Competition Plus DP and CJ article

[Bobby Zlatkin]

Getting discourged and just parking your car, as many have done, isn't the answer. It's just playing right into their hands. They win.

They only way to beat this movement is to unite. Your membership and permanent number money could be going into a legal fund to help fight this. Instead it's going to feed the head of the dragon that's going to eat us.

Most racers have the same view of what's happening and instead of arguing amongst ourselves as we do here every day we need to find a way to unite in order to fight and hopefully stop this.

How to do this, I don't know, but I bet some of you could come up with some pretty good ideas.

[Michael Beard]

Can we buy up about 50-60 PT Cruisers to show up at every event and push them to the bottom of the qualifying sheet just to embarrass them?

[Chad Rhodes]

anyone else want to chime in on the thread i started on the competition plus forum???

http://forum.competitionplus.com/showthread.php?t=6910

let's tell them what we really think, and what is really going on

[Bobby Zlatkin]

Chad,

Everything you say is true. But just taking individual pot shots at them isn't going to help.
"They" are quite aware of the situation and the ONLY way to fight them is with a unified effort.

If we lose, then we can all go IHRA racing, and believe me, that wouldn't be such a terrible thing.

[Bob Pagano]

I already emailed Bobby and gave him an ear full. I also told him if he did not believe me to go to classracer and read for himself.

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Bobby Zlatkin

Chad,

Everything you say is true. But just taking individual pot shots at them isn't going to help.
"They" are quite aware of the situation and the ONLY way to fight them is with a unified effort.

If we lose, then we can all go IHRA racing, and believe me, that wouldn't be such a terrible thing.

my point was that CompPlus has no problem flying in the face of Glendora's wishes, so why not do an article showing the real effects of these cars instead of a fluff piece with a bold faced lie as its defending quote

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Bobby Zlatkin

Chad,

Everything you say is true. But just taking individual pot shots at them isn't going to help.
"They" are quite aware of the situation and the ONLY way to fight them is with a unified effort.

If we lose, then we can all go IHRA racing, and believe me, that wouldn't be such a terrible thing.

If the car counts went up a lot in IHRA then the manufacturers would follow. Better pay outs and more manufacturers paying also. The up shot would be better tech form hiring more and better informed tech people. Ahhhh, but there are to many NHRA racers who would rather quit and go fishing than to "Lower" themselves.....lol.

[Bobby Bennett]

I debated long and hard whether I was going to respond to this.

The bottom line is I wrote an article intent on discussing the latest trend in Stock and Super Stock racing. I wanted to give these classes some much needed publicity. It wasn't intended to focus on what was right or wrong with Stock and Super Stock.

I interviewed Brent with the specific question, why he brought out these cars. It had nothing to do with factoring or anything. I figured if a man had bought ten of them, he was certainly qualified to speak on the matter.

However, there will be another article, not sure when, discussing what is believed to be the unfairness of these cars competing.

[Jim Kaekel]

Very good, Bobby. A follow-up article would be great. The CJ Mustangs and DP Challengers have created controversy. These new cars can be good for the sport, but only if handled correctly, and not placed in Stock with bogus HP ratings. They have no VIN, and cannot be purchased at the dealer by the averaged motoring public because they are NOT street legal. The Stocker I race had over 130,000 miles on the odometer before I turned it into a race car, including over ten years of Michigan winters.

[Bob Pagano]

I thank you and look forward to seeing your article, there is alot of cars that are affected and now obsolete by the way they were dumped on by nhra.