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Old 12-17-2009, 05:15 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Harry 6674 View Post
Thats the way it was when we ran off the records. Thats the way it should be now. The rally racers used to have to reach the finish at a precribed time, not so in real drag racing.
When we ran off of records, more than 1/10th under was a break out. The records were stiff enough there was not near as much of it as we see now. Final round at national events was no break out, but if you ran under that was your new record.

Here in Div 4, qualifying at our points races is usually that way. Everybody is handicapped off their indexes, which also gives us some practice for eliminations. It's interesting.
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