2011 ahfs

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

well it was purely academics discussion, i didn't actually THINK anyone in Glendora would put the effort into it

The truth is, other than tech, the AHFS should be a purely hands off automatic system. Honestly, they should just plug in a weather station and let it work with the computer they already have. An Excel spreadsheet based look up table could automatically do the weather adjustments for each run to sea level. Another Excel spreadsheet based look up table could handle the run averaging. Properly written, the programming should produce an adjustment report every Monday after the racing is finished for the weekend on Sunday.

After all, they call it the AUTOMATIC Horsepower Factoring system, that's what it should be. With the computer software and hardware available today, as well as the programmers, the fact that it isn't truly automatic (although it should have human review) and it doesn't work well is a testament to how far things are off.