't. It will likely get worse when the other Mustang combos come out and will cover many more classes, including "H"!

I can understand the frustration of having almost no chance heads-up against a very mis-factored combo. But as it's been pointed out many times, the blame falls on NHRA. Perhaps the manufacturers share some of the blame because it's in their best interest to have their new cars out there! But they are looking at it from a business standpoint. Can you blame them? NHRA has still wandered away from what it was originally designed for. Now it all boils down to money for them.