Originally Posted by Darrel Goheen (Post 502725)

Being new to racing stock only starting last year the thing that bothers me the most is a heads up race possibility. I'm sure stock/super stock has always been run this way but I don't like the heads up race with a car in the same class. I'm all for class eliminations to reward those for all the hard work to build a fast car but I could be soured very quick with stock and super stock racing when I spend hundreds of dollars on travel and entries and end up with a heads up race when I'm normally about in the middle of the pack or slower with other D/SA cars and in most cases losing the race because of the quicker car in my class instead of just losing the way I normally do. Am I alone in these thoughts? I don't understand the heads up racing only for same class cars vs dialing in all pairs at their index and whoever crosses finish line first wins.

I was fortunate last year and only had one heads up race and that was in class elims.

Originally Posted by Darrel Goheen (Post 502725)

Being new to racing stock only starting last year the thing that bothers me the most is a heads up race possibility. I'm sure stock/super stock has always been run this way but I don't like the heads up race with a car in the same class. I'm all for class eliminations to reward those for all the hard work to build a fast car but I could be soured very quick with stock and super stock racing when I spend hundreds of dollars on travel and entries and end up with a heads up race when I'm normally about in the middle of the pack or slower with other D/SA cars and in most cases losing the race because of the quicker car in my class instead of just losing the way I normally do. Am I alone in these thoughts? I don't understand the heads up racing only for same class cars vs dialing in all pairs at their index and whoever crosses finish line first wins.

I was fortunate last year and only had one heads up race and that was in class elims.

Originally Posted by Sean Cour (Post 502754)

Welcome to stock and super stock! Where performance DOES matter!

Originally Posted by Ed Wright (Post 502758)

Thinking Darrel like bracket racing.

Originally Posted by Darrel Goheen (Post 502759)

Why isn't every round performance based?

Originally Posted by Darrel Goheen (Post 502759)

But why does it only matter for qualifying, setting records, class runoff and if you happen to draw someone in your class? Why isn't every round performance based?

Originally Posted by Ed Wright (Post 502765)

They had to dumb it down for the slow guys. We used to run off national records. Not everybody could run that fast. Bracket racing came along, and the slow guys went there so they had a chance of winning something. Car counts went in the dumper. Bracket racing is easier than learning & working harder.

NHRA then went to these bogus slow indexes so the slow guys would come back. So now many of us use restrictor plates, or throttle stops, or throw a couple hundred lbs in the car, or just shut off at 1000' to slow down. Go too fast, get hateful text messages. Gets tiresome.

Originally Posted by Ed Wright (Post 502765)

NHRA then went to these bogus slow indexes so the slow guys would come back.