S/SS and drag racing in general

[Ed Fernandez]

Is this year a peek at the future?

[Jack Matyas]

Nah - I prefer this one ..................

[Wade Mahaffey]

There is a terrible void behind our generation. There are a few young fellas out there, but most are family or close frends of racers. Todays youth puts maximum effort into the keyboard, because it's easy, affordable, and everybody has one. All sports are giving way to electronic sports. The kids a playing baseball on the computer, theres no bat, no glove in the house. There's no kids riding bikes in my neighborhood, everybody's inside.

The first things to go, are the things that cost the most. That's on a personal level (our level...no outside funds) The Stock and Super/Stock cars will be gone long before the bracket cars because it cost so much to play. Example: I raced a Super/Gas car in the mid to late 90s. I stayed in the trailer and had no crew, minimun cost to a national event for me was $500 and that's nothing today. I raced a little Duster locally at MIR and won a track championship (total cost involved $20 per race). The sad part was about the same amount of fans watching....that's sad!

Now don't get me wrong fellas, I love what you do. I'm building one to come play in your world too. But I'm building a car that is multi-faceted and can do many things, one of them being legal Super/Stock. So I will be doing my part to keep it alive!

Wade Mahaffey

[danny waters sr]

My car is a stocker/footbraker.......I have a lot of local tracks near me for bracket racing and i am also trying to do my part as well when $$$$ allow......

[Toby Lang]

Here's what it looks like from my perspective:

[Ed Wright]

They could use bracket cars as filler in our place and nobody in the stands would know the difference, with zero tech problems and pay out less money. Hope it's after I have to quit.

[Evan Smith]

Wade,

There are plenty of young people Class racing in the heads-up ranks in NMRA, NMCA, and other sanctions.

I am a die-hard NHRA racer, but there are advantages to racing elsewhere. They get to use new parts that work well and are easy to find, racing is heads-up, there is lots of coverage in magazines, fewer races, etc. The biggest thing is the use of power adders and the fact that $30,-50,000 gets you a really nice high 9 or 10-second stocker, the same money gets you in the 8s in other forms of racing.

Of course, NHRA has many advantages, but the younger crowd seems to like the heads-up stuff.

[skills]

Evan that's because nhra doesn't push the sportsmen style racing. Sure they have races all over the country but put little into the advertising and education of the basic fan. How much would it take to send bob fry in the pits to show of a class car maybe explain what the class is and how you run. What is boring about 1969 SS 396 four speed camaro?

[Mike Carr]

Originally Posted by Toby Lang

Here's what it looks like from my perspective:

Best. Post. Ever.

[Nathan Stinson]

Originally Posted by Evan Smith

Wade,

There are plenty of young people Class racing in the heads-up ranks in NMRA, NMCA, and other sanctions.

I am a die-hard NHRA racer, but there are advantages to racing elsewhere. They get to use new parts that work well and are easy to find, racing is heads-up, there is lots of coverage in magazines, fewer races, etc. The biggest thing is the use of power adders and the fact that $30,-50,000 gets you a really nice high 9 or 10-second stocker, the same money gets you in the 8s in other forms of racing.

This is true. Lot of competitive heads up racers in the next generations, they are just doing it on a different stage. If you dont believe me just see how many cars are at Shakedown @ E-town and SGMP in the next couple of weekends. Great post Evan!