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Originally Posted by Nitro Joe Jackson
The only way to make the Super classes fan watchable is to go back to old school
1. Allow Throttle stops, but it can not be operated by air or electric. Where ever the plates are set to run a 90, thats it. This would also take care of these damn timers and guys trying to run faster then a Pro Stock.
2. Do away with delay boxes, hey back in the day even when i started the delay box was no such thing (1978)
(well it was in Ohio, but thats another story)
3. Staging, when both drivers pre-stage, you have 10 seconds to go on in, none of this 3 bulb then auto start stuff, this would eliminate people that i watch that have a real big problem staging, even past and present divisional winners
Now lets go racing, wait a minute, the Nostalgia Gas Association in California run under thses rules and I had them at one of my events at Fontana.
They ran on 8.60, 9.60 & 10.60 Index's.
But lets face it, it will never happen, to many big companys have a hand in things anymore.
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I agree, seeing the cars lay over on the stop wether its 7.90 or 10.90 is what I see the casual fans confused about the most. The first thing they ask when I explain to them what .90 racing is about is, "Why do they want to slow down?"
While moving each index down a second would make the cars less noticeable to be on the stop by the average fan and maybe make it more appealing, now your losing all the SST cars that can't run 9.90 and all the dragsters that can't run 7.90(If you make 8.90 a door car category) reducing car counts. While that number might not be as great as it was 10 years ago,now those guys have to either upgrade or go to bracket racing.
Love to see them go no electronics and really make it an car/engine tuners game but like Joe stated I think we're too far into the electronics at this point and too many companies have a stake in them.