Drag racing Enjoy it while you can

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Steve1118

Drag Racing is fine. It's not going anywhere. However, it is changing.

A local drag strip, or even a drag strip that hosts national events is a business. So many seem to lose sight of that. It needs support from the locals. Some of the guys complaining here wouldn't be caught dead at their local track, but complain and moan when it closes.

We sponsor a little Nostalgia series at our local track. It is very, very successful and we have cars coming out to the track that have been tucked in garages for years. We have Nostalgia SS, Nostalgia Gassers, and old type Modified Production cars. It has worked beyond our imagination. The Nostalgia thing works....period correct cars. Technical rules loose, to make it easy to race, and easy to get the old iron out there. Always cool. Draws a decent spectator count, too.

I never understood why the sanctioning bodies having Stock & Super Stock classes don't advertise with the nostalgia, car show an old vs new angles. Many of the cars in those classes are antiques, vehicles that parents & grandparents had while growing up, many are of car show quality that you can eat off of! Just like car shows or magazines, many you just don't see anymore anywhere else because they are "safely" tucked away. At the races, many are doing what they were built to do. While still not the main show at national events, it could reach a broader market, especially at divisionals, opens, association races, etc. A extra note in the corner of a print or internet ad couldn't hurt.