Submit 2014 Rule Change Requests

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

And there lyes the problem...everybody is out to protect their turf, the entire concept of saving the eliminator be damned.
I don't have a NItro Joe right now...how many racers even race FWD? 1% of all Stock Eliminator? If that???

Yeah. You'll note we run A/SA mostly, and sometimes CC/SA. The first thing I mentioned, dropping the 1/2 pound weight breaks, directly affects us. I'd pretty much have to build another engine to move up or down a class, and we'd have to decide before we left the shop what class to run. We'd be pretty much tied to the 8 pound class, for better or worse, at least until we got to where I could finish the 7 pound class engine. Honestly, that puts us in with the new cars, and without room to move much. We could build a 396 for the 9 pound class, I suppose.

So while it might make it a little tougher on us to start, over the long run, especially if class was run more often, it would help the whole class.

I'm still convinced that running class at every event, as well as paying points for class, records, and qualifying, would be good for the class, and not just by making the AHFS work faster. It would also encourage people to build combinations that had a fair amount of competition in order to score points toward a championship.

Bringing more performance, and more heads up racing, back to class racing would bring some sponsors back. Face it, they need to sell parts. If performance doesn't matter enough, they don't sell enough parts, and they don't have a reason to give a damn about the class.

It would also still allow the guy who isn't, and for what ever reason can't be, the fastest in his class, a shot at running the regular eliminations and winning.