Indy 2013

[Julie Jordan]

I first attended Indy in 1996, flew back and spent the week hanging around Don Little's pit. I remember calling my Dad and telling him he had to come back one year, you just couldn't explain the magic unless you were there. We raced the Hemi's there from 2000-2006 (missed 2002) and it was so much fun. The humid weather was tough on us west-coasters and by Labor Day we were all worn out, but seeing all the cars, meeting racers we had only read about, the camaraderie of the racers, the expanded manufacturers' row, the Hemi Challenge parade, the great class racing we witnessed, well it was all so much fun.

In 2004 we didn't have enough grade points to get our drivers entered, so had Jeggie drive for us. Now it's a few weeks away and nowhere near a full field. Times have sure changed!

Best wishes to all racing there this year. I look forward to all the "live" reports!

[Jeff Teuton]

125 in Stk and SS. Looks like the bump is coming. I think about .75 under on the final sheet in SS not counting the no shows, and about .80 under in Stock. What yall think? Comments? Cat gotcha tounge?

[Larry Hill]

-.879 for stock with 141 entered. I could be wrong.

[travis sturgell 3339]

Larry I am with you think the bump will be that or higher don't no if the car count will be that high. But with the weather we have been having it could be really fast 52 degrees right now where I live and has been cooler all August

[Randall Klein]

Been watching entries as I thought I might use the rain-out waiver, but ain't gonna happen. A couple of days ago with less entries I was trying to guess bump, as I would be about the same as last year at .722 under (#128 & #129 me)

With about 118 entries when I did this, it had 16 entered that fell below me. Of those 6, they were within .07, the last 6 were about .2 off.....throwing out weather conditions, I was guessing that the bump will be .687

Take out breakage, hemis that leave and a final entry of 142 and it will be all run

Jeff, you asked...there ya go

I certainly enjoyed the experience (bucket list thingy) even with all the rain. A great memory

[Casey Miles]

I did my best at counting pre 1990 cars entered at Indy, I came up with 54, which equals 41.8% of the field of 129. It amazing how quickly the newer cars took over the average of the field. At 58.1% and possibly growing. It seems that the factory race cars are really getting a big bite out of the sportsman ranks. The reason that I picked pre 1990 is because they were primarily computer controlled cars after that point. I know that all the cars are not factory built, but there is quite a few of them.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock!

[TinSoldier 3215]

Stock-.82 and Superstock-.78 low car count so far.

[Dave Casey]

[QUOTE=Casey Miles;394799]I did my best at counting pre 1990 cars entered at Indy, I came up with 54, which equals 41.8% of the field of 129. It amazing how quickly the newer cars took over the average of the field. At 58.1% and possibly growing. It seems that the factory race cars are really getting a big bite out of the sportsman ranks.

It is like the Hemi cars, Indy brings them all out, other than Indy, they are not as big of a percentage of the fields(copos drag paks and cobra jets)

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

I did my best at counting pre 1990 cars entered at Indy, I came up with 54, which equals 41.8% of the field of 129. It amazing how quickly the newer cars took over the average of the field. At 58.1% and possibly growing. It seems that the factory race cars are really getting a big bite out of the sportsman ranks. The reason that I picked pre 1990 is because they were primarily computer controlled cars after that point. I know that all the cars are not factory built, but there is quite a few of them.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock!

I would go to pre 2008. You shouldn't be throwing out the LT1, LS1 combos. They were street cars!