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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
Well on THAT we can both agree!
I often wonder what the Racers would think if we went back to the pre-AHFS days when a Tech Official just walked up to you at a race and told you that you just got 10 HP(!) and now you have to run this class and weigh this much!
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Welcome to my life as I am living it now and always have 110HP, now 105HP, but when I wasn't racing it 99HP. (Same car, same data, same factory HP rating, same Index, different class, and zero same combo performance data to even compare to...every pass on the exact combo they have are just my runs from the model year forward).
The differences I can find is the shipping wt. listed in the guide is slightly lighter (124 lbs.), than the shipping wt. published in the brochure leading to a lower natural class of DF/S instead of EF/S by 15 lbs., the eventual combining of the FWD classes (leading to a downgrade from EF/SA, FF/SA and GF/SA (where I ran it up 1 class wt. Break at 110HP in the early-mid 90s), as it called out for a natural class fit of FF/SA then. But the issue has always been the shipping weight listed and someone pulling the factoring out of their butt instead of actually being real life performance based data...11 hp or 6 hp on a factory rated 99hp is bovine feces dead wrong.
Don't pile on 3/10ths index reduction without correcting the glaring issues and kill off my combo please, as I am pedaling as fast as I can. And I am thrashing and spending all that I can and more just to make the attempt to keep up and still pay the entry fees and fuel costs to keep attending every event and compete in that I can get the car to.
My lobbying power is small, my mouth is big I know, but my struggles are real, and I am outgunned as is, piling more on top of it is not the answer. These are category wide issues, pleasing the minority at the top has large effects to the classes at the bottom...huge effects.
Definitely in my case specific potential combo killing effects.