Wondering what stock racers think

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

The indexes were lowered 3 tenths several years ago and it hurt the car counts. Some of the low budget guys parked their cars after that enhancement. I don't think lowering the indexes is a good idea. The smart move is for NHRA to better monitor the performance of the cars that consistently run at the top of the sheet and apply good sense in the factoring.

Agreed! Great post.

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I have never understood the logic behind lowering indexes. As others have said, it eliminates the poor guys who don't have a lot of money, but want to experience the pride of making their low-buck stuff capable of running the index, and therefore, able to compete. So a guy runs 1.10 under; who cares? If somebody else runs 1.11 under, he qualifies below him. It has always seemed to me like NHRA has deemed 1.0 second under to be some kind of arbitrary "threshold". The only remotely justifiable argument for lower indexes is that it "keeps out the riff-raff", and I consider that to be nothing more than arrogance on the part of the racers who feel that way. Indexes will NEVER eliminate sandbagging.