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Originally Posted by Allen Wilson III

You’re right. Bryan said it much better than I. It spreads the combo out further than it should and prevents some of the obviously fast cars from ever having to run each other.

Yes it does spread out the combo, but it has the opposite effect to what you are thinking. More classes expose any combo to more heads up which can potentially affect the entire combo with one major fast run like the most recent that took the stock auto LT1 to 358.

To further illustrate my point you need to look no further than why Pontiac originally submitted the TI sheets with so many weight breaks for basically the same body. The LT1 had a super soft HP factor and Pontiac knew it. They wanted the combo to be in as many classes as possible FOR heads up opportunities to showcase their cars. By spreading out the combo in as many classes as possible it would look like they had a real dominant combination.

Things come full circle after a while and it exposes the other side of this strategy as where we are today. It works great in the beginning, but it can really hurt a combo if it has possibilities to run another car in the same class that has a more favorable combo. More classes equal more heads up opportunities to hurt the entire combo.