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As I remember about a year ago they polled the racers and it was overwhelming voted to keep the indexes the same and make the corrections with the AHFS. Lowering the index does nothing to improve parity in the classes. Only hurts the guys at the bottom of the sheet. Car counts are not what they used to be. Lowering the indexes will not bring more cars to the track. Fast guys have the choice to run all out or hold back. If you are racing a combo that can run way under including under the trigger then you could get a hit at any time. Realistically there was very few HP hits at the end of the season last year.
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Index changes only affects qualifying and positions on the ladder if you do not do it universally. Then it is only semantics if you do it universally. I have yet to understand how an index change would target a soft combo without affecting more fairly factored combos. Then you have a scenario in Super Stock where there are 5 classes with a 11.00 index. SS/K, SS/JA, SS/TD, FSS/M, & SS/PHA (whatever that is). One or more of the cars in those particular classes my have a super soft index, but none of them would be a heads up situation if they line up against another class even though it shares the same index. Soft or not indexes only affect qualifying at a fairly rare event that has more than 128 cars which Indy is one and sometimes Bowling Green. I know there are a few more that pop up and they are pretty cool to see. But qualifying high on the sheet or even number 1 doesn't seem to be a big factor in winning overall. All that being said I am not opposed to lowering the indexes, but I don't see the point if the triggers are lowered along with it. Last edited by KRatcliff; Yesterday at 11:24 PM. |
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I think the soft indexes are not across the board which makes it difficult to fix. I agree hacking them all just pulls cars away from the trigger potentially but won?t change the spread. In fact the cars that can go the fastest benefit the most.
I don?t see nhra doing that anyway. Their lawyers don?t want to have to deal with any decisions at all. If nhra were to make rule changes for that rewarded performance, ahfs would work a lot better than it does now.
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How about having two different classes for the same combo in Stock Eliminator.
Example would be 1 G/SA class has an index of 12.00 the other lower. Say 11.00 (for easy math). The 11.00 index car carry a unique letter designation. All the same current rules applied to both cars. If both cars have a heads up, its a dial race. If a 11.0 index G/SA car races another same index car , its no dial , same for two 12.00 index cars. Ladders are based on runs under you class index. Call the class what ever you want, make the lower index 1. Under, .8 under. .5 under. But this way the really fast guys can keep it matted and race each other without getting Horse Powered on Monday. The guys that chose not to run with the lower index CAN and race a fast index same combo in a non heads up round. Problem Solved ( well almost lol) AHFS will never accomplish what NHRA intend it to . Steve Teeter Stk/SS 620/7888 |
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Running the extra weight comes with the territory when HP is added and the aftermarket head combos can drop down a class from the natural if extra weight is somehow an issue for their car. I am a numbers and money guy. I will be one of the first to recognize that few of us are doing it for the money (IHRA is trying to shake this up). It is the thrills, sense of accomplishment, and connections that I make. Those three things rank way above the money for me otherwise I wouldn't do this at all. |
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