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I think there are less than 10 front drive cars left in the country
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There weren't many reasons to build FWD cars before except the affordability factor, and then they consolidated a bunch of classes. My Turismo is stuck in no man's land. For what? When discussing combining of sticks n' autos, or consolidating weight breaks in the "big car" classes, people (NHRA officials included) lose their MINDS at the thought that a car might have to add 300 pounds. Funny, my Turismo is 225# heavy for one class, but 380# light for the next. That's completely asinine, and anyone with any kind of "normal" car stuck in this situation would raise holy hell, but nobody cares because it's "just" a FWD car. Once again, a lack of consistency from NHRA.
I HAVE had a 150 mph car wreck beside me at the finish line while I was driving the Turismo. If he had lost it earlier in the run, he would have gone THROUGH me, and I'd be dead. Nothing ever happens
until it does. Saying, "Oh, well, it's a dangerous sport" isn't very comforting. Personally, I choose not to race the Turismo 1/4-mile vs heavy 150+mph cars. I don't even know that a roll bar would afford much protection in such a situation. ...course then I might only have to add 340# to get to the bottom of a class...