To: Austin Ford From: Bill Hawk

[Rich Biebel]

For those not old enough to recall the old stock eliminator.....you were handicapped off the national records. Class winners and low qualifiers made up the eliminator field. Many racers could run under their records and some cars could really bomb the records but usually did not unless there was an eliminator title on the line Yes records counted during big races for a while if it was a final. Setting a record counted for division points......ET or Mph and seperately at one time. People used to just "nip" their record to get the points. Rules were often different at various tracks and events. Some tracks raced under the rules that you could not go under your record by more than a tenth and win except the final.....or even 2 tenths......All this needed changing and the index system was a real good way to do it. It just has not been upraded with the cars performane of today and the AHFS seems like it was a good attempt at evening out the cars that were way off HP wise.....It appears to be causing the class to look foolish with all the shutting off runs at times at a fast race like Indy just was.


No I don't race a stocker anymore but I am an interested observer and have raced a few stockers over the years...,,,and still enjoy watching the category and the cars......

[LilBlueDeuce]

Bill...that is what I meant. Thanks for the correction. I am 0 for 2 today.

Rich...thanks for the further explanation of how things used to be. It sounds like even back then, sandbagging was a part of class racing.

I still love watching Stock and SuperStock. It is just more fun watching them run out the back door.

[bill dedman]

No problem... I love those '32 Fords....