Index Change Rumor

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Originally Posted by dartman

What is the end game here.What are we trying to accomplish by changing the system.

I've been reading this thread daily, and have come to exactly the same point as the gentleman above. What does dropping the indexes actually do? If a guy with a 1.35 under combination has his index dropped by, say, 3 tenths, he's now got a 1.05 under combination. If he's a consistent class winner/number 1 qualifier, he'll still be at that point, because the guys who are always close to him have their "capability number" dropped by the same margin. Do people think the guys who can run 1.20/1.30/1.40 under will take out the weight, put the timing back where it should be, shift at the "real" RPM, etc., because the index is lower? They won't. They'll just continue to win class and qualify number 1, but now at 1.00 under. And I hear (but don't agree with) the argument that "It's a performance class". It hasn't been a performance class for decades. It's a "money and combination class". If you can afford the cost, you can either spend enough to make a bad combination good, or you can just buy a combination that's crazy soft, and run it, until it gets horsepower factor-neutralized. To prove my point, has anyone seen a situation where a traditionally fast guy got slow, over time? They just keep spending, or (more commonly), changing cars and/or combinations. Used to be that the sharpest, hardest-working guys were the fast ones, but those days are LONG gone. The people who cry and say the current system's unfair should remember that first, they made the conscious decision to race Stock or Super Stock; second, all they have to do go become a winner is open their wallet; and third, there are alternatives, like Super Gas, Super Comp, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, etc., where every car is "fast enough" to win.