Old vs New during rounds

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by GUMP

You do know that combination can't even run A/SA any more? That run is from 2010!

The man asked about a new car beating an old car, heads up, in the past 5 years.

Doug beat Dave that year, and John Shaul. Not bad for the first year for the car, taking out two very fast and well developed cars, owned and campaigned by the same guys for years.

And a 9.87 @ 125MPH means the car was probably capable of a mid 9.60 pass, at least.

Every year, another batch of real soft factored combinations gets added. Many of them are nothing but paper, no car with that engine is ever actually produced, they just pick parts out of a catalog, assign a bogus soft factor, and NHRA puts it in the guide.

And yet, there was a time when 50 of that car, with that engine, had to be produced and sold. Now, you don't even have to bolt an engine together, you can just write the blueprint specs on paper and send them in.

Oh, I like Doug, a lot, super nice guy, we've pitted next to each other 3-4 times. Nice car, too.