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Originally Posted by Cglrcng

Now, since the suggested change(s), is not based on individual combo real life performance data throughout the category down to each class and each indiv. combo, let me throw out an equally crazy idea...institute the changes while allowing any class and any combo the choice to dial (using the trusty shoe polish bottle), above their index an equal
amount in all cases except an in class heads up race, and I will withdraw all my complaints already stated.

Sounds crazy right? Just as crazy as the original proposal to me. But, I am all for it. I cannot dial up...but you are attempting to magically dial me down and possibly out of competition currently.

I have said everything there is to say here (to plead my particular case as a minority class member and outlier I fully realize), and still no poll I have seen or
been notified of yet to be found to
participate in officially by NHRA.

Worse yet, nobody here has yet named a single name on who to contact to be heard officially before any vote is conducted concerning the suggested changes. Minority vs. Minority 2024, how will it all shake out for 2025?

Leave it alone or change it big for 1 or both, everyone will be affected if it is 1 blanket change for all in both good and bad ways. The AHFS was supposed to be a cure all. It was evidently just a bill of goods sold that promised all & settled nothing due to fear of a tiny bit of weight added to one end of the spectrum and a lot to the other.

We live in a data driven and ruled society and age, let the real life past performance data drive the changes and not the whim or votes of human lobbyists drive the proposed and instituted changes, in a real life supposed "performance based racing category!" Then, review every class and every combo (one-by-one as requested and when properly requested in accordance with existing rules, instead of waving hands and saying "you do not qualify, it is a moot subject" to get the data corrected. And if it is corrected, and it is real life past performance based, then take the time to explain why, who, and when. And look at any and all evidence presented and available before making a final decision.

I will gladly pay any required costs (T & M basis), incurred to do that at least once and if it gets it right once and for all...as it would be a lot cheaper than the current alternative.

BTW fast guys...I am the slowest guy in the slowest class in the category, but there is also at least 3 in my class that have raced at Indy and shown that they can run equally as fast (index vs index), (2 K brothers and a very fast yellow slow car can all scream at Indy and have shown so recently), as almost any of the big dogs can when no AHFS is on, and when your indexes are dropped, they get
to show their stuff more often and regularly too, unintended results may just rear their heads when they do, if you give them the same index drop. And that is who I am thrashing to catch up to is others within my own class that are so far ahead already (as mis-matched as we are in our combos), that I don't know if I have enough years left on the planet to even catch up to if I work 24/7/365
on my stuff and spend a fortune to catch.

You need to contact your division rep