To all you INTELLECTUALS (B Parker)

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

If not the AHFS then what?
What I'm hoping for is that a few Old Timers will get on here and explain to the geniuses who don't like (or agree) with the way HP hits are handled now how it was done in the "Good-old-days" before Nitro Joe's and the internet. When you went through Tech and were told that your combo got 5-10-15 HP this week (back then, Tech liked nice, round numbers, no 2-3) and your combo runs this class and weighs this much now.

Would I like to see changes to the AHFS? Sure I would but I don't believe that the Tech Dept. has the time or manpower right now to "fix" it.
I think that it would be great to have some kind of an independent auditor handle it but I can't imagine who or what that would be and I don't believe that the NHRA would allow an outside contractor to handle it anyway.

Come on you Old Poops, remind us what it used to be like in the Good-old-days.

For the rest of you intellectuals, let's hear your excuses.

I guess I'm qualified to respond to this
I can remember when Gary Wood left New York in J/SA, and by the time they got to Pomona, they were in I/SA! Nobody wants that..I don't think.
But what DO most people want? GP just made a point about raising the trigger.
I would do it a different way..I'd lower the indexes about a tenth every three years, until they stop giving away goodies at NHRA..Trigger stays the same.
Only problem with that is our local S/SS Combo series needs all the cars it can get and I wouldn't wanted to anyone left out at the bottom.
Of course , local races can use whatever they want, including the old IHRA + .3 indexes.
If I had a common combination and was in the middle of the pack, I'd want the trigger raised so I had a chance to catch up.
If I had a one of a kind combo in a popular class, I'd probably want the 1.20 under trigger to remain, plus the AHFS at Indy.
I think we need to get everybody on the same page before we can address the problem. It ain't gonna happen, but we can sure beat it around for several pages, here ;-)