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Originally Posted by Rich Biebel
To many classes Jim and to many cars making bye runs for a class trophy.
Why can't you get the message? I am pushing for more headsup runs not less......More cars in a class means more heads up runs, fewer winners and those that win deserve the awards.....LIKE it was 40 years ago!
NHRA decided to seperate FI cars from carbureted cars for a few years. Now they are combined again. They could do the same thing with other classes. Some people would be hurt, some people would be helped.......Thats the nature of the category!
My view is real simple......All of the classes are based on arbitrary HP to weight figures and just look at today as an example. New cars with rediculously low HP ratings and NHRA accepts this......What Stocker from the muscle car era could ever hope to run with cars that are going 140 mph....None is the answer and some just got more HP........
Stock Class racing is a far cry from 40 years ago...not even close!
Either make it reasonably fair or make it a purely bracket format and drop the sham of Class racing.....
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Rich,
If the problem is too many classes then what changes would you make to lessen the number of classes? How could you do it without making so many cars useless forcing people to quit because their car doesn't fit anywhere?
How about this: do away with required factory weights and keep the posted Hp but allow the cars to be whatever weight the owner wants, then have the NHRA cut the classes to 1lb weight per class.
That way I could take my Max wedge, add 500lbs and race in J/SA or take out 300lbs and race AA/SA; as long as your car met the weight and Hp requirements for the class you declare you would be legal. This would cut the number of classes in half and racers could run the car they like, not one dictated by factory weight/Hp breaks.
JimR