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Schmidt A103 · 01-01-2010, 12:02 AM

circle track races take minutes not second,so even an economically challanged team can dream of winning because he caught a lucky break.Drag racing takes seconds.If it werent for red lights,heads up racing would always be about having the highest dyno numbers and the most cubic dollars.

Fastest street car racing is one example of this.When they try and make little guy classes it become impossible to make them last.This is because if you made a class that required 6000# cars with 100 cubic inch normall asperated engines on pump gas and powerglides somebody would still find a way to run a budget that rivaled the national deficit to make a car that run 8's and bombed the class for a $500 payout.Outlaw racing took off,but that because they just limit the tire and chassis and allow unlimited power.Putting the power to the ground is the game,and aside from the fact that an extra 1000 hp over your competitor might get you a 2 mph advantage at the big end{because you cant even get down half your power until after the 1200 foot mark},it is a fair race for anybody who can cram a 2000hp engine in a 3000# car on 10" wide tires.

Class racing drag cars iis always going to be tough.Nobody wants to run a spec car like the roundy roundy guys do,and you cant exactly pair a big block Camaro against a 283 biscayne,heads up,there will always be some kind of handicap involoved.

01-01-2010, 12:02 AM	#35
Schmidt A103 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 14 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Thinking about this in depth....... circle track races take minutes not second,so even an economically challanged team can dream of winning because he caught a lucky break.Drag racing takes seconds.If it werent for red lights,heads up racing would always be about having the highest dyno numbers and the most cubic dollars. Fastest street car racing is one example of this.When they try and make little guy classes it become impossible to make them last.This is because if you made a class that required 6000# cars with 100 cubic inch normall asperated engines on pump gas and powerglides somebody would still find a way to run a budget that rivaled the national deficit to make a car that run 8's and bombed the class for a $500 payout.Outlaw racing took off,but that because they just limit the tire and chassis and allow unlimited power.Putting the power to the ground is the game,and aside from the fact that an extra 1000 hp over your competitor might get you a 2 mph advantage at the big end{because you cant even get down half your power until after the 1200 foot mark},it is a fair race for anybody who can cram a 2000hp engine in a 3000# car on 10" wide tires. Class racing drag cars iis always going to be tough.Nobody wants to run a spec car like the roundy roundy guys do,and you cant exactly pair a big block Camaro against a 283 biscayne,heads up,there will always be some kind of handicap involoved.