1.50 Under Before Getting Horsepower?

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

Posted by Patsy:


Rumor heard today: Indexes drop by .50 next year. Trigger point -1.00 under.

I'll believe it when I see it. Car counts are down now, loosing the slower cars will take more money out of their pockets. I don't see it happening.

[Greg Hill]

If this is the case the only combinations capable of getting hp are the new mustangs and challengers.

[Curt Rees]

I'se be one of the slow ones, I'se be done if they drop the index .50. I'se be do this for fun, I'se do not do this so I can bitch about everything that goes on!

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Curt Rees

Ps Geez, I am having a tantrum, must be the South Dakota water!

[mannymen]

I mentioned two weeks ago already that TD and TS will be in permanently within the next few years and that SS and Stock will be phased out of Natl Events altogether. NHRA's thinking is that we are a hassle with all of this AFHS crap, TEARDOWN costs and complaining. Squeaky wheels will eventually be replaced.

NHRA can save themselves time and some money by cutting costs at the scales, fuel check and in the teardown barn.

Plus the ignorant fans only want to see SPEED

[X-TECH MAN]

[QUOTE=mannymen; NHRA's thinking is that we are a hassle with all of this AFHS crap, TEARDOWN costs and complaining. Squeaky wheels will eventually be replaced.

NHRA can save themselves time and some money by cutting costs at the scales, fuel check and in the teardown barn.

[/QUOTE]

Yep.....Its coming even if you dont think so right now. The modified guys didnt think they would be replaced with S/G and S/C years ago either. After qualifying is over in T/S and T/D they dont even need to fuel check or weigh the high dollar bracket cars any more. Its just a dial in bracket race after that.

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

Yep.....Its coming even if you dont think so right now. After qualifying is over in T/S and T/D they dont even need to fuel check or weigh the high dollar bracket cars any more. Its just a dial in bracket race after that.

Terry,

Don't give them any ideas or they will begin making you file a protest fee to weigh a competitiors car!

Sadly, you may be correct on the cost issue but I gotta tell you, after watching some of the faster .90 cars coast until the 330' clocks at Joliet (about right where the spectator stands end for the most part) I'd see them just having the T/S and T/D cars. The fans didn't even see those .90 cars under power!!

Could they just run Stock eliminator the same way as T/S & T/D? All run, and all dial in. Only having tech at "class eliminator races"? You could start a new career as a tech man...

[chevy620]

Have Class Elims at one ot two Nationals per division.
At other events make it a dial-in race, like it is now... BUT... eliminate the heads-up races during eliminations. I think more guys would run Stock and S/Stock if they didn't have to deal with being killed in a head-up run with a guy who can slaughter the index but doesn;t have to drive that round.
Probably not a popular response on this site, but we need to do something before the Classes no longer exist.

Now is the time to get some fresh ideas out there. Monitoring every car, every pass is not going to continue in my opinion, this is just one of many options to consider.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

Terry,
You could start a new career as a tech man...

LOL.....Nope, never, nadda, not gonna happen....lots of better things to do. I ALMOST screwed up and started a sportsman association with Alex but after all of the complaining I see on here I figured it wasnt worth the grief. Besides with the economy they way it is I dont think its a good idea right now.