Part of what hurt drag racing

[goinbroke2]

You want more racers and more cars?

Include EVERYTHING the manufacture makes (release all spec's for all cars into the guide) and then have a class like pure stock with index's that are acheivable with gears and slicks. Then whatever you showed up at the track with (a guy showed up with a vette and asked if he could run the "stock" thing, had to say no because he could never make the index and spec's weren't available at the time I believe)

So, somebody shows up with an original street driven car, no he can't get to the index. But if he brings it with lower gear and maybe a converter, throws on slicks, he can play in the local stock/SS series hitting the index. (although just barely)

Once he plays and has fun he starts getting more serious and builds it into a crate motor car.

Then he ultimately builds it into a Stocker (possibly a SS eventually)

The build progresses with talent and $$.


(the ones who won't like this are the ones who might get beat in their $100,000 car by a "slicked" street driven car)

Edit: Forgot to mention that $$$ is the biggest issue to get into class racing mostly because there is only so much you can do then you must farm it out to the builders. The young guy that shells out $1500 for nos and slicks to go 13.00 in a jap car won't spend $2500 to go 14's in a domestic. Make it $750 to go 15's at the index and you might be suprised who "tries it".