Wondering what stock racers think

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by HawkBrosMav

I for one agree the AFHS is very problematic and easily manipulated to maintain your combos competitiveness for class. It's also a stupid system that only punishes those who have found the most HP in their car. So it basically discourages us all from working to get faster and faster cause we we'll all then have to slow our stuff down so we don't have to add weight. I'm sure it hasn't been this way forever, but I haven't been involved long enough to know how it used to be...

As bad as it is, the AHFS is much better than the system that we had. Under the old system, you were basically handed out 5 and 10 HP gifts by the NHRA inspectors whenever it was deemed necessary with no real system in place other that who went fast when and who your buddies were. But you also have to remember that the handicaps were figured off of the National Records and if you won but went a tenth under the Record, you lost. So it was still break-out racing.
My biggest issue with the AHFS is that the numbers can be manipulated too easily.