Vegas SS Qualifying - WOW!

[Mark Yacavone]

Isaac, The AHFS was in place then. Afterwards, the "not at altitude" clause was added.
Guess what ? The rule correction was not made retroactive. No surprise there.

[Big Road]

Jeff Iam sorry that I didnt put all the facts in the first post but here goes indy 72 temp,77 humidity.29.10 bar Vegas 84 temp.16 humidity.27.80 bar I understand the reality of the change of seasons but what is the differance if you go 1 second when your air is good and 8 tenths when the air is bad everone is at the same track at the same time as of a performance standpoint. But when you set a record at a factored track and go better than 1.40 under where does that leave the people at a regular tracks Is that a fair playing field

[Jeff Lee]

Big,
Looking at the weather numbers it's just as I thought. Personally, I'd rather have the Vegas conditions than the Indy conditions you noted. And I think I would also like the Vegas track surface over the Vegas track surface. As I said earlier, I've not had the pleasure of racing at Indy. But as most racer's, dream of going and doing well there someday.
Yes, sometimes the weather is favorable to the racer at an altitude track. And it does hurt somebody else I suppose. But then again, I've never had the pleasure of racing at sea level conditions much less those -800 conditions. I really think it all balances out in the end. Those roads all connect you know...

Good racing to ya'!

[Isaac Zane]

So it does sound like there have been zero adjustments at alt. tracks since they added in the No alt. tracks or runs count.

Jeff,

Just to correct you, we never did sandbag the car until we got HP off. We only got HP off after they decided that the 71-72 350's got HP off and we asked for the same. When we first started running our car, we barely ran under the index. The first 1.5+ years of running the car, it was barely a -.5 player and still finished in the Top 10 even after losing ALL of our heads-up runs. After working, adjusting, HP adjustment, tuning and some better parts the car was almost able to run -1.00. After more work by B&B Automotive Machine in Lynnbrook, NY and even better parts we finally became a top half player. And the -1.18 run was THIS year in great air where many cars were better than -1.2, hardly rubbing their noses in it. Our earlier HP hit was fron E-town in what Warren Johnson called "once in a hundred years" great air. We got hit in great air, those at Alt. tracks should have to deal with getting hits in their great air also. Also, we are not now at less HP then when we started. Jeff, you lost that bet also!


Yes, we thought we had that one freebie also, but then they added in the family deal.

I just think that they should include ALL RUNS EVERYWHERE in their HP system. And then probably throw in a little common sense. (An Oxymoron??)

[Isaac Zane]

Hey, I gotta new rule!

How about if you only attend one Nat'l event per half, you lose your "freebie". That one counts!

Maybe we could expand that down to div. events also. No Nat'ls, div counts.