Idea????? Do away with the breakout!!!!

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by art leong

Yes Eddie you run off the index no dialing. First car there wins. And while I'll agree with you if you are a 6 tenths under car a car isn't going to go 1.50 under against you.
But what about when 2 cars that can go 1.50 under run each other. The loser goes home, and they both get an afhs hit of 9.25% or .45 Do you think they will be able to run 1.50 under again? Now they should be 1.05 under.
Couple this with one class (natural only).
And I think this might work. It would sure get rid of the sandbaggers quick.
And at Indy go back to Class winners and quickest losers.

Well Art,if they go back to that system It's been nice racing Stock for the last 11 years.
Car counts will drop in my estimation by more than 50%.
I neither have the combination nor the money to run with these guys.
The solution to the skewed hp factors and the obscure older combos that are grossly underrated is for NHRA to take the run history they have and just hand out HP where it's warrented.Drag racing welfare,probably so,but at least it would make for some closer racing.Much better than the crap that's going on now with both the old/new out of whack factors and "selective" rules interpretation through out the divisions.
For those who think I have no dog in this fight,the record was just set in my class (T/SA)
at 13.15.It was at 13.29.The fastest I've ever gone was 13.44 inkiller weather at Atco.
I have no problem what so ever with the owners of these cars.I consider them both friends.I do have a problem with the rules structure that allows cars to bomb class indexs
by this much.
There are plenty examples of this.Mostly in the upper classes by virtue of the fact that a lot of people want to go fast.
So if you want to return to the days of winners being the guys with the deepest pockets,suit yourself.It's not my cup of tea.