[bob johnson]

Got a call from Silver State Classic today. I had called to voice my opinion about normally aspirated cars being at a distinct disadvantage against the turbo and blower cars at the altitude they run the Big Red Challenge. My point was the blower and turbo cars could just jack their boost up and recover much of the performance they lost by being at high altitude. You would have to build a whole new motor to make the normally aspirated car get some of the power back..like a 15 or 16 to 1 motor. They discussed it with Baer and came back with a decision to let the unlimited class run nitrous. This is good news for guys like me with a marginally low compression ratio that allows us to run on pump gas. They will not run the 0-200-0 in May..They will run 0-100-0 though. They will also run a 1 mile acceleration run..no braking..run as fast as you can for 1 mile. The 0-200-0 will run in Sept.