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Originally Posted by Nitro Joe Jackson

ok guys just talked to Michael and he told me to TRY to handle this question, the CIC race is basically like Comp Eliminator, a driver will carry his or her's index. I will have shoe polish and will put the index's on the windows from rd 2 on (first round everybody is on the regular class index) So if speed racer in his SS/DA lost 4 hundreds off of his index in round 1 (I forget how far under we said the CIC will effect) anyhow then in round 2 its 10.16, but if 2 drivers meet up in round 4 and both are in same class, it doesn't matter how much either driver has lost CIC, they will be heads up and if the winner takes more then what he has already took the round before CIC wise, he loses more. Hope this helps, bottom line is try to win the round without killing your index.

The CIC trigger is 1.25 under using the "old" NHRA indexes (current index plus 3 tenths). Using your example of SS/DA; the index would be 10.50 (10.20+3 tenths), and a run of 9.24 (1.26 under would trigger a CIC hit of .01 for the next round.