Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

28 high winding Hemi-dinosaurs..compared to 13 GT/AA ..mostly new model cars..not a hard pick for me!

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

That may be true but you and ron were world famous for a couple of days LOL any how nice job it was fun to watch from the left coast.

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

How many of those High Winding Hemi cars had a chance at winning? From what I observed there was only one other car close to the Wescotts' and it was a car with their engine. I would agree that there was more cars to see but the action was closer in the GT/AA class. Drop the Westcotts out of the SS/AH field and you have an exciting race. I mean come on, they had upward of an .10 to .15 hundreths advantage on the field.

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

Some Indy observations....

GT/AA was certainly cool, newer models and Colin's Mustang was awesome, but might want to consider the high-horsepower 454s (and others) have no place to go.

The Westcott's had SS/AH covered and did anybody notice how far Westcott Sr.'s stick car has came, he is within a whisker of Jr.'s auto car.

SS/JA had the OEM war; a 1979 Aspen wins class, but the trophy could have went to Little's 'Cuda, O'Malley's 'Vette, or Terrell's Camaro

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

Westcott Sr.'s stick car has come so far that Jr.'s automatic car is for sale; they are building a second stick car for Jr. to drive. Westcott Sr. had a couple of 157 mph runs; if that isn't horsepower I don't know what is.
Bill Seabrooks - superfan1

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

semi's

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
3651 Charlie Westcott Jr. 799J John Rains
C4 ****WINNER**** 0.135 8.690 152.81 0.009 8.823 150.28
SS/AH Index: 9.75 (+/-): -1.060 SS/AH Index: 9.75 (+/-): -0.927
Prior rounds:
Qualified: #19 8.631 154.99 #62 8.737 152.71

Rains cut the tree down and Westcott was very late, but still managed to run him down. Barely. Charlie Westcott Jr.'s MOV: 0.0074 seconds (approximately 20 inches).



Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
1798 Bucky Hess 350 Jim Pancake
C4 ****WINNER**** 0.039 8.844 148.94 0.008 8.891 148.18
SS/AH Index: 9.75 (+/-): -0.906 SS/AH Index: 9.75 (+/-): -0.859
Prior rounds:
Qualified: #84 8.776 151.07 #105 8.810 149.38

The lights were a lot closer in this pair and Pancake's better light was not enough to hold off Hess' quicker car. Bucky Hess' MOV: 0.0169 seconds (approximately 4 feet). He will race Westcott Jr. for the 2008 MOPAR Hemi Challenge championship and a hefty winner's purse.

I think that is pretty good racing ...below not as good..

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
3061 Colin Wigle 7670 Tibor Kadar
C3 -0.005 9.241 143.66 ****WINNER**** 0.043 12.121 101.73
GT/AA Index: 10.40 (+/-): -1.159 GT/AA Index: 10.40 (+/-): 1.721
Prior rounds:
Qualified: #14 9.253 143.34 #41 9.343 138.78

Wigle has been "the car to beat," but he took himself out and Kadar will race Bo Kenney for the GT/AA trophy.


Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
Bye 1273 Bo Kenney
C3 ****WINNER**** -0.047 11.126 79.19
GT/AA Index: 10.40 (+/-): 0.726
Prior rounds:
Qualified: #20 9.281 140.91

Re: Which class run off was better: GT/AA or SS/AH
 

I got to admit the GT/AA class run off's where way better then SS/AH, main reason you didnt have one car running away from everybody else ET wise like what was happening in SS/AH.Dont get me wrong i love the Hemi's, but it's not fun watching who is racing for second.

I was really thinking it was Colin or Bo's race, but we never race on paper.
Another really great class run off was B/SA & G/SA in Stock, I was watching both those classes on Thursday.