NHRA Fastest 128 cars

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

Mark, I was being facetious to make a point. Sorry if that went over your head. I am well aware there are no .5 under rental cars, and there is no Q/FS. My point was that some of the front wheel drive cars go a pretty good bit under with no real work, and that picking an obsucre class to avoid a heads up is fine, but you shouldn't be rewarded for NOT racing your way in. The guy who wins G/SA will probably have to run 3-4 rounds of class, thats tough. The guy with a .501 under W/S that runs solo gets to bump a reasonably quick car out of the field? For what? Showing up, thats what. If anything it CHEAPENS the G/SA guys win. And I have no idea what "double a barstool" you are talking about.


Besides Mark, why are you bitching? Weren't you "Top Gun" last year?

Chad, No ,it wasn't over my head . I got your point right away. You were using this thread to bash higher index cars, and you're still doing it.
There's several reasons why there are few W/Stockers. The main one is,you don't have to win class to get in an eliminator anymore. Now you can't even get in at Indy anymore with a class win.
( A 54 year tradition)


Let's look at this from another perspective:
June 2009 , Joe Fonebone wants to enter his U/SA Shelby at Indy. There are already 2 other cars entered in U/SA . Joe thinks he can run with the other cars,but probably can't qualify by ET. He's still waiting on the paperwork for his .527 lift V6 cam, but he goes ahead and enters
One of the other cars withdraws due to business reasons, brought on by the Obama tax hikes.
The third car blows up at Bowling Green . Joe gets to Indy and what do you know,he's the only one in U/SA. Joe singles and runs .99 under and wins class.
Joe should be in the eliminator. (period)


Yeah, my current car would get in the eliminator either way, but I really am an open trailer kinda guy at heart.