Super Comp & Super Gas

Did anyone else here get an e-mail from NHRA about S/C & S/G indexes?

Dear Racer,
You are receiving this e-mail resultant to discussions between NHRA and the Sportsman Racers Advisory Council for the Super Categories. The discussion centered about the possibility of changing the indexes of Super Comp and Super Gas. The SRAC representatives feel there is a need to lower the indexes by up to a full second. Both categories have had the same index since their inception into NHRA competition and the SRAC feel the need to change is based upon safety and the need to keep pace with the growing phenomenon of having larger horsepower engines. We are asking for your input to further this discussion. Please follow the link below to cast your vote to either leave indexes as they are or change to one of the options listed. If you are licensed for both categories, you will receive separate emails for each, as we would like to keep the class votes separate.

This poll is not intended to be a final determination for any possible change. It is simply a way for us to gather information to see if a change is even on the radar. Poll results will be published at nhra.com.

Yup I got two.

dkp

If they did lower the S/G index, that would eliminate alot of cars that could not run the 8.90 index, and the same for S/C, if it was lowered to 7.90. That would raise the cost of each class, if they had to build bigger engines to compete.

Yea got it too. I feel like their squeezing the little guy again.
N nobody
H hardly
R race's
A anymore

Ace

I heard about this at the Div 1 race at Maple Grove. It may have something to do with a couple of top end wrecks due to excessive braking (1 racer died) at a couple of races up here this year. I dont know how lowering the index would solve that problem though.

a few can already go that fast,

1 thing they should do is get rid of t-stops in all classes

Why does NHRA have to DICK around with something that aint broke...... We the sportman racers are the one's that support their a$$!

Ace

powerstrokeace wrote:Why does NHRA have to DICK around with something that aint broke......
Ace

I agree, in the choices for S/G, there was 9.90, 9.50, & 8.90, but no matter what index they would choose, if they do, they will still have delay boxes, and they will still have people slamming on their brakes at the end. I would like to know more on why they say it would be safer, by going faster.

it use to be that when the classes started that 1/2 the field could hardly make the 9.90 or 8.90 index now everybodies running 1200-1400 hp motors and throttle stopping the heck out of them so they have the fastest mph in the class and the spectators hate it !! I think there should be a mph limit for each class just alittle over what an average weight car for the class would run to run the number without a throttle stop . just my idea !
Frank

I also agree they should take away the throttle stops .make the racers tune the cars and not just throw some more numers in the box. I have a friend that runs super gas and runs 9.90 @164 . I tell him hes a chicken shit all the time. He has the power to run8.90 and the mile hour to back it up but sais its no fair racing the pipe rack dragsters. If there were mph caps and no electronics the cars would sort out there own classes. My car runs 10.20s I could slow it down with timing and weight to 10.90 and still have a window to tune. And no bull shit electronics driving the car for me. The crowd pays good money to see cars race down the tracl not sit on a throttle stop till the last few seconds then come alive like a bat out of hell and then still jam on the brakes early ..thats what all of these classes are doing now days . I can almost bet my house on this if you marketed the worlds biggest super gas event you would not sell 50 spectators tickets. No one cars to watch throttle stop cars runnong of a computer..

I go walk the pits when the throttle stop cars come out.

Bill

powerstrokeace wrote:Why does NHRA have to DICK around with something that aint broke...... We the sportman racers are the one's that support their a$$!

Ace

Because they are corporate DICKS with nothing better to do than _uck with the little guy. You said it Ace.

billandlori wrote:I go walk the pits when the throttle stop cars come out.
Bill

I stopped paying any attention to those cars a LOOoong time ago; right after I saw one go 8.91 ET at 206 MPH. Can't understand how anybody could comprehend THAT as serious racing.

EDIT: Throttle stop racing is not much fun to watch, either. Unless you're hoping for someone to hit the guardrail because of their 2nd launch.

It always amazed me why someone would spend 20k on a engine to run 8.90,then spend another 3to 5 hundred to slow it down a full sec. to run 9.90. jmo