Thread: class win
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Old 10-07-2016, 12:16 AM   #6
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Default Re: class win

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Originally Posted by GarysZ24 View Post
Several years ago Larry (prior to 200?), if you won class you'd get in, and the remaining spots would be filled with the quickest non-class winning entries. However, several racers (faster classed?), complained to NHRA about their running further under their index than many of the class winners, and NHRA gave into them. They're was a thread about this sometime ago (last decade too?), and it may have shed more light on who benefited from that happening, and why it happened....
Used to love seeing all the different combos in stock vying for that class win, 4 doors, wagons, convertibles,....whatever it took to get that class advantage.....now every other car in the staging lanes is a friggin red camaro......
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