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Originally Posted by AX_FRS
I know it's based on national results, which kind of makes it retroactive as far as current classing. Any changes that may be made this year are not taken into account when setting PAX indices. It would be near impossible to do that, I imagine. Talk about bench racing.
I'm not saying everything should be half a point apart. That is pretty crazy. It would be nice though. If two cars are going to be .09 seconds apart and that's at 10/10s perfect runs, then the majority of participants are likely to be intermixed pretty closely with great runs and great drivers. If we could get things even .003 difference in pax, that seems like it would be more separate. I'm just pulling hairs though. Championships are won by .001's.
Really none of this matters to me directly. I'm not a great driver, midpack at best. I guess what I'm getting at is if the cars are that close in performance, why are they not classed together? There are only so many cars that can be "competitive" in any one class and the cars in those classes should probably be grouped together differently.
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eta: Because we don't know if the cars are that close in performance. Rick Ruth thinks/predicts they'll run similar times, based on his data, experience, and some above-average-educated guesswork. But Rick Ruth does not get a say in what cars get classed where, and, outside of ProSolo, we try to do what we can to live in the absence of PAX/indexes.
Politics and general efforts to avoid competition cannibalism.
NDs can staff a class, and the current-revised BS can probably staff a class. Put them together and the participation rate probably drops. ND2 would displace from BS, not add to it. The ND2 in CS leaves the BS free-for-all untouched and unthreatened.
And yes, it's based on..well much more than national results, and there's some fuzziness going on there in order to try and account for poorly controlled variables and try to tease out which data points are unusual enough that they should be discarded. Even some forward-looking estimation, like with the initial SSC index, or a switch to street tires, or an aggressively-placed new car in the class that Rick has to guess at.