Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

I think I'll have some t-shirts made up:

"I ran 1.7 under at Indy and all I got was 3.25%!"
:eek:

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

or............

New Drag Pack stocker $100k
Trip to Indy $3k

Anihillating every conventional stocker in my class by over half a second, and NHRA laughing all the way to the bank...........................priceless (well the rest of us have to pay the price)

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

They probably didn't think those performances warranted any more, since Indy's a mineshaft... :rolleyes:

Well, there ya go.... keep racing with them. Things aren't going to change, because the longer they can keep them underfactored, the more people may give in and "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." -- when the sales of the cars and engines slow or stop, then they "might" adjust them.

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

Is today April 1st??

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

160 plus stockers and SS at at the 2010 US nationals. Where is that kind of car count in IHRA Mike B? 80% of you bitching don't even race at INDY or with NHRA. Yes HP factors are way out of line right now, but look at how many new cars and people are in S and SS now. S and SS have grown more in the past two years then in the last 10. Something like this is the only way to get new people in our sport. Over time this will be a good thing for our sport.

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

Just exactly how many new people have the Drag Paks and Cobra Jets accounted for? Pendarvis? Teuton? Holzman? etc.....

I am new to this and I race stock eliminator. I do not race a new Drag Pak or Cobra Jet. I paid a lot of money for myself to get a car that was competitive and had already been factored to death. It was the most economical way for me to participate.

I got a half a year into racing before the Cobra Jets hit, then come the Drag Paks. I am new blood! I am considering selling my stuff and going back to other interests since the NHRA has not held up their end of the deal in honoring the spirit and intent of Stock Eliminator.

IHRA is out of the picture since there aren't enough tracks in my area. Again, I am the new blood and I am leaving (or in the process of it). I really had my hopes up that Indy would wake up the NHRA and they would reclassify the cars into the Factory Experimental class which I think is pretty neat.

For the final time in case someone missed it. I am the future of the NHRA and I am leaving. I won't let the door hit me in the ***.

Don

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

Go back and look car counts have been down at National Events and Points meets last year and this!! Div1 has had higher counts than Dive II for some time. Something to think about is alot of the older cars had thier HP ratings adjusted before the .30 was subtracted now do they go back and correct for that mistake. What about the difference in Dyno corrections between the old and new??

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

Time line - late 1960's......if there was an internet back then it would have gone something like this.

"Everyone with 55-57 Chevy stockers are being run out of business. These new Mustangs and Camaros should be put in a different class. We just cannot compete with those new factory built cars. They need to have horsepower added to them or else I'm going to have to quit racing. NHRA needs to do something before Stock is gone."

Well in 1972 NHRA did do something.

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

Charlie, I know how to keep me in the sport. Lower my horse power rating.

Re: 3.25% for the DP & CJ is just a slap in the face
 

For what its worth....i was told that the way the AHFS is set up (Written) this is all NHRA can do at the present, supposedly it go's back to the way Len Imbrogno wrote it up. Now truth or not this is what i was told, NHRA has to rewrite the AHFS, in the mean time all the earlier cars will get their butts kicked while NHRA decides how to do this. Go figure,as i said before (SAD)