Can anyone tell me????

[Frank B.]

So Dwight K/SA falls under the Billy Lynn index lol

[bill dedman]

Thanks for the explanations, especially Dwight's, which is probably the one closest to how this situation actually came about, along with Alan's....

Neither seems to have much to recommend it as regards logic in keeping it in today's environment. I'm not sure exactly who is suppose to benefit from its skewed mathematics, now, and I'd bet even money that things being what they are (currently), were it not for the monumental amount of inertia that exists in correcting "mistakes" of this kind, it might well be gone.... replaced by a more even-handed .15 approach.

I don't understand why NHRA hangs onto this sort of inequity, when the original reason(s) for its existence would seem to have disappeared.

But, that's just NHRA., I guess...

[Michael Beard]

Try NHRA's FWD class weight breaks!

[bill dedman]

Michael,

I'm sure there is a lot to examine in that area, too; but this Index business sticks out like a sore thumb, and actually looks more like a typo than anything else. Makes it unnecessarily hard to qualify for Indy with an A/SA car, I would think... but some get it done. It helps if you have a new, paper/crate-motor, car with an Alice in Wonderland HP factor...

[Dwight Southerland]

I remember campaigning my Camaro in A & B. It was a hell of a B car but a stretch of an A car. I worked to make it competitive in A because I wanted to. I knew the advantages of putting it in B, but that old ego just had to buck the physics. I held the B record within .03 and .5 mph of my A record, but still would keep in in A. My choice. Things are the same today.

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Frank B.

So Dwight K/SA falls under the Billy Lynn index lol

Actually, the K-L deal was because there were very few cars in K and lots of hot dog 283s in L. Remember, this was before you could jump classes like you can today.