Live from las vegas

[Strittan]

Originally Posted by deuces wild

What is the altitude of this track? I'm seeing posted 2800ft. Im sure this is corrected. I'm asking because the indexes are .25 or so higher at Vegas. 2800 ft isn't bad at all. We ran in 3900ft of air at Dallas this year.

It's 2100ft. I thought it was .15 higher indexes at this race. I'm sure Super Gas had a 10.05 index at Las Vegas a couple of years ago however (seen it on youtube, lol).

[Tom P]

Google Earth shows the starting line as 2003 feet but that may be before any earthmoving to build the track. They didn't build it up any higher.

Some pretty stout numbersm i see the SS/AH is listed at 9.84 at altitude, so what's the new Sea Level index?

[Jared Jordan]

Well, for all you Cobra Jet "fans" out there, they'll be getting some HP on Monday.

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
4135 Brent Hajek
C1 ****WINNER**** 0.392 9.867 134.85
A/SA Index: 11.58 (+/-): -1.713

That's -1.433 under the sea level A/SA index. Even though they're running at altitude it results in an automatic hit.

For those that are curious, it corrects to a 9.627.

[Alkey Alex]

Brent Hajek went 9.867@134.85 in A/SA (-1.713 under the index) with a .392 light against Bill Howell (MOV: 0.699) in the first round of class & still is able to get the win! That’s getting it done! Chad Holzman went 9.962@133.67 (-1.618 under the index) right in front of him! I know this is Vegas, but where is the line for getting horsepower on Monday at a factored track?

[Bob Mulry]

Class Day Comments............

The 08 Blower Fords have made a joke of Stock Eliminator......they just let the other car and drive around them.......they ran fast enough to get a 3.25% HP hit for running more than 1.40 under the sea level index......nice cars but they don't belong in stock with the joke HP rating they have........maybe like the FI cars the system will finally catch up with them in 5 or 6 years and have them race with the proper HP rating.

Here are some pix from today and I even got a shot of Terry Andersons SS/H car as requested

Friday is a day off for Stock & Super Stock other than teardowns.....

If I find out anything on Friday I will post it.......

[Chuck Beach]

The hemi cars don't have to add any weight, there index got hit by .15 ... 9.60 at sea level ...

[Bob Mulry]

Hi All,

7:15 PM in Las Vegas.................

Still working on getting Alcohol Qualifying done.......

Next Pro Mod

and Super Comp

and Super Gas

Stock next

and Super Stock

It will be a late night getting in the 2nd round of Stock & Super Stock

That's all for now

[Bruce Noland]

Evan,

There has not been any misrepresentation about the performance of the CJs from our side. And it isn't called complaining when lots of people feel they are getting rolled-over. As racers and members of nhra we have several options that were not on your list.

New word from SEMA and the nhra national event: All classes from AA to J (stick and automatic) will soon feature lots of new under-factored cars - from all the OEMs. It's nhra's way of saying thank you to many of it's most loyal members.

Tony,

Most racers still want to go class racing. 255 of them came to Vegas with dreams of winning class.

[BlueOval Ralph]

From NHRA web site

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry

Hi Ralph,

If the shedule that you posted is correct than NHRA will shoot them selves in the foot again with Stock & Super Stock running back to back on all of their hits.

Stock will still in weight & fuel check when they start running Super Stock.

Bob