[Larry Hill]

The great part of the class winner format, a racer can make the show even with an index runner. Many times a slower car wins class by outstanding driving or by poor driving in the other lane. James Perrone can testify to that happening at Indy.

I believe fans like to see the big handicaps in eliminations.

We have 19 classes that sticks and automatics run together, 23 traditional stick classes and 23 traditional automatic classes. That is a total of 65 potential class winners leaving only 63 spots left to bump in from qualifying.

So if NHRA takes 180 entries for a 128 qualified field and 65 spots are used for class winners, that leaves 115 cars trying to get the 63 remaining spots. I believe it will be a performance dog fight to get one of those spots so one can make "The Show"

I believe the AHFS will have the best chance to work as intended if Indy uses the class winner format.

The number one qualifier will still be the racer further under their Class Index, this will add an additional layer to the playing the ladder game.