2016 Shoot Out Rules posted
 

As we had heard, the unblown cars are written out the program, unless they can run faster than a blown car. Imagine that. Fastest 8 get to run. Don't matter which motor. Sounds like a Chevrolet deal to me. It's no secret Chevy has not done too well in the Naturally Aspirated classes in the shoot outs. So just write out the rest of us. Bo Butner, Kevin Helms, David Barton, just for starters now have Stock Eliminator cars only and those guys just come to mind early. There are a few more. Hawk is a player. Some V10 cars (mine included) So it's blown or nothing.

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How long have you been around. As long as NHRA DRIVES CHEVYS THEY WILL GET THE NOD!

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Leave it to the NHRA to screw up a good thing!

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Jeff, David Barton is entered for Gainesville in FS/A with a 2015 COPO with a supercharged 350. I believe that the car is owned by Gary Wolkwitz of SS/AH fame.

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Jeff - as we discussed numeroouss times - they were never going to put enough weight on the blower cars to make "heads up" sense and they sure did not want a handicap start for the "NA"cars.

NBD - We can stay focused and not worry about the shoot out - we just have blower cars co-mingled in our class until they "blow" themselves out - LOL

Ron
Durham-Motorsports

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Looks like the field of cars just reduced it self by one half1

NO WAY THIS DEAL WORKS WITHOUT COMING UP WITH A SYSTEM TO SLOW THE BLOWER CARS DOWN! There is no way to stack enough weight in them for their to ever be any parity so the NA cars get screwed as a result. The fans could care less whether these cars run 7.99 or they run 8.75. It's heads up racing they want to see!

What's next when these cars exceed the roll cage rules? Who wants torch the cage out of their 150,000 car to put a funny car cage in it?

Bad idea NHRA.. This decision just cost me a ton of money. Good thing I still have my trusty 67 Camaro.

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:mad: Bummer!

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Welcome to the SS wars of 1960s all over again. Factories get excited to win, NHRA collects more money and racers, racers get factored, new parts arrive weekly and the end is in sight again. Apples against oranges or lemons still cannot be factored to race heads up.
Not trying to rain on parade but are we really surprised by the issues? responses and problems?
Fake HP and factoring are again the problems.

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Are you guys sure that they are not intending to run separate 8 car fields in FS/X and FS/XX? Or possibly the fastest 8 against separate indexes? That's how a few others have interpreted the news. They still reference both and if the intent is to only take 8 cars in one class then why still reference two classes that you no longer acknowledge a distinction between?

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Any chance that those who were N/A before (and competitive) that switched to blown combos in the off season knew before the rest of us??? Hmmm!