index lowering

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by Bryan Worner

I?ve reviewed a few final qualifying sheets from this years races. There are not very many cars that can?t run .2 under in SS and .3 under in Stock. On the ones I?ve looked at, including the 128 qualified field at Maple Grove, take out the cars that lift during qualifying and broke, the number is a very small percentage of Stock and SS racers that would be over the index after those reductions. So I don?t see the argument of losing a bunch of racers if the indexes got lowered.

Maple Grove was near sea level all weekend where as Numidia is typically near 4,000' all weekend and consider Stock does their qualifying 9-10am, that same car can't run that number at 4pm in July.

[Bryan Worner]

Originally Posted by Paul Precht

Maple Grove was near sea level all weekend where as Numidia is typically near 4,000' all weekend and consider Stock does their qualifying 9-10am, that same car can't run that number at 4pm in July.

I looked at Numidia from this year. There were 6 cars that were .204 under and below. One is a stocker running SS, 2 or 3 lift during qualifying and 2 others were having problems. The guy I raced was one of them. Qualified with a 10.55 and ran in the 20?s against me first round. Again, the number that would be over the index on an all out run if .2 was taken off the indexes is minimal. Say what you want about overall car counts. Quotas at national events are almost alway over, turning racers away, and the LODRS races in most areas have over 50 cars in each category.