Ford Focus?

[Tom Moock]

Alan, go to Midwest Class racer on face book, there are people posting on Topeka & Marion’s races. Mite be racer runing street car to get grade?

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Tom Moock

Alan, go to Midwest Class racer on face book, there are people posting on Topeka & Marion’s races. Mite be racer runing street car to get grade?

Thanks.

Back in the older days a racer could potentially take a new street car and enter Stock legally without having to add a roll bar, or aftermarket seat belts because the car fell into the slower classes.
Can't do that now.

[Sean Marconette]

Originally Posted by ALMACK

Interesting.
Wonder if anyone has any pics of the car ?

That qualifying list is book ended by 2 turbo 2.3L Fords.
Old style turbo 2.3L and the newest style turbo 2.3L

Congrats to Sean Marconette on the # 1 position

Thanks Alan!!

Lots of hours over the winter working on the car. We figured something out with our race with Darrel Goheen yesterday and built upon that today.

I did not get a chance to seek out the owner of the Focus. It looked to be right off the street. The track staff thought it was in the wrong group of cars on Saturdays race.

Sean

[Paul Merolla]

I thought I'd revive this thread since the car in question competed at last weekend's Topeka divisional:
83 5801 FS/G Jonathon Maestas, Abeline KS, '17 Focus 13.424 11.35 2.074

There are 2 big problems with this...first off, this is not a Factory Stock car and was obviously misclassified.
Second, he dialed .55 over the index in first round on Friday:

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
5305 Jim Parsons 5801 Jonathon Maestas
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.162 11.305 97.44 0.079 13.287 104.48
F/S Dial: 11.08 (+/-): 0.225 FS/G Dial: 11.90 (+/-): 1.387
Qualified: #41 11.097 -0.703 #83 13.424 2.074

The weight break for this car is 10.91, making it a natural F/S. In my thinking, this round should've been a heads-up!
From what I've heard, the owner is young and eager to learn but doesn't really have a clue about the classification system. It was left to the NHRA staff, who I believe were working with little to no data. We don't want this young man to get discouraged and give up, but you can't just throw the rules out the window for one guy. If I were Mr. Parsons and this round would've gone the other way, you can bet I would have had words with the tech officials.

[Sean Marconette]

He was pitted over by me and was not around when I went to talk to him. A couple of things that was noticed at the National Open. No permanent numbers or class designation, and what appears to be non factory tinted windows that are quite dark.

At last weeks race the numbers appeared to be permanent but the class designation was shoe polish? I was told there were issues with fuel check too.

To Paul's point no one wants to discourage a new racer. But help yourself out and ask fellow racers for some help. I have a pretty good idea who teched his car, they have no idea about class cars and our rules.

Per Classracer Info, it should be in AAF/S. Min w/driver is 3448 lbs and is rated at 298 HP. Index is 13.50

I highly recommend the racer of this car reach out to your fellow division racers for some help everyone is here to lend a hand.



Sean