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Originally Posted by DonatoEng
In all of these posts of new vs old performance, I have not seen one person mention AERODYMAMICS of the new vs old cars.
If new vs old engines and HP were all that mattered, then why are almost all of the SS/GT cars new body vehicles with mostly old engines ?????
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Good comment, and to expand on that I'd still like to see NHRA/IHRA change the way the finish line is tripped so that ground effects of cars can no longer finish a run instead of the front tires of the car. Cars are staged by their front tires, and you can surely see how ground effects extend the nose of these newer cars far beyond the line that their front tire needs to get to to stage. However, it's the ground effects that can trip the beams at a finish line on newer cars (as opposed to the front tires only of an older car). Just like photo radar uses a sensor in the pavement on city streets to trip a camera (if someone crosses the line after the light changes), so should it be used to finish a race....thus one less advantage the newer cars have at the finish line.
I also feel NHRA can make the hp factor debate issue between older cars and newer ones an easy fix by bringing back the FI classes, thus reducing that advantage as well over older cars. My .02 worth