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Team one
If you get them on some real tracks for an entire season I bet you’ll see more of a separation favoring the alcohol machines.

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Dick Morgan
I do agree that if you hooked them all again there would be some changes in the finishes. Ross and Beck would also be in the mix.

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JLG
What happened to Triple Bypass? All I have to go by is the distances online and something obviously broke on that tractor.

• it was much warmer in the arena last night so it wasn't as much of a tuning issue for the alcohol guys and they made some very, very hard passes.
• five of the alky guys were running Mitas tires and they seemed to work very, very well. How much of an advantage I don't know but they seemed to all be light on the front so they will probably have them dialed in even better in the finals. It will be interesting to see which diesels put those on this summer, I'm guessing Bypass will be one of the first.
• I don't care if it takes a 600 lb. or a 0 lb. differential between fuels, these tractors can run together and they put on an absolutely awesome show against each other!

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Jake Morgan

What happened to Triple Bypass? All I have to go by is the distances online and something obviously broke on that tractor.
I'm merely speculating from the sidelines but I'm guessing that they might have made some changes that worked well on the dyno but didn't quite like the track as much. To me it sounded like it never really got on top of the turbos like it normally does. I don't know if it walked out of the hole faster than Colin wanted or if it was a turbo change that didn't spool up like they had hoped but that's what it looked (and sounded) like to me. It was one of the few disappointments in a great class, the other being Hothem's bad luck barely getting off the line and then not being able to get it restarted after it sneezed.

The only other surprise to me was Mike Beck's run. It was a decent pass but it wasn't the type of pass that the tractor is capable of. I was really expecting to see that tractor muchcloser to the top of the class and if it won the whole thing it wouldn't have surprised me one bit.

The NTPA has their diesel circuit, and PPL has their alcohol circuit and if the NFMS can keep this combination working then we'll be on the edge of our seats every Winter. Hats off to Mike Witt and the rest of the committee and Fair Board for making this happen, it put some much needed excitement back into either of these classes.

Some side notes:

[*] it was much warmer in the arena last night so it wasn't as much of a tuning issue for the alcohol guys and they made some very, very hard passes.
[*] five of the alky guys were running Mitas tires and they seemed to work very, very well. How much of an advantage I don't know but they seemed to all be light on the front so they will probably have them dialed in even better in the finals. It will be interesting to see which diesels put those on this summer, I'm guessing Bypass will be one of the first.
[*] I don't care if it takes a 600 lb. or a 0 lb. differential between fuels, these tractors can run together and they put on an absolutely awesome show against each other!

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IH-SSD
They could run together but it should be under a uniform set of rules. Take the extra cubes from ally’s back and put them all at 540 then it would truly be anyone’s game. It will be surprising if all 3 diesels make it back being on kill that hard.

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Thanks
Its amazing how once someone makes an intelligent statement nobody has anything to say. Friday night's super stock class was by far the most entertaining super stock class I have ever seen in person and yet there is still people on here that are not satisfied. 3 diesels and 3 alkys made the finals. What more do you want.

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Dear disappointed
I’m afraid you are going to have to get used to being disappointed. They put on a great show. 1 tractor, I repeat 1 tractor distanced itself from the class and you are disappointed? Unbelievable

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Dissapointed

I’m afraid you are going to have to get used to being disappointed. They put on a great show. 1 tractor, I repeat 1 tractor distanced itself from the class and you are disappointed? Unbelievable
I am afraid you are right,
I'm glad you enjoyed watching the Alkys take a Louisville win from the SSD.

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Dear disappointed


I’m afraid you are going to have to get used to being disappointed. They put on a great show. 1 tractor, I repeat 1 tractor distanced itself from the class and you are disappointed? Unbelievable
I am afraid you are right,
I'm glad you enjoyed watching the Alkys take a Louisville win from the SSD.


Ahhh there it is! You didn’t want any of this. You wanted the same old same old. The spirit of competition isn’t in your veins I get it. It’s consumed you and you can’t see the big picture. You also are hanging your hat on 1 tractor that made a great pass and you are totally discounting 1 dss that if it had been able to perform like normal could have completely changed this scenario. Quit harping on 200 lbs they’d have likely been better off to run 200 less. Get your head out of the sand, this was the best thing the NFMS has done in years

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Dear disappointed
There is also a very real possibility that the smoke tube malfunction cost a dss a NFMS victory.


On a side note I don’t think you will see a combined class outdoors but rather as previously mentioned ntpa will have DSS and ppl will have OSS. Then possibly some higher stakes combination shootouts here and there

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gpopper
There’s a couple things that concern me. One is if I was part of this so called “test” and had an alky I’d have done some sandbagging. Two I think you will see a bigger separation in distance when they can run 330 feet. In my opinion in think the cubes on the no smoke tractors need to be similar to the diesels. Just my thoughts. I have no dog in the fight but think these classes are the best in pulling.