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help if you win class are you in ?
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thanks mark
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You still need to be among the 128 quickest qualifiers (or an alternate) to make the show.
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Several years ago Larry (prior to 200?), if you won class you'd get in, and the remaining spots would be filled with the quickest non-class winning entries. However, several racers (faster classed?), complained to NHRA about their running further under their index than many of the class winners, and NHRA gave into them. There was a thread about this sometime ago (last decade too?), and it may have shed more light on who benefited from that happening, and why it happened....
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I've raced a Sedan Delivery , many coupes , and a ragtop but none drove as well as my 'friggin red Camaro"........... Get over it .
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Yeah, but back then "that class advantage" meant over the cars in your individual class, to be the fastest car in your class, and not to be the fastest car in your class because you're the only car in your class. Big difference.
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Hey Jack Flash, your friggin red Camaro should drive better than all your previous cars. With all the technology in your friggin red Camaro and the price tag that goes with it, it BETTER be the best. The manufacturers put you into a position to run as fast as you do with their advertised horse power ratings. By the time the AHFS sorts you all out, the newer breed of friggin red Camaro's will be out making your car another also ran.
The only benefit of being the fastest in your class is bragging rights. Class means nothing anymore. Just the fastest "rated" cars are in. Look at the qualifying sheet, it is dominated with newer cars in the upper half. Of course except for combinations that NHRA graciously re-rates and then is in the top three. Ooops, how did that happen. So Larry, there you have it, winning class is for ego, not qualifying. Ron Ortiz U/SA my wagon is gray and friggin red.
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