"Street" Bracket Racing

[Eman]

Talk to your local track operator. If they see enough of an interest they may be willing to try it. most track operators aren't doing anything aside from their standard bracket program and wonder why car counts are down. Many tracks have run a street type class for years and others are starting one. Look at a lot of tracks web sites and have a good plan of what you and others would want before you talk to your track operator.

[Mike Schwartz]

When I started in the late '70s, NHRA Div 1 had an official footbrake bracket named "Street", which allowed any any mods, but was limited to dials 14.00 and slower. You could easily be competitive in a pure street-driven car. Nowadays, slower street-type cars are vastly outnumbered. Of the 234 cars in Pro and Sportsman at the Div. 1 Bracket Finals this year, only 13 (6%) were dialed 14.00 or slower

These days, I'm in the South, where there's usually only two eliminators, electronics and footbrake. Street cars have to face mostly 'pure' race cars, running the equivalent of 8-9-10 sec ETs. Speaking for myself, it's much harder to be competitive, although there are still number of 'street'-car drivers that continue to be successful like the Greers and Taylors.