What's your best guess?

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Geerhead55

Conditions will certainly dictate those outcomes,,, has anyone seen or heard the longrange forcast for that weekend?

Having been in event promotion for several years now (let alone a participant for decades), I can say with some certainty that long-range forecasts are completely worthless, even as a form of entertainment. Multiple services don't agree with each other, and over the long-range timespan, a given service ends up not agreeing with its own predictions. Even 5-day forecasts are so-so at best. We've seen 20+ degree swings in a day around here. As the saying goes, "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes, it'll change."

How about car count?

Since early summer last year, I've been saying 330. I've typically been within 10 cars or so at our big money bracket races. (Drives Anthony nuts!) LOL That being said, typical NHRA events at Columbus draw almost 200 Div. 3 cars alone... if the stars line up, you could see 380 or more. Our last big money bracket race had 399 entries... think y'all can top that?


For those predicting #1 Qualifiers and Q32's... Don't forget, you can find PDF's with the classes and indexes linked near the bottom of http://looserocker.com/?page_id=27

[Jack McCarthy]

u/sa will take -1.50 to make top 3 ....

dont know about everyone else

captain

[JeremyDuncan]

Well Dan Jacobs went -1.40 under his NHRA index at the bowling green combo in Gt/G and Larry Stewart in the Sonny Stancil car went -1.46 under in SS/IA at belle rose CIC race .So with 3 tenths added I say that -1.70 is do able in SS.


Barton went 8.7x in the factory shoot out race in gainesville. BB/SA is basically the same weight with an NHRA index of 10.30. So 3 tenths added to it with air being worse most likely in columbus. I say at least -1.70 is possible in stock too.

[Bob Don]

With the +.30 on the indexes and some letting it all hang out, could there possibly be a 2.00 under?

[Paul Wong]

Originally Posted by Bob Don

With the +.30 on the indexes and some letting it all hang out, could there possibly be a 2.00 under?

I would be shocked if we don't see a 2.00 under run.

[Ed Wright]

Many SS cars can go 1.5 under those indexes with no AHFS to worry about.

[Mike Taylor 3601]

I'm not really a betting man,but I think it would be pretty safe bet to say you'll see a 2.00 under run.

Maybe I'm optimistic but I was thinking it would take-1.700 under or so to make the quick 32.
Mike Taylor 3601

[Mike Taylor 3601]

Originally Posted by Mike Taylor 3601

I'm not really a betting man,but I think it would be pretty safe bet to say you'll see a 2.00 under run.

Maybe I'm optimistic but I was thinking it would take-1.700 under or so to make the quick 32.
Mike Taylor 3601

Just was looking at my flyer,noticed Q32 was stock and super stock thought it was a combined Q32 still think you will see -2.00 runs bump probaly won't be 1.700 I 'm thinking around 1.500 under ish
Mike taylor 3601

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Having been in event promotion for several years now (let alone a participant for decades), I can say with some certainty that long-range forecasts are completely worthless, even as a form of entertainment. Multiple services don't agree with each other, and over the long-range timespan, a given service ends up not agreeing with its own predictions. Even 5-day forecasts are so-so at best. We've seen 20+ degree swings in a day around here. As the saying goes, "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes, it'll change."

A while back we had to attend a Sunday function. The weather persons were predicting storms, strong winds and torrential rains over and over on the local stations. We decided to wait before leaving, after hearing them repeatedly predict the grim forcast we cancelled. 15 minutes later the sun was out and no more rain.
Weather forcasters must be heavily involved in the search for the missing jet liner...

[Geerhead55]

It kind of goes back to the old theory,, "You don't get rained out at home,,you get rained out at the track." Thats why we're flying out anyway.
Danny Durham