1.20 under at Belle Rose

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by HR9121

Mineshaft yes but 1.20 under is still an instant hit ofcourse. From what I was told the weather was it was incredibly fast and all I can say is under those circumstances he may have not known how fast he was going.

OK. I thought that was the reason for the "Mineshaft rule" to keep the combos from getting hit when the conditions were stupid fast like this past weekend. I didn't realize that if you still went 1.2 under you got hit with instant HP when the class met the mineshaft requirement . That probably needs to be changed.

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

OK. I thought that was the reason for the "Mineshaft rule" to keep the combos from getting hit when the conditions were stupid fast like this past weekend. I didn't realize that if you still went 1.2 under you got hit with instant HP when the class met the mineshaft requirement . That probably needs to be changed.

The ahfs is a flawed system as it is. There is no need to weaken it any further. But racers do need to use some common sense when in mineshaft conditions.

[rognelson777]

i am still amazed in this day and age the only thing nhra uses is ET to change indexes. they need to use horsepower correction factor along with the ET that was run.
With the weather reading/ tracking technology that has evolved since the 1970's i have to believe there is a realative easy way to establish a system to decide if it was just great conditions or a great run.
as someone who raced on 0 elevation tracks (atco et al)and then going to indy, 1000ft +/- , can see there needs to be some way to level the numbers.
and i know there will still be arguements, but with hand held weather station devices able to calculate correction factors on the spot, there has to be a way to make it work 99pct of the time.

[James Perrone]

The only problem I see is the car was on kill. And it shows
Now a little self control would have helped.
I will never understand why someone would try to go that fast you got a put a limit on yourself

[Larry Hill]

Sorensen got a free pass at the scales for being light at a D6 race. I forgot how it went, but heard the car ran fast enough to suck all the water out of the radiator.

[HR9121]

Larry that's not the one I was thinking about there was someone who went fast out there last year but lost some weight in the bushes at end of the track or something.

[nhramnl]

I always remember the Chevy 400 combination. Started at 280 horsepower, back when Mike and Ezra first ran one. By the time I gave up on it (in a Camaro, not that the body mattered), they were at 326. At 280, you could go a second under with plug wires off. At 326, you couldn't go a second under, falling to the ground from a skyscraper.

[Race Clean]

Originally Posted by James Perrone

I will never understand why someone would try to go that fast you got a put a limit on yourself

Exactly,why try to go fast in Dragracing