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I know that this will not sit well with a lot of you. I rarely post but I feel that I need to a least vent on this.
All the money that we spend to make our cars faster and more competitive only to be hand tied to go too fast and hurt our or our combo. To some it's all about the win to some it's all about how the car performs. In the end the blend of both is desirable. The current policy in place to me is confusing at best. and now we have good people with fast cars making decision based on index rather than making the car fast and consistent. Not sure this right and in the good spirt of class racing good for the sport. I know that there will be poo poo,rs so I guess let the dart throwers have at it. Dirk Olson A/S 5036
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Tim, Not sure what you're apologizing for .
For winning class? For hitting the trigger twice? For taking too much win light in the class final and putting your combo in the second tier for HP? Be that as it may, the year end average for your combo has to be under -.85 . If it's above that, what ET was used in the past to determine the HP hit? What's new then? You can still lower the average by running.65 to .849 under as has been done every other year with this popular combo. Am I missing something else new that pertains to Tim? Anybody?
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Thursday Test and tuning for .65 under runs? Not .649. Easier said than done.
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What I don't understand is guys with popular combos running 95 under regularly.. Most likely won't even get a bye run out of it...It can only come back to bite them. Sure it ain't fun to slow yourself down but that's the hand we're dealt.
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So Tim are you saying that no matter what happens from here forward, we get HP?
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Tim you you worked hard and spent $ enjoy what you haveThis isnt about you its about NHRA and their foolish rules
What we do is about performance not about slowing down We spend 20K to 30k for a motor to slow it down Until the racer has NHRA respect we will deal with this until stock is done or might as well be done I love NHRA racing but hate where were headed.....
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All runs for that engine combo regardless of class/combo that are faster than .649 will be averaged together and if faster than .850 the motor gets a hit using the fastest run recorded. So you need for that engine combo to have as many runs between .850 and .650 to get the average lowered. Been there done that and its difficult to race that way
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Tim I'm shocked we didn't get hit this past winter. When I watched some cars with our combo qualify and race set up plus 1 second under IN BRACKET MODE last year I was literally shaking my head!!
I didn't freshen my stuff over the winter specifically because of the new rules. I'm doing my best to keep our average down! LOL!! |
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