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I fairly young and just now getting a point in my life where I can think about getting a car and racing. I was excited to learn about Stock and Super Stock where the fastest best built car still wins. But that is not the case. From what I understand, unless your at nationals most of what you do is just bracket racing. This is disappointing. It seems like with all the classes out there now they could have one setup for just heads racing stock cars. It would be nice if they just used the class indexes to determine the head start and it was first to finish plus the reaction times. I understand there is a huge advantage for those who spend a lot of money, but if you just want to race and have a chance with a slower car just do bracket racing. Theres my young and dumb opinion take it what its worth.
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In the very early '70's the Army created the Army Racing team which was headed by a Lt. and the cars were driven by enlisted men. I believe the cars were their own but competition money and parts were furnished by the Army and sponsors. They raced in various classes and ran the NHRA circuit. It ended in '74 or '75....not sure on the exact dates. The team was stationed at Ft.Hood. JimR
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11-04-2009, 04:33 PM | #35 |
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X-Tech Man I can see your point now. It would suck if every weekend the same cars won.
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11-04-2009, 05:26 PM | #36 | |
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Terry,
You're right. It was Lt. Frank Ham. He actually got a dragstrip started on the Ft. Hood warehouse road shortly after I left Ft. Hood. I had tried earlier, but I guess Spec 5 didn't have the pull that Lieutenant did. They only ran it a couple of years. Jerry |
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Jerry Ryan was right about Frank Ham, he raced a Corvette back in the early eighties.
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