Vegas SS Qualifying - WOW!

[John Mason]

Remember, Vegas was a class race. Dan went 9.50 in Vegas with the heads up tune up and 9.46 at Pomona in race day mode. Same with several others I know of. Most SS'ers hold about .15 for heads up, which makes the factor about right.
That being said, for years I've advocated correcting all runs to a constant norm from track conditions for records and AHFS review as dynos do - say to 29.92 bar, 70 degrees and 20% humidy. We all do a version on it to dial our cars so let's have NHRA do it for those reasons. -600 feet at Houston and Atco corrected up, 11000 feet at Denver corrected down, etc.
A simple computer program to implement, could even print the DA on the time slip.
Too simple?

[Earle Holt]

Good post Stewart. I think the factor is off too.

One thing I don't understand is that everyone is saying that all runs should count...I'm glad the factored runs aren't! I wouldn't want my combo to get HP from an unrealistic run at a factored track. If the car can't run the number at sea level, then it shouldn't count for AHFS...the fact they can set a record like this is bad enough, don't make it worse!!