FABMAN
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Bump at 6.20 I believe they take top 32. Got to be lowest bump ever for TD
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Watched Q2 for TD and TS last night on NHRA tv. They are flying! First 5 times in TD are under 6.10 and are thrown out. Bump for TD is actually 6.301, which is a record. And one more qualifying session yet to come. Gonna be good!
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The last qualifier just finished a few minutes ago. Only one car not in the teens, and he ran a .20
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Insane! Will be there tomorrow!
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I saw Alan Kenny go to the top in order with a 6.102 Laris ended up going 6.100 but I noticed Alan Kenny's showing on the bump at 6.234. What happened that they threw his time out?
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And the DQ bug makes me a liar. Apparently the timing was incorrect for Al Kenny's 6.10 run, so it was thrown out and he had to revert to his earlier 6.23 (for how bad his light was and how quick the increments were, obviously something was hanging up in the starting line beams to delay the timers). That makes two cars that weren't 6.1x.
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It's getting pretty quick. Will be almost heads up during Elims. Be fun to watch this one!
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What would you change, keeping in mind that going quicker is not an option?
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You do understand that the 6.10 limit is to provide a small safety margin to the top cars to help not running into the fives. Virtually all of the TD cars are not certified for those ET's. Huge difference in costs for most racers to make their cars legal for those ET's.
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You had to have 8 grade points to enter the race .... if they would have allowed 50 cars the bump would have been closer to 6.15
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Barry, half of last years top ten are there. Travel has a lot to do with it. Pick your races wisely for points.
Your current champion lives in Oregon and probably isnt quick enough to make the field so why go all that distance.
Your current champion lives in Oregon and probably isnt quick enough to make the field so why go all that distance.
But no matter what, it’s NOT an index class.
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Justin, of all the races through out the year this is probably the exception or maybe a couple of others could be included. Gonna be a fun one to watch for sure.
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To some degree as you get below 6.25 it is pretty hard to be consistent enough to run for a championship .... particularly when so many of the champions run 30+ races a year. The cars that run big MPH are also harder to finish line drive .... once you get about 15mph+ faster it seems to get pretty tough .... and 30 mph is really tough.
