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Originally Posted by Jay Hilliard
There should be 2 classes, Vintage and Late model. As Tim mentioned, 1992 and back are basically aero bricks compared to 1996-2015 cars.
Aero drag and downforce starts to play a big part of handling at 100 mph and up.
To put in perspective, back in 1969-1970, it took 620HP in a Dodge Daytona (which was very aerodynamic for 1970) to go 200mph and now it only takes ~450hp to go 200mph in a latest NASCAR speedway cup car.
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Dont know what's coming for 2016, but they did have GTV (vintage) class, for vehicles 1989 model year or older. So that takes out the old cars vs. modern car argument. It just seem that not many older cars participated this year, and I'm not sure why.
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