Dave: Historically, plenty of sandbagging has taken place on both sides and does not benefit either team. Another problem with a DQ rule is the consistency of a GN turbo car. It has been my experience that ET's can change in direct correlation to the changes to weather conditions. You qualify on a sunny day at 10 AM when it's 90 degrees and you race that afternoon at 3 and a cool front has move in and the temp is now 50 degrees, the ET's will not be the same; may be far enough difference that you would be DQ'qd based on some the DQ numbers mentioned above. This may not be a big problem in the future as the Ford guys have really gotten into turbo charged cars. Took them over 20+ years to figure out why the 6 cylinder grandma cars could kick their butts. It may have taken them awhile to make that change but they sure know now what a turbo can do.
If we want to win next year, we'll have to get our team up to the level of the 2010 team which beat the Fords 54-19. I agree that 10 second Team Buicks cars shouldn't be racing against 8 second Fords; we need 7-9 second cars on our team to race them at the 7, 8 and 9 second levels to keep us competitive with the 10, 11, 12 and 13 second cars winning the majority of their races.
