Index racing is old school heads-up drag racing.
Any combination at any weight is allowed to race (just like in bracket racing). Think of it as a HEADS-UP bracket race... everyone in the class has the same dial in.
It gives the grassroots guy or car owner on a budget another avenue where they can build a car to run an obtainable ET and basically leave it up to the driver to win the race.
The ultimate goal would to have racers build there car to run a certain ET so eventually there would be a full field (8-16 cars) all running within a few tenth's of each other.
To win at index racing you have to accomplish two things very well, 1) cut a light and 2) run close to your Index. Index racing puts the excitement back into side by side racing and gives everyone a chance to win.
Index racing gives the faster, modified street cars and race cars who currently can only run brackets, a chance to run a heads-up style race without having to dump a ton of money into their car in order to compete with sub-10 second full race cars.
These are the basic rules/guidelines for Index racing...
Index Racing Rules:
- Sport compact/import cars only
- Heads-up drag race
- All-Run field
- Any combination allowed at any weight
- No throttle stops or delay boxes allowed in car
- No deep staging
- Sandbagging not encouraged
- .400 Pro tree
- Two or three qualifying rounds
- All racers required to make at least one qualifying pass
- Lane choice goes to quicker car
- If double breakout - car breaking out the least wins
- Courtesy staging is in effect
- Safety rules of the track enforced
