AHFS Question

[bill dedman]

I have just one question, and it's not tied into the maze of the labyrinthine vagaries of the AHFS, except in a very basic, simple way.

It is this:

If a car, let's say Fred Henson's 'Cuda, for example, makes a run that is more than 1.40 under his index, and for whatever reason, that car isn't weighed (I don't think Fred's car was weighed after that fateful run) and his engine isn't torn down (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Fred tore it down for them), and that run is used to put in place a new factored horsepower number, isn't that assuming a LOT, that the car WAS of legal weight, AND that it had a bona-fide, 100-percent STOCK engine configuration, with LEGAL FUEL at the time that run was made????

How can NHRA install new horsepower factors on a car that they have NO IDEA of the legality of?

I'm sure Fred wouldn't run a light car, and just as sure that his engine wasn't 500 cubic inches, but HOW CAN NHRA KNOW THAT if they didn't weigh the car and tear the engine down, much less, check the fuel?

They can't.... but, that didn't keep them from destroying that combination as a viable race car with this system that automatically bestows egregious amounts of horsepower on cars that MAY, or MAY NOT be legal, if they don't check them thoroughly...

With VERY expensive race cars' viability at stake, how could they do that without ascertaining the legality of the car in question?

HOW?

Is this just another of their "YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID" deals???