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68 | 48.23% |
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5 | 3.55% |
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It was handicap racing, with the handicaps coming from the National record in your class I think the index system came out in 1977 & if your car was faster than your given index you were allowed to dial quicker, but not sure if you can dial different each round. Don't think you were.
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I liked that deal. In the heat, at slower tracks, not everybody could run the record. Mattered how fast you were. Kinda dumbed down now.
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So, someone shows-up with their U/SA capable of going .09 under their National Index. Unless his opponent hits the tree better or can go .10 under their National Index with the same light, the guy can't lose?
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NHRA had to go to these slow indexes to draw the slow guys back. About any old thing will run under these indexes.
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The trouble with running off the records was basically two things. There was always somebody with a soft record and he would have a big advantage, and the flip side was somebody setting the record in mineshaft conditions hurting everybody else in the same class.
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Most were smart enough to not bomb the record, since they had to run off them. It was not that big a problem. Most I have talked to that raced back then, liked it better.
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Only heads ups were between cars in the same class. Had none at national events because only class winners ran eliminations. I won my first points race, at slow track, running a tenth off the record. Didn't have a real close race all day.
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