Class win

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by art leong

Rich. Do you know how many stock classes there were 40 years ago?
Do you know how many there are right now?
Please share this info.
LOL LOL

Ok Art you got me there. I did my math and come up with 44 classes in 1969
and it looks like 51 today. I forgot that EFI as well as some other classes must have been combined.

My brain was thinking there was more......

I am not a Stock racer anymore and never have been a devout member of that fraternity. I like Stock....I like Super Stock.....always have always will but I also like racing in general and have participated in most all the categories.

My opinion is just that, my opinion. Nothing more and nothing less. I would like to see better racing and not bye runs. When I am at a Lucas type race I always watch Stock and Super Stock some even though I don't race either class. They run Class at a few races and it is still very cool to see when there is a real good race. I even have a class winner plaque from the Dutch in 2006 or 2007. It was awarded to the car who went the fastest. I did not feel I earned it as I did not race anyone and probably would not have won it if we raced for it and others set up their car on kill........I built that car to try and rekindle my desire to run the class....it didn't work for me so I sold it.......

[Bill Koski]

Let's cut the number of classes down to bare bones.
Then you either spend a ton of money to win class and have any chance to survive in eliminations because of the heads-up races there will be or be an also-ran or quit.
At that point some of the same people wailing about all of the classes there are now will be campaigning for no heads-up runs in eliminations because they either don't have the funds to become competitive or they are sensible enough not to invest them because of the neglible return on investment!

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Ok Art you got me there. I did my math and come up with 44 classes in 1969
and it looks like 51 today. I forgot that EFI as well as some other classes must have been combined.

My brain was thinking there was more......

I am not a Stock racer anymore and never have been a devout member of that fraternity. I like Stock....I like Super Stock.....always have always will but I also like racing in general and have participated in most all the categories.

My opinion is just that, my opinion. Nothing more and nothing less. I would like to see better racing and not bye runs. When I am at a Lucas type race I always watch Stock and Super Stock some even though I don't race either class. They run Class at a few races and it is still very cool to see when there is a real good race. I even have a class winner plaque from the Dutch in 2006 or 2007. It was awarded to the car who went the fastest. I did not feel I earned it as I did not race anyone and probably would not have won it if we raced for it and others set up their car on kill........I built that car to try and rekindle my desire to run the class....it didn't work for me so I sold it.......

Rich In the seventies when stock as we know it was broght back they were 50 classes A though Z (no S stock) both stick and automatics. At the time you had to win class to get to race on race day no qualifiers. If you lost class you went home.
What you are proposing would kill car counts, so I doubt if NHRA would entertain the idea.
It would also raise the cost of racing in general. Plus, how long do you think it would be till someone entered 2 cars in the same class. To get this supposed increase in class win money?
Right now those that want to can build a fast car and enjoy it, or build a slower car and enjoy it. Singles have nothing at all to do with spectator appeal.
Back in the 90's I ran a low class stocker. Someone bought a car that could run my class. The driver thought it would be more fun to run someone than to to have a single. I had to turn the wick up. Went 1.37 under to assure the win. To me I would rather have us both run a single. (they run you with other cars). And still had bragging rights. There was no feeling of achievment to me (I was getting horsepower anyway so the run didn't matter)