Is there any hope of NHRA separating traditional Stockers...

[JHeath]

Originally Posted by DYER

I have now raced both type cars a 1985 mustang and now a 2010 cobra jet with a push rod engine .not all fs cars are blower cars if you look for a class in fs cars there are a lot of different combos to pick from just as there is in the old car combos .and if you buy a wreck or a flood car as I did it does not cost any more to build than an older combo it is the time we live in 2018 !!

Bill speaks the truth !

[Michael Beard]

I think there are less than 10 front drive cars left in the country

There weren't many reasons to build FWD cars before except the affordability factor, and then they consolidated a bunch of classes. My Turismo is stuck in no man's land. For what? When discussing combining of sticks n' autos, or consolidating weight breaks in the "big car" classes, people (NHRA officials included) lose their MINDS at the thought that a car might have to add 300 pounds. Funny, my Turismo is 225# heavy for one class, but 380# light for the next. That's completely asinine, and anyone with any kind of "normal" car stuck in this situation would raise holy hell, but nobody cares because it's "just" a FWD car. Once again, a lack of consistency from NHRA.

I HAVE had a 150 mph car wreck beside me at the finish line while I was driving the Turismo. If he had lost it earlier in the run, he would have gone THROUGH me, and I'd be dead. Nothing ever happens until it does. Saying, "Oh, well, it's a dangerous sport" isn't very comforting. Personally, I choose not to race the Turismo 1/4-mile vs heavy 150+mph cars. I don't even know that a roll bar would afford much protection in such a situation. ...course then I might only have to add 340# to get to the bottom of a class...