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So the "secret" to index racing is sandbagging! Gee, that's alot of fun! I've raced S/ST, S/G & S/C, and None of it was much fun to say nothing of the cars that wrecked when guys tried to hammer the brakes so as not to break-out.
Nope, still haven't shown me where being a given e.t. then being punished (aka losing) for doing just what racing IS, is all that much fun...

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I don't think you understood. The car would run the index with-in .01 without the brakes. Any bracket racer that can't drive the finish line doesn't go very far. I'd love to run heads up, just can't afford it. Heck I'm in over my head now if I break something. I've raced heads up as well. Tell me how much fun it is to line up next to a car that's .5 faster than you?
Doug

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A very good point. The problem, & NHRA won't do anything about it,is that you have guys running S/C cars in S/ST ( for example) & you're now stuck with running a 150+mph car that can literally crawl down the track until the last possible second then fly by you (while you're WOT) at 150+ or more & he "wins"?!?!?! . I can't see that as much fun, either. I've been on both sides of that "fence" & it's none too gratifying.
IMO, perhaps the best thing to do is what "crizilla" mentioned & cut the brackets down to within .50 of each other, eliminate ALL electronics & limit the mph. That would make it more affordable, more dependent on the driver & eliminate (for the most part) cars that greatly out-class their competitors...

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Or just go index racing were you race cars of the same et and no electronics.