AHFS - Good or Bad????

[Mickey Whaley]

the system aint **** new cars dont get hp give all combos their factory rating back and be done race there is the can of worms open

[Jack Matyas]

It has taken longer than most would like but the system is working .Many new combos have been hit several times and are now inline.Along with that several old combos have been given horsepower back to put them inline with everyone else .All that plus at almost every race someone hits the -1.20 under deal .

[ALMACK]

Carguy49:

Alot of those records that are more than 1.20 under were set at National Opens where the AHFS does not apply.

[Mickey Whaley]

yep the gong show and the price is right think of a numbber and tell me what it is?

[Doug McCue]

A new thought or maybe not. Quit putting hp on fast cars, let them be fast. Enhance those cars that have to compete with the fast cars. Hmmmm maybe or not?

[Gary Parker]

Racer A spends a lot of time and hard work to make his car fast.. His reward, get more horsepower and put weight in the car. Race B Does not work on it that much. Spends as little as possible, His reward, take horsepower off and take weight out.. Wish there was an easy solution, but I do not see it....

[Alan Roehrich]

The AHFS is slow to work, at best, because NHRA rarely, if ever, truly puts the emphasis on performance in Stock Eliminator and Super Stock any more. Therefore, as adeptly stated by Mr. Parker, it is pretty much a penalty paid by guys who work hard and spend money to go fast, and there are no real rewards. So long as that is the case, situations where it works will be rare.

If you were interested in doing a search, this subject (AHFS), or subjects (AHFS and performance rewards, or lack thereof), have been discussed at length, multiple times, sometimes for 10 or more pages.

[Jeff Teuton]

Needless to say 'Needs Work'. Dynamic classes such as Stock and Super Stock that change often with new allowable parts or rule enhancement or just smart people working on their cars which are regulated by Static numbers; not moving 1.00 under trigger, 1.20 under instant, .850 under each period just for a few. Both should be moving all the time and based on averages for the classes or combos. It would not be very hard to do this, and adjust some things as it becomes necessary. So far there has been little interest on NHRA's part for change.

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by Gary Parker

Racer A spends a lot of time and hard work to make his car fast.. His reward, get more horsepower and put weight in the car. Race B Does not work on it that much. Spends as little as possible, His reward, take horsepower off and take weight out.. Wish there was an easy solution, but I do not see it....

Sounds a little like our welfare system, worker A works hard and makes too much money so tax him do death. Worker B refuses to work so give him food stamps and a free phone!