Lets Root Cause the Detriment of Class Racing

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by DG

What these folks that advocate the above changes are hoping to do is return the class back to being a performance based class. Another step in that direction would be qualified fields at National Events. Making Stock a more performance based class would spread the sheer joy of demonstrating performance that we love at Indy, to all National events. Adding these elements would also address problems associated with the AFHS relatively quickly, with so many more racers having to show what they got more frequently.

It would be interesting to see a poll among active stock/SS racers on if these ideas have broad support. There are certainly downsides to consider.

Darin, Actually that was a leading question for the sake of discussion here.
Some folks just like to toss out these ideas without thinking through the ramifications of them.
Let's try this :
Starting in March, 202X, NHRA combines sticks with automatics.
A guy with a SS/L car can go 8 under. Another guy with a SS/LA can go 9 under.
Going by the automatic index, the stick car can now go a second under.
The auto guy isn't going to like that one bit.What does he do? He tries to get the stick guy to hit the 1 sec. under trigger. Even if he does force a hit twice, he's got at least part of the year to live with getting outrun, heads up.
Someone might say..Easy . NHRA has to put some hp in the stick combo.
The stick guy has to add a bunch of weight, or move up a class ...Neither which sounds too appealing to him.
Too bad, someone might say. This is all in the interest of creating more heads up runs.

BTW..Does anyone think that NHRA is going to follow up on leveling all these combined classes, expeditiously?

Think this stuff through, guys ..You just might end up being stung by what you wish for.