Monday Morning Horsepower?

[Ed Wright]

Then it's just ET brackets. That ain't racing.

[Dan Lattimore]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Then it's just ET brackets. That ain't racing.

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[F/SA TSM]

Stock Class engine rules will remain and first qualifier will get bye run with impair field. What are benefits with heads up?

[Larry Hill]

The smile on your face after the run!

[Michael Beard]

Part of the "platform" issue is that some combinations receive horsepower while the same engine in a different body does not. The HP factor is an expression of an engine potential. An engine either has a certain power potential or it does not. The idea that an engine can receive HP hits in one body and it somehow makes sense that you can move that drivetrain to another body to start over with a clean slate on HP factoring is nonsensical.

While you can obviously argue that one 'platform' *utilizes* that HP more efficiently than another, it is logical that if a HP factor is raised on an engine in one platform, it should be raised on all platforms: perhaps just by a different amount. The proper way to do it would be to have the same HP across the board for a given engine combination, adjusted by a 'platform factor'. Unfortunately, this is little more than an academic discussion, despite it not really being much more complicated than they've already made it.

'Course you also have several classes in which sticks and automatics are run combined, where the automatics get a weight break in some classes, but not in others. Figure that out.

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by F/SA TSM

Stock Class engine rules will remain and first qualifier will get bye run with impair field. What are benefits with heads up?

Stock is a performance based class. Heads-up runs are the best part. Take them away and we might as well just run the local bracket race.

[hadtobethere]

Originally Posted by GUMP

Stock is a performance based class. Heads-up runs are the best part. Take them away and we might as well just run the local bracket race.

What he said!!!

[Jeff Teuton]

What he said X 2. Is that correct. Actually I like no platform, motor only. What has evolved is since platforms were made part of the program, like the LS1 in the Vette is 35 or so less than the Camaro. It's called "Pick & Choose Platforms" so now you can pick your friends, your nose, and your platform. Maybe not in that order.