Jack-to your point about SCTA running an FIA/FIM meet and also issuing an SCTA record. In 1999 at World Finals, FIA was also santioning records. We asked if the FIA record would also be considered a SCTA record and was told at the drivers meeting that it would. We did a FIA two-way at 340+. SCTA was running their records with both passes in the same direction. Later in the afternoon, Mike Mangelli had the very difficult task of informing us that our return run would not count for SCTA and we would have to make another pass in the morning for the SCTA C/FS record. We did come back the next morning, made the pass but it was much slower as we had nitrous problems. So we lost almost 8 mph on our record. C/FS is now only 332.921 mph. There have been years that SCTA recognized FIA records and years they have not. The next year, we ran the same set-up at Speed Week, made 7 down runs at over 345, but could never return for one reason or another. We ended up making one too many passes on those aluminum rods, so that motor became a pile of scrap. We now have a B motor, but the C motor and record is history.
