Ahfs

[B Parker]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

Lowering the index will not help fix the inequalities in the AHFS. That will only help to kill the class even worse that it is now. There is some new blood coming in to the stock and super stock classes but no where near enough to keep the class alive long term. This should not be a rich man only class. I have a slow car and typically qualify near the bottom of the sheet for several reasons. One is my combo is not competitive due to the HP rating. Two is the cost to improve my car would be exorbitant to try to get near the top of the sheet. Three is what is the sense to spend 20-30 thousand dollars on an engine and another 10 thousand on a transmission and converter to race for a $1500 purse. I just won Super stock at the division 2 race in Reynolds Ga several weeks ago. Winners purse was $1500. So far I have gotten $300 in contingency and I expect a few more will pay so a total of approximately $2200 for the win. I spent $320 to enter and another 400 in diesel fuel in the truck. 120 in race fuel. That leaves me about $1400 clear after expenses. I dont do this for the money by the way.
I say raise the indexes 2 tenth and leave the trigger where it is and maybe that might get a few more to hit the trigger. Possibly some retired racers might come back and a few new racers might get started and grow the class back again.

Mike I hope you just didn't figure out your not going to make money racing. I don't know what combo you run in Stock but what if someone runs your combo wants to go fast and is willing to do the work and spend the money and has the knowledge. And then goes 1.20 under. This isn't T-ball not everyone can put the same time, effort, money and knowledge into their cars as others. So we should punish those that can? It's not all that hard to make almost any combo a one second under car. Yes you may have to spend some money, put some time and effort in. If you don't choose to I don't have a problem with it. But that's your choice. You can spend as much as 10 grand for a converter and trany but you can also go real fast for less than half that amount. I would be in favor of taking a look at the index's in the lower classes that loose that tenth between K and L. In most of the higher classes if you can't go at least one under and you have a heads up you may have spent all that money getting to the track and paying the entrance fee just to get put on the trailer in a heads up race. BP