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Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Ellis, I'm not the one who threw out that 10% number.
BUT, when was the last time that a Racer was DQ.d for excessive braking? We have Racers coming on here all of the time complaining that S/SS are no longer "performance" based Eliminators and yet these same Racers are OK with "spot", "shift light", "RPM" or "time related" down-track dropping.
NHRA feels that it's a "safety" issue for my slow, V8 Stocker to not have an SFI flexplate in it. To not have one could kill or injure the Racer "in the other lane" (or a spectator).
BUT, a Racer in a 120+ to160+ MPH car can "play finish-line-games" with your 70 MPH car "in the other lane" and nothing can happen?!?

What ever happened to " Top Stock and Jr. Stock"? Condense the number of classes by a weight break change.
Three or four heads up class groupings with similar ET's and Speeds together, all heads up runs.
Then the eliminator winners race
In a dial race as we currently do.
This would get us back to what Drag racing was originally about.

Steve Teeter Stk B/SA 620