[Michael Lyons]

It would seem that with as many classes as they have in Super Stock, that the slow guys could duck into a production class to avoid the heads up thing. Maybe its more of a problem in stock. However I personally have had to spend alot of money to keep up in the normal classes since IHRA won't allow a ford racer to be able to compete in the production classes due to the silly corporate transmission rule. Don't the GM cars have a Ford 9 inch rear end in them? But irregardless, seems like a let down after all the money and work I did to my car to make it fast enough to protect myself frorm the heads ups that I would have to spot someone who hasn't paid his dues in the sport cause hes only been racing IHRA a couple races here or there for a year or two, the same jerk off that would be so arrogant to think my shut off runs had anything to do with him and come in my pit area and bitch at me that I was trying to get him heads up. No on the contrary my shut off runs are mostly because I can't run one of the soft production classes anymore and cannot qualify high enough to get a bye run and so even though I have twice/three times the money and work into my engine, they get a first round bye in an odd car field, while I qualify 4th on an all out run and don't get any bye runs. So why am I tearin up my stuff in qualifying. I would be better served to shut off and get that #1, #2 qualifier and race him for his bye run. So for all the people who piss and moan about "what are you doin?" theres your answer. remember this cause the next time somebody comes whining at me in my pit area I won't be as pleasant I have been in the past... Oh yeah and as far as the division winners get a first round bye, thats stupid. They should take whatever the field is and qualify em in the same manner as each class uses all year and run em in the normal race format. It would be better if there weren't ANY bye runs if the ladder worked out that way..