NHRA letter on AHFS....

Another Friendly Racer · 06-30-2011, 11:19 AM

I agree that it is a well thought out letter that Wade wrote with many excellent points. If we get rid of the AHFS, where do we go? Back to the days of a committee determining horsepower? I remember certain guys with unique cars qualifying -.30 under all year just to get 10 horsepower taken off their combo that in actuality already had #1 qualifier potential. The next year they would dominate qualifying/ class eliminations. There are enough politics involved already with the factory race cars being allowed to destroy the actual stockers. I dont want to go back to those days of more politics.

I have to believe that 95% percent of stock/super stock cars out there do not have the capability of going -1.00 under. With that being said, 95% of us keep looking for ways to go faster and keep purchasing performance parts to keep up with guys like Wade, Rock, and the other 5%.

Here might be a crazy solution: You can not dial more than 2 tenths faster than your qualifying time. You can also not run more than 2 tenths faster than your qualifying time in a heads up race. This should very much discourage sandbagging and make the AHFS greatly more effective.

06-30-2011, 11:19 AM	#15
Another Friendly Racer Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 152 Likes: 0 Liked 19 Times in 6 Posts	Re: NHRA letter on AHFS.... I agree that it is a well thought out letter that Wade wrote with many excellent points. If we get rid of the AHFS, where do we go? Back to the days of a committee determining horsepower? I remember certain guys with unique cars qualifying -.30 under all year just to get 10 horsepower taken off their combo that in actuality already had #1 qualifier potential. The next year they would dominate qualifying/ class eliminations. There are enough politics involved already with the factory race cars being allowed to destroy the actual stockers. I dont want to go back to those days of more politics. I have to believe that 95% percent of stock/super stock cars out there do not have the capability of going -1.00 under. With that being said, 95% of us keep looking for ways to go faster and keep purchasing performance parts to keep up with guys like Wade, Rock, and the other 5%. Here might be a crazy solution: You can not dial more than 2 tenths faster than your qualifying time. You can also not run more than 2 tenths faster than your qualifying time in a heads up race. This should very much discourage sandbagging and make the AHFS greatly more effective.