NHRA Changes the Rules Today

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton

The three speed rule applies next year.

OK, I gotcha. Brain fart! Jim

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[art leong]

Do you have to race this class? Or can you run AA, BB,CC, Etc.?
If the rules are such as you can win don't run the class. No reason to run a class with a stiff index just to lose. And maybe not get to race on raceday.
I really know nothing about this but that makes sense to me.

[Jeff Teuton]

Art, you are right, and I'm sure if nothing changes we will be in BB or CC. We are unloading the car right now, and putting it on the scales and see what we can do. Mark you probably feel like I did with my 69 6-Pak everytime I rolled up against a 396. I got no help or sympathy from anyone. It did pretty wheel stand pictures though. That is why I proposed a 5% reduction for all older than 2008. Easy to do on Excel from what people with a higher grade level tell me.

[James L Miller]

The only reason to run a class where you have no chance is make one run for NHRA's database to prove you can't run the numbers and maybe they will adjust the weight breaks down the road. If no one in a DP makes a run, then I'd bet they leave the breaks where they are now.

[Andrew Hill]

Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton

Mark you probably feel like I did with my 69 6-Pak everytime I rolled up against a 396. I got no help or sympathy from anyone.

That's like comparing a small hill with Mt. Everest.

That is why I proposed a 5% reduction for all older than 2008. Easy to do on Excel from what people with a higher grade level tell me.

Why reduce the HP on 95% of the cars instead of raising the other 5%?

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hill

That's like comparing a small hill with Mt. Everest.



Why reduce the HP on 95% of the cars instead of raising the other 5%?

Makes too much sense.

[Joseph Teuton]

Why reduce the HP on 95% of the cars instead of raising the other 5%?[/QUOTE]

Because the 95% are the ones complaining. So fix the ones that complaing. =) Plus it's all done by excel so it's just as easy to do 95% as it is to do the 5%.

Just like we are not asking to take away the three speeds from the CJ's and COPO's, we are asking to give us one!

[Jeff Teuton]

Your on-the-scene reporter has unraveled the problem. First it's fixed, Thanks NHRA. On May 9, a proposal for the Shootout was done and sent to the manufactureres. The weight was 3575, which was too much. After discussions, it was reduced to 3475 and posted on the tech site on June 18. When the adddition of the pro tree and a couple of other things were done, the weights from May 9 were picked up instead of June 18. Mystery solved. My blood pressure has now returned. Perhaps I overacted a bit, but I am pleased to announce it was handled poste haste (thats right now for you non-belivers). Now as far as the other age old discussions on here, they are like crabgrass, just won't go away. Next year we (and anyone else) have the three speed, so that is good. I had a good discussion with Glen Gray and Bruce Bachelder of NHRA as well as numerous e-mails with Pat in California. I ruffled some feathers for which I apologize. Maybe I was too involved in trying to get 5 cars to BG and Indy, and get over the martinis I was having when my son called and said we got 100 lbs added. The problem is fixed and the communication lines are wide open. Thanks.

[Dyno]

Hopkins ran in C/SA with his 13 Mustang/5.0 at BIR