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Originally Posted by art leong
This is a performance based eliminator To many on here want to forget that.
I agree with number one.
But as far as number two goes if someone "legally" finds a way to go faster than the competition. There should be no reason to let the slower guys have a free ride.
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my point is this, if one guy with a combo has everyone else covered, then HE is the standout, not the combo. If one combo has everyone else covered, then the COMBO is the standout. If you punish the whole group on one's actions then you are promoting mediocrity. I don't see it as the slower guys having a free ride as much as I see it as one guy either spends more, knows, more, or works more. That person earned an advantage ( with the spending more being questionable). Let's use a hypothetical situation here, you have combo A that has 20 guys actively running one. 3 of them are .25 under, 1 is 1.10 under, and the rest are a tight average around .8 under. Obviously the 3 slow cars need to fix their problems and get to work ( I occasionally fall in that category), the one guy flying needs to go through a good "TSA style" tech inspection, but do you really think the other 16 guys as a whole are getting a free ride?
I don't think this is unfair to the class. Sure you have a standout, but that standout gives everyone else a target to aim at and it doesn't discourage people from having a fast race car. If you said that the instant hit only applies if the combo has an average of -.xx that's all it would take to keep from killing a combination.
Remember that the AHFS is intended to keep the playing field level between combinations, not individuals.