Class Nationals event planning

[Michael Beard]

I don't see why everyone is so worried about dropping the crate motor indexes or putting the new cars in classes of their own
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these "adjusted" indexes make no sense to me.

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A quick review of the difference between the existing class indexes between traditional Stock classes and Crate Motor class of the same weight break:

STOCK...Weight Break...Stock Index ... Crate Motor Index
A/SA ......8.00 to 8.49 .... 11.35 ............. E/CM .... 11.50
B/SA ......8.50 to 8.99 .... 11.55 ............ F/CM .... 11.65
C/SA ......9.00 to 9.49 .... 11.70 ........... G/CM .... 11.80
D/SA ......9.50 to 9.99 .... 11.85 ........... H/CM .... 11.95
E/SA....10.00 to 10.49 .... 12.00 ............ I/CM .... 12.10
F/SA....10.50 to 10.99 .... 12.15 ............ J/CM .... 12.25
G/SA ...11.00 to 11.49 .... 12.30 ........... K/CM .... 12.40
H/SA ...11.50 to 11.99 .... 12.45 ........... L/CM .... 12.55
I/SA ....12.00 to 12.49 .... 12.60 ........... M/CM .... 12.65

Crate motors certainly do not have any inherent deficiencies vs a traditional stocker. It is not a punitive measure, but a common sense one. I ran crate motor cars for nearly 10 years, and won numerous championships with them, so I am plenty familiar with them. These cars have been around a very long time, and IHRA has presumably made whatever changes it sees fit for their events. The Northern Class Nationals is an independent event.


Giving the 'new' cars (COPO, Cobra Jet, DragPak) their own class designations with their same weight break, HP, etc. will have no effect on them other than to have a different sticker on the window (which I will provide) and to separate them from 'traditional' Stockers in terms of heads-up runs. Since these combinations are still relatively new, I will defer to NHRA's AHFS adjustments, which will have another 10 months. I do not intend to alter HP factors or weight on any of them.

People should be able to come into the event without having to adjust weight to fit a particular class. The exception to that may be if a combination has a different HP factor between NHRA and IHRA, we will defer to the NHRA HP factor. Also, as mentioned earlier in this thread, Trucks and Fuel Injected cars will all run in their NHRA-designated classes (not separated as they are in IHRA).

I hope this clarifies not only 'what' we are doing, but 'why' we are doing it. We hope everyone can come out and enjoy a great, fun weekend of dedicated S/SS racing.