Re: Grossi and the Big Block
 

FJ,

Don't let the DA figures from Earlville mislead you. It's an all concrete, downhill 1% track that usually hooks hard. It's just one of those tracks that's FAST! Besides, as I mentioned many times on here before, DA figures are bogusly derived and bogusly applied when doing track-to-track comparisons. Our car is more than two tenths faster at Houston in 1700 ft. air than at Brainerd in 1700 ft. air. Earlville in the Fall is just FAST.

Jerry

Re: Grossi and the Big Block
 

Frank did what every good racer does pick a good combination and build it case Closed . The technique has been going on since the beginning of Stock and Super Stock racing and is one way to go quick and should never change .

A Huge Way to Go to Frank Grossi, Phil Mandella,Tony Mandella, and Gary Hetler,and Tibor Kadar a (Pontiac racer) for putting together a engine that lives :) Now is the time for all the racers back east to come on out To Vegas ,one of the best race tracks around in October for Class racing in Super Stock,according to the weather info the road is clear to come West for Sure .

Don't count out Camaron Kallas strong GT/AA car with only a few runs under his belt to pick up , look out Frank LOL

PS Both Camaron and Frank worked like crazy with a huge amount of parts tried to make these combination run with testing,these combinations just did not fly out of the box. Camaron also had a brand new car as well as a brand new combination to him engine.

Re: Grossi and the Big Block
 

Some of you seem to think I'm finding fault with Frank and his seemingly instant success with a new combo. That is far from the truth. I congratulate him for his efforts and understand quite well how difficult and challenging a new and untried combo can be.

My point is that the tech department is no better than 30+ years ago. In fact Farmer probably had a better handle on sportsman combos and their potential than today's tech.

It's time for the sanctioning bodies to get with the times and spend their money on an R&D center with real equipment and competent personnel to understand and resolve sportsman (and pro) issues. And this shouldn't just apply to HP factoring.

FJ

Re: Grossi and the Big Block
 

FJ...yes...Farmer, although not perfect, had better control on engine/combo factoring and the majority of the time, he was very fair. In the past many in this forum have discussed and proposed many ways or methods to approach a consistent factoring. Nevertheless, still to this day of High Tech...NHRA has not instituted a valid and consistant method for factoring.