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Old 02-17-2025, 10:19 PM   #11
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Default Re: Which Eliminators contain Class Racers?

Eliminators with multiple classifications and performance indexes within the same category utilizing a handicap start system.
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Old 02-18-2025, 10:30 AM   #12
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Here is my take.
Class racers have a specific set of rules that you have to follow. Body type, engine type, weight, tire size etc. no delay boxes. HC start. Set indexes and qualified order

Bracket racers have mostly only safety rules to follow. Any body, engine and weight. TS and TD might have a min weight. delay boxes and power adders. Random pairing

Index racers have weight and index rules that have to be followed. Any engine, body, specific weights, throttle stops delay boxes. Heads up start. Random pair round one. set indexes

Pro and Semi Pro also have specific rules that have to be followed. engine size and chassis type, weight, fuel type, pro tree

Stock, SS and Comp are class racers
TS and TD are bracket racers
SG,SC and S/St are index racers
Pro Mod, TAD and TAFC are semi pro (technically Sportsman)
TF,FC, Pro Stock, Pro stock MC are professional classes
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Old 02-18-2025, 01:04 PM   #13
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The terms, "Class" and "Category" get mixed up and misused all the time, which leads to a lot of this confusion on what a Class racer is.
Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Top Alcohol, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Comp Eliminator, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street are all Categories. Not Classes.
A/S, G/SA, SS/D, GT/HA, A/SM, D/ED etc., are Classes within their Category. If you race in a Class, you are a Class racer. Period, end of story.
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Old 02-18-2025, 02:05 PM   #14
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Default Re: Which Eliminators contain Class Racers?

Sounds good to me, hadn't thought of it that way.
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Old 02-18-2025, 03:39 PM   #15
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The terms, "Class" and "Category" get mixed up and misused all the time, which leads to a lot of this confusion on what a Class racer is.
Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Top Alcohol, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Comp Eliminator, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street are all Categories. Not Classes.
A/S, G/SA, SS/D, GT/HA, A/SM, D/ED etc., are Classes within their Category. If you race in a Class, you are a Class racer. Period, end of story.
This is the best explanation I've heard so far!

Seeing you forgot/left out Bracket Racing. I would find it interesting to hear your take on that category. It does have different classes.

I assume that we don't count because we don't bracket race at the Divisional/National level. Although one bracket class does race at the Divisional level.

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Old 02-18-2025, 04:05 PM   #16
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Nothing but quibbling over semantics
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Old 02-21-2025, 05:31 PM   #17
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This is the best explanation I've heard so far!

Seeing you forgot/left out Bracket Racing. I would find it interesting to hear your take on that category. It does have different classes.

I assume that we don't count because we don't bracket race at the Divisional/National level. Although one bracket class does race at the Divisional level.

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Classes, in the sense we're discussing, are the way vehicles are grouped in order to handicap or set a standard for performance....as in Stock and SS are pounds per horsepower, and Comp is pounds per cubic inch.
Or even in Land Speed Racing, which is mainly displacement-based.
So no, bracket racing doesn't have class racers.
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