Effects of New Indexes

[Ed Wright]

Wondered how long this would take you Jeff. :-)

[Dan Fahey]

Why so many changes?
The new Letters are confusing!

[Nitro Joe Jackson]

all I know this is going to make the stats book have more pages (more classes)

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

Why so many changes?
The new Letters are confusing!

The new combos were dominating the classes that they were in and the top of the qualifying sheet was mostly the new combos. NHRA decided to create the new classes to separate the new factory race car combos from the older traditional type cars. I guess thy figure this was a better solution than either raising the HP on the factory race cars or lowering the HP on the traditional combos. I guess we will see how this plays out.

[Ed Wright]

Other than class run offs, and fewer heads ups, why are they all so unhappy? The bracket racing part against everybody else is still the same, right?

[Bryan Worner]

Just a gut feeling here that the cars in the new classes will find a way to make up that tenth.

[Ed Wright]

At least. LOL

[Jeff Teuton]

Just a gut feeling that this is the start of dial in heads up in eliminations. With that many classes, the heads up are going away very fast. No tech, no nothing. A few years ago the trend was lower the number of classes. So the trucks in stock disappeared, then the EFI classes disappeared. Now 173 total classes. Where am I going wrong? Class might wind up being a giant combo, but with AHFS. Then some of Comp will roll into Super Stock and add some more classes. Could easily happen.