No lift division race

[chris3racing]

Run your car all out to the finish line. Boy what a unique concept in drag racing. And oh yes, running on the national record instead of some number on the windshield makes things real interesting. When you wake up every Monday morning and look at the national dragster instead of the local news paper to be sure that your record is not changed before heading to the track in a couple of days. Reading this thread, you can bet your paycheck that running off the national record will never come back.

[Tony Janes]

Running off the national record will not come back, nor should it. That is ancient history.

[Kenny Wigington]

Originally Posted by MikeFicacci

I think you guys are going about this wrong. Instead of penalizing people, calculating 1000-foot times, or setting more rules, a much more diplomatic approach would be to simple give people motivation to keep their foot on the floor all the way to the 1320 be it points for qualifying or points for records. Instead of the NHRA throwing more rules our way, a points bonus substantial enough will slowly force the professional racers and swinging d*cks to put their name at the top of the sheet or in the records books. The advantages of awarding points for qualifications (and maybe records too) far outweigh the day it will take to write the code in the program that calculates points.

That is just perfect sense. Plain and simple.

[Casey Miles]

Here's another way that the cars could be classed quicker then they are now, give any combo (new car andold) that hasn't been run for 10 years, give them an entry level of factory HP plus 100 HP. Let the new combo's race to get HP off rather then giving them a free trip to the top of the quailifing sheet the way it is now. It is rediculous that the new combo's can bag to the 1000' so they can determine if the combo gets HP or not. NHRA should be do their jobs, that's what we pay for with the membership to NHRA and subscription to ND. Police the classes as much as possible, not take the laid back BS that they are putting out now.
If you look at the Hemi Head thread, here again, NHRA isn't doing what they should be doing. The rules shouldn't be basterized for more power, they should stick to factory specs. and castings.
At the time, Greg Xacalis was a pain in the ***, but looking back, he is what NHRA should be standing for. He was a no BS tech person and if it didn't look right to him, you went home! If you couldn't prove that that is the way the parts came from the factory, he didn't accept it.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock!

[Ian Hill]

i think the "no-lift" race is ran on fridays, its called "class run offs".

[Michael Colaluca]

Who cares what the guy in the other lane does? All you got to do is be .00 and run the dial. Seems simple to me.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Michael Colaluca

Who cares what the guy in the other lane does? All you got to do is be .00 and run the dial. Seems simple to me.

Just like bracket racing. Oh, I just threw up in my mouth. :-(

[Michael Colaluca]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Just like bracket racing. Oh, I just threw up in my mouth. :-(

Unfortunately we are glorified bracket cars until it comes time for class or a heads up run

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Michael Colaluca

Unfortunately we are glorified bracket cars until it comes time for class or a heads up run

Aside from a Dial In..that is the only similarity.

We are restricted to rules and have to earn and learn how to run under the index.

Class Racing is a big step up from Bracket Racing.

FWIW time too add foreign makes.

D

[Michael Colaluca]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

Aside from a Dial In..that is the only similarity.

We are restricted to rules and have to earn and learn how to run under the index.

Class Racing is a big step up from Bracket Racing.

FWIW time too add foreign makes.

D

Perhaps I simplified it too much when I called stock and super stock cars glorified bracket cars. I have raced stock the past 10 years and will race super stock also this year. I understand the work and money it takes to make these cars work. I have raced in several different classes ranging from A-P and was always proud when the cars performed well. Call it what you desire, but it is a glorified bracket race with a chance of a heads up. When it comes to Sunday the shoe polish comes out.