Now I am well aware that fastest is now how the sport is judged. How quick the car is, is the benchmark to how drag racing is judged. It was not either one of the Hybrid bodies that sat on the pole for eliminations, it was Steven Densham in his old school Camaro who held the pole. On Sunday, the wind switched directions and was more of a tail wind at about five knots. It was easy to see that the Hybrid bodies had an advantage as Horan ran 258 and 259 mph in rounds one and two. Hodgson ran 250 in round two. However, to be completely honest, Krabill in another Trans Am was at 249.90.

In the final, Krabill took the measure of Horan, who shook and lost traction, and secured the victory for Team Bucky.

Now I know that some of you might see this as “crap”. Fair enough, that is our opinion and we all have them.

In not ideal conditions as far as weather went, that Hybrid body was hands down nine miles per hour faster than all the other ones. That is huge. Does tune up and crew etc. all play into it? Absolutely, it does. Nevertheless, nine miles an hour, is hard to take lightly.

There will be another test this next event June 10-11 at Salt Lake City. The track has a static altitude of 4,226 feet, and depending on ambient air temperature, corrected altitude has seen numbers over 10,000 feet. (These were recorded with temperatures over 100 degrees).

So, it will be interesting to see what the new bodies do at this event. I think that all things equal, it will have an effect on how the cars perform in the very thin air at Salt Lake.

This means the distinct possibility of seeing more of the Victory Camaros on the track in the future, and maybe other types of bodies being converted to a hybrid big show/nostalgia configuration for next year.

There is talk that Bucky Austin will be running one of the Victory Hybrid Camaros for next year, maybe earlier.

How many others will take the plunge? Time will tell.

I want to reiterate that I am not pointing fingers at those who created this body. Not at all. My position is and always will be, that it was those in charge at the sanctioning body who allowed this can of worms to be opened and spread all over the table.

Maybe Littlefield will come up with some trick new blower design that delivers ten percent more boost at a lower rpm, range. Or East West Bob will figure out some new clutch that acts like a lock up clutch without the management system. None of this (at least to my knowledge) is happening … right now. But my point is innovation is constant and ever moving forward. It is up to those who run the sanctioning body to intelligently decide what is beneficial to the sport, and its well-being and what could cause it detriment.

Nevertheless, it is what it is, and the Hybrid Camaro body is here to stay. I just hope that in the long run it is a benefit to nostalgia racing, and not an unintended factor to the demise of the class. Drag racing is like life, and only the strong survive.

Have a Happy Father’s Day to all twelve of you dads who read my column.