Sticks & Autos Together (Class)

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Originally Posted by MikeFicacci

NHRA has made a change to class so that sticks and autos with only one car in the class will run together. I think this is a great idea and they should have combined the two full time years ago. What is the latest qualm with doing so? It will increase the likelihood of heads-up runs and the advantages/disadvantages of each seem to be more and more minimal as automatic transmission technology has caught up and potentially passed that of manual transmissions. The records are very similar with most automatics being faster. I know this has been brought up before but I still fail to see why it would be so problematic.

I agree.... Yes, the automatic transmission technology has come a long way since the 70's and back then I only ran a stick cause they were faster. With today's auto's, you also have the updated option's with an automatic which makes them just as fast or faster than a stick...Take a look at a PSC computer contolled TCM programer. I can dial in the shift points with one touch on my lap top key pad. Put it in "D" for dumb and let er buck without manually shifting a gear with no tach or shift light. I'd love to see a clucthless allowed in Stock. Just my .02.