It's Time to combine

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Ernie Neal

Luke,
I somewhat agree with this. My son mentioned this at indy when he said we run about the same as the GT/CA cars but qualify much lower. I told him, the only way we could run with them now is the difference in the horsepower factor. It seems like 3 years ago they stopped hitting the horsepower on the sticks when an automatic car triggered it. I'm glad for that. With torque multiplication, trans brakes and radials, autos have taken the lead.
If you look at indy qualifing sheets this year, we are near the top in GT stick. The same guy built all the engines in my cars and the class winner in GT/CA
I say back off the GT stick indexes .1 and see if we stack up any better. Joining stick and autos will do away with sticks.
Why do you think a regular superstock runs GT? Answer: GT index helps them protect their horsepower factor, because it's lower.

Ernie Neal
SS 354

That's why everyone running the 283/220 in a Chevy II runs GT/I,J instead of SS/J,K etc because the GT hp is 230 vs SS at 237.