Has anyone changed their mind about AA/SA index?

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Back to the topic:
I don't have a chupacabra or even a dog in this fight, nor would I want one, but here's a suggestion:
The racers wanted the 10.60 index, right?
Now some of them don't.
So, somebody contact NHRA and suggest anyone who raced AA/SA or AA/S in the last 12 months, gets a vote via email from tech..
10. 60 or 10.75, at the half year point.
There..easy enough.
I suggest the big Cajun guy makes the contact with NHRA

No, that is NOT correct. The guys who asked for AA never asked for 10.60, not a single one that I know of, and most of us were discussing this with each other at the time.

When NHRA created the AA/S and AA/SA classes, the A/SA index was 11.30. Len Imbrogno asked the group of racers what index they wanted for AA, and the index agreed upon was 10.90, and no mention was made of lowering the indexes 3 tenths at any time. I'm not seeing anywhere in Stock or Super Stock where a 0.5 pound weight break equaled 4 tenths to begin with. But the guys who asked for AA asked for some room to let the cars run, that we all agreed on. The truth is, when the indexes were lowered, it brought most of the rest of the classes inline with the 10.90 index for AA. At which point lowering the AA index one tenth to 10.80 would have been reasonable, and pretty much acceptable to everyone.

And yeah, right now, we wouldn't vote, due to a myriad of reasons, we've been out for a year or two. However, we were one of the first to roll out with AA/SA on the windshield, and ran it consistently for quite some time.