Tom, I respectfully disagree with everything you and a lot of others have voiced on this forum regarding how to fix the AHFS system. Like most people with an agenda to get "soft" combinations HP, they only have tunnel vision for the FIX but do not see the big picture. Is there under factored combinations, YES!!! Have those competitors played within the rules of NHRA to keep their HP factors down, YES!!! Sorry nobody wants to destroy there combo to be #1 at a nothing divisional or national event!!!
What nobody here is mentioning is how "OLD" combos got HP!!! Class runoffs and rivalries within a specific class. Being the badest B/SA or GT/HA car use to mean something. But now everyone dodges everyone to avoid heads ups in the "eliminator"!!! Given the 30 newly added FS, FSS and FGT classes, manufacturer crate motor GT combos, the dozens of mid "80's & '90"s combinations in STK/SS added in the last decade, stockers running SS, the loss of shipping weights in GT and cars being able to run SS or GT with same combo...all that coupled with class runoffs being cut down by more than half, a Performers Award system that disappeared overnight, lowered quotas at National Events, an annual review period(instead of semi annual) and the price of engines being North of 50k in SS, ya I'm gonna say that getting HP will be nearly impossible moving forward!!!
So instead of trying to MF all the guys with soft combos by adding ridiculous measures on them(ie. checking weight at the scales, restrictor plates, 1000' increments +++) why doesn't the SRAC and the NHRA simply bring back what is proven to work???!!! OHHH and just curious on who will be the mathematician "chosen one" that will figure out everyone's backhalf splits, how fast they "could have gone" with 115#'s out of the car!!! No offense, but I'm not exactly confident in most peoples ability to do simple math.
But keep pounding your personal agendas...just like all the other special interests groups in Canada and the USA, I'm positive that you will get your way!!! If you guys want everyone to be the same...there index classes you can run! STK and SS are performance based classes!
PS: How did that whole AHFS at Indy thing work out for the less than 20% of racers that wanted it!!! That's what I thought...The problem with thinking other people are stupid does not automatically make you smarter than them.
IMHO