Super Class Survey Results...

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Bryan Gillespie

That's great, you got stockers running quicker then S/G and SS running quicker then S/C
and wonder why nobody watches the .90 classes, go figure.
oh well maybe in 2030 !

The speed and et's are not why people do not care to watch the .90 classes.

[JMatt]

Rock - are the results posted somewhere? I looked at NHRA.com and couldn't find it.

[WCW]

The speed and et's are not why people do not care to watch the .90 classes.

ITS CALLED A TIMER IS WHY NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH TH SUPER CLASSES.
THANKS CW

[Bryan Gillespie]

Originally Posted by WCW

The speed and et's are not why people do not care to watch the .90 classes.

ITS CALLED A TIMER IS WHY NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH TH SUPER CLASSES.
THANKS CW

your an idiot, top fuel and funny car both use timers.

[TruRacrMotorsports]

Boy...we have some real smart ones on this one...Maryland must be a real breeding ground for knowledge. I love it when a person calls someone an idiot while showing their true absence of a brain...

I'm glad everything's staying the same, I'm still trying to get my junk to run close to what indexes are already in place....

[Bryan Gillespie]

Originally Posted by TruRacrMotorsports

Boy...we have some real smart ones on this one...Maryland must be a real breeding ground for knowledge. I love it when a person calls someone an idiot while showing their true absence of a brain...

I'm glad everything's staying the same, I'm still trying to get my junk to run close to what indexes are already in place....

grow some balls , until you sign with a name STFU

[The LL]

Originally Posted by Bryan Gillespie

grow some balls , until you sign with a name STFU

*post deleted*

had a little too much "christmas spirit" and i dont want to let it get the best of me......*bites tongue*

[WCW]

Originally Posted by Bryan Gillespie

your an idiot, top fuel and funny car both use timers.

Mr Bryan Gillespie I might be an idiot I do drag race, we may be a lot a like but before I make a statement as such I do think. I never said the remove of the timer would fill the stands but I think it would help. If you go to local heads up 4.70,5.30,6.00and 7.00 they have no timers and alot of spectators. As far as the stops there fine people dont even know you have one if you dont have a timer. Now if you dont like what Im saying im sorry but deep down you know im right.......Thanks for your time....CLARENCE WOODHAM
2783S/G 2783S/ST 2783S/C 2783STK

[Michael Pliska]

Originally Posted by WCW

Mr Bryan Gillespie I might be an idiot I do drag race, we may be a lot a like but before I make a statement as such I do think. I never said the remove of the timer would fill the stands but I think it would help. If you go to local heads up 4.70,5.30,6.00and 7.00 they have no timers and alot of spectators. As far as the stops there fine people dont even know you have one if you dont have a timer. Now if you dont like what Im saying im sorry but deep down you know im right.......Thanks for your time....CLARENCE WOODHAM
2783S/G 2783S/ST 2783S/C 2783STK

When I started racing S/G in 1988 (and slower heads-up index classes in 1987), there were still plenty of spectators in the stands to watch us at the big races. I have photos of my car in late rounds at national events with the stands still packed. Is our current lack of spectators due to a fundamental change in the type of spectators, the fundamental change in our class (to timed throttle stops), or both? I know back then the uninformed spectator didn't even have to understand how the index thing worked, he just knew that there were two cars on the track that launched hard into big wheelstands, and ran side-by-side down the track until one of the win lights came on.

I was at the PRI show last week, and spoke to a number of companies that are customers of my company. Several people commented when I mentioned that I have a Super-Gas car, asking why all the cars look like they broke off of the line. I did my best to explain the reasons for it, and the general consensus was that they now understood but still didn't want to watch it.

I think it's great that these regional associations are having so much success with no-timer index racing (as mentioned above). Hopefully NHRA has success with those classes at the Unleashed events, and provides momentum for those classes on a national level. As long as it doesn't conflict with my races in diesel race series' (where we have sponsor commitments), I'll run the rumored Unleashed events in D6 and D7.

[WCW]

[QUOTE=Michael Pliska;228843]When I started racing S/G in 1988 (and slower heads-up index classes in 1987), there were still plenty of spectators in the stands to watch us at the big races. I have photos of my car in late rounds at national events with the stands still packed. Is our current lack of spectators due to a fundamental change in the type of spectators, the fundamental change in our class (to timed throttle stops), or both? I know back then the uninformed spectator didn't even have to understand how the index thing worked, he just knew that there were two cars on the track that launched hard into big wheelstands, and ran side-by-side down the track until one of the win lights came on.


Michael you are right I just didnt want to bring up the past. Every time when we say back then everyone wants to say we are backing up. When super gas first started I was running brackets and I watched them at Gainsville and I thought that was the neatest class Id had ever seen for a regular racer. My buddy and I talked a lot about being able to run this class all the way home. He told me that I would never be able to afford it or be any good at it. I thought that it didnt matter if I had money or not that if i could cut a .400 light and run 9.90 i could win a round. It took a few years to get a car that would pass tech 1988 before I got to try it. The first year was like going to school I never got past second round.
I even sold the car. Later my friend talked me in to going to Gainsville to another points race. I had my bracket car. That was the year nhra made you have the new side bar under the floor on the driver side so i could not run super gas. They let me run super street. Long story short thats what got me back super racing. No timers just stops and ajust-a-flow carbs. This was real heads up racing and fans liked to watch it. I just like every racer out here has a timer now. I thought I had to have one to be able to compete. What Im saying is when it comes to new best things to make you a better racer I dont care what it is just let me know so I can have one to. Thats the way most of us think and I think thats the way this got so out of controll. This is just what I think.....Oh and by the way a lot of the same guys winning back then are winning today. Clarence Woodham 2783S/G S/ST