Glen Gray, NHRA’s Vice President, Technical Operations, confirmed to Competition Plus Friday, the sanctioning body is reviewing the parity in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class following Harley-Davidson’s dominating performance at the Gatornationals which were completed Monday.

“Right now we are in the period where we have triggered a review (in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class),” Gray said. “We are doing a lot of work this week looking at different things, thinking of some different ways that if we were to make a decision to make some kind of a change, what would we do to improve the parity. We do not know if we (NHRA) are going to make any changes, but if we do it will be early next week. We are in the process of going through all the numbers and we are looking at all the various options and if we are going to make a change to be fair to everybody you want to try and make it as soon as you can. So if there is a change, people can go test the changes.”

Gray did take a moment to explain what triggered the parity review in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

Glen Gray, NHRA’s Vice President, Technical Operations, confirmed to Competition Plus Friday, the sanctioning body is reviewing the parity in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class following Harley-Davidson’s dominating performance at the Gatornationals which were completed Monday.

“Right now we are in the period where we have triggered a review (in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class),” Gray said. “We are doing a lot of work this week looking at different things, thinking of some different ways that if we were to make a decision to make some kind of a change, what would we do to improve the parity. We do not know if we (NHRA) are going to make any changes, but if we do it will be early next week. We are in the process of going through all the numbers and we are looking at all the various options and if we are going to make a change to be fair to everybody you want to try and make it as soon as you can. So if there is a change, people can go test the changes.”

Gray did take a moment to explain what triggered the parity review in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class.

“We have some trigger points with respect to performance,” Gray said. “Basically if any manufacturer has just a single run that is more than five-hundredths quicker than any of the other two manufacturers because we have three combinations out there really (Harley-Davidson, Buell and Suzuki) then that would trigger a review of parity. What that means is we are pretty much reviewing every race anyway. We run numbers on this after every race, but when we do a review that means we will get a little more serious and dig down a little deeper. We will start to review previous races from last year and see if this is a one-race thing or is something that is going to be a trend that continues or was there a trend leading up to this in previous races. The other thing that can trigger a review is we take the four quickest runs from a manufacturer and we average them, and if the average of those four quickest runs and the difference is more than three hundredths between any of the manufacturers that will also trigger a review.”

Gray said NHRA uses a very similar parity system with its Pro Mod class.

NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class does not return to action until April 27-29 at Royal Purple Raceway in Houston.

“We have six weeks, so it is not as big of a rush as when we have a race the following week,” Gray said. “We have done a lot of work and talked to a lot of different people this week and obviously a lot of racers have called me and expressed their concerns. Just like everything else, it is again doing your due diligence and looking at every aspect of it and trying to make the right decision. First of all, do we need to do something? The second thing is what is the best thing to do at this time to create an overall parity in the class?”

At the Gators, Eddie Krawiec established new NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle national records with a 6.750-second elapsed time and a 199.26 mph speed.

The second fastest elapsed time by another manufacturer other than Harley-Davidson at the Gatornationals came from Hector Arana Jr. Arana Jr., clocked a 6.812-second time to qualify second on his Buell.

The last three NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle national events, dating back to last year, have been dominated by the only two Harley-Davidson riders Krawiec and Hines. Harley-Davidson also is the official sponsor of NHRA.

Krawiec, the 2011 world champion, beat Hines in the finals of the Las Vegas fall race last season and then at the season-ending NHRA Finals at Pomona, Calif., Hines defeated Krawiec in the final round. At the 2012 season-opening Pro Stock Motorcycle event, the Gatornationals, Krawiec edged Hines in the finals.

“We (NHRA) are working very diligently and hope to be able to come to some conclusion next week,” Gray said. “Either we will make an announcement that we are doing something or that we are not doing anything.”