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Originally Posted by Evil-Bee-NH
Well we have a year to work it all out. I know I'm not going to CF9 but like i said I'll help with whatever i can. Another good idea is to get ahold of ricardo@phastek as the trophy sponsor getting him onboard makes it an easier time convincing the mods.
So how bout this rough unofficial wasting time before work draft.
E/T Classes:
1. 14+s E/T
2. 13s E/T
3. 12s E/T
4. 11s E/T
5. 10s E/T
6. 9-s E/T
8. Bracket
Literally we've only eliminated 3 classes from CF8's list but it does make it a lot more cut and dry.
We could have an unofficial grudge class as well which is something I think we need to discuss amongst ourselves. Now the argument i'll see is well we liked running against other V6's etc. Having about 45 passes under my belt now and having been to CF7 I can say that's cool but there's no way you don't know what your car is going to do. We get a few first timers I was and even whiskeyfed was last year let me tell you Bowling Green is hot and humid and not many of us don't have a good idea what our cars will do in hot weather in fact maybe only canadiens might have that argument and i live in New Hampshire and i know what my car will put down in hot humid conditions very well at this point.
The other idea i had flopping around like a dying fish in my head was have us mark on our cars for grudge racing like they do for our classes.
ie;
Grudge Race:
Whiskeyfed [GR 01] vs Evil-Bee-NH [GR 01] on our windshield so the track guys know who's racing who. We could easily make this our own bracket racing grudge race thing as well and do it during open test and tune easily with some of us taking the initiative in staging so that others don't get mixed in or we interfere with other racers we have a ton of staging lanes to utilize during test and tune and we (by that i mean the mods) rent the track so the idea is doable.
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I don't think it is as much removing or adding classes, it is more about making it more consistent/competitive runs on the track. This stemmed more for classes with a 3-4 second difference. Even trying to run Stock 6th gen against stock 5th gen wasn't competitive. The closest class was the ZL1 stock and that was because most all were 6th Gens.
Oh, and strongly agree about not knowing what you got till you get there. That is what the qualifying rounds are for, to decide what "Timed-Class" you will be in. Then don't worry about who goes up against who in eliminations, you are all in the same class and no favors given. The announcer calls "10 second cars to lane 4" and that's it, "11 second cars to lane 5". When they are in their lanes, then you could write the Timed-Class on the window.
You could easily run a 10.5 and a 10.9 in qualifying, and it guarantees you will be on your toes at eliminations as a driver. As opposed to a 9.1 going against a 11.3. In that last case, as a driver, you kind of sit there frustrated that you have no chance in heck unless he red-lights or breaks.
Grudge or Callouts... just find your challenger and hit the staging lanes together, or meet them there and pull into the staging lanes together. I think this is best for after all the 'running' is done, because I know several like to let their cars cool down a little if they were working through eliminations.
The goal is to make it simple(r) and more competitive. Unless you have a Dominating Car for your class, then you will be a little upset you actually have to race harder than planned....lol.
