Obviously 2 different perspectives, driver participation and fan participation.
Fans like heads up. Some driver like bracket , and some car owners as well, as they can be competitive with a good package and driver I would Imagine......
Bikes are easy theyre all based on simple displacment and its "heads" up do anything within the rules for your displacment first one to the finish wins like in circle jerk.
SCCA used to have a few classes like what was it Formula V and now I think Formula 2000 ? Leveled the playing field from a $ side to a point as the engine/specs were the same.
I would think TF and TA are like this as well....same basic setups with some wiggle room, and all team, R&D and driver....but heads up.
Kinda impossible to do with the other classes now I would imagine, maybe more "heads up" classes all based on a similar chassis / motor......kinda a Jr. Funny car a base chassis spec with a change out body, if you will.....the fans will get it.....might bring back some of the "Wild Days" of drag racing as well......be nice and standard, kinda a hybrid of TF and Circle Jerk engine rules.....but finding people who all agree on a common motor spec is gonna be hard....then again maybe there is/was something like this I dont see (recently)
For big driver and car participation I agree Bracket racing saved things....
For fans on TV....they dont get it unless theyre die hard Drag fans...but everyone like to SEE heads up.
My opinion...Im waiting on lunch
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Originally Posted by Rich Biebel
Bob Glidden once said on camera in an interview, if it wasn't for bracket racing...Drag Racing would not be where it grew into and I agree 100%.
The early 70's saw participation at such a low level many tracks would have shut down if bracket racing in some form had not gotten going.
My local track had very few cars there untill a bracket program was tried. It started to catch on and grew quickly.......Class cars were not keeping things going on the local level and were not that plentiful at NHRA races.
Rules favored too few cars and NHRA needed time to get a better program formed that kept people coming back and get more participation.
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