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Not certain what size mine is, but most I see are not as large. I'm a gullible old fart and follow the rule book tho...my et's prove it lol.

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These to artsy fartsy for you all??? Legal size, oh yeah I did buy he picture as well. I do agree some of the numbers on cars are getting awefully small but also agree that 6" number and 3" class designation is really big too..

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I would vote for that.

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If you have fans, they know your car! I know this because in the last four years, I have been #1743, 3, 13 and 17, but my "fans" still know when I'm at the race. Now if I drove a different car every weekend, then I can see the point here.

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I got one fan (my wife) and she says "She knows what my junk looks like and my number. And she does not attend races so she wont see them no matter how big they are. So leave them alone. LOL


Hopefully thats good enough for NHRA. I guess I'll find out at Columbus in a few weeks.

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Back in the early 70s, most of the cars were full size, many were 4 doors or station wagons . Lot of glass area. No shoe polish dials. 6 inch letters were no problem. Now with mostly smaller cars (much less glass area), and the addition of shoe polish dials, a problem now exists that didn't when the standard was written. .

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Oval track fans related car number to driver not drag racing fans.
My car has legal size that has been on it since 96-97 had thought about down sizing but don't guess I will.
Mike Taylor 3601

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It seems to me that NHRA has a lot more to worry about than whether somebody has 6" high numbers on their car. If someone in the tower has a question about a car number, there are wonderful inventions called radios that the people working in the staging lanes can use to clarify the number or class designation.

Fans in drag racing could care less about car numbers. There is probably 0 correlation between a driver's car number and their fans. Outside of who carries the number 1 in each class, I feel there is no association between car and car number in drag racing.

What is Force's number, what about Leah Pritchett, or Jason Line?

-now in Nascar, its completely different. People who follow that sport close enough can and do associate car, driver, and car#. ie... Jr 88, Danica 10, Tony 14, etc.

NHRA probably wishes it that way for marketing purposes.

The only thing about a lot of the sportsman cars is the first number that indicates what division they are from. If you like sportsman racing, it is nice to see what different parts of the country racers come from to compete at events outside of their area.

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I think if they are going to enforce Competition Number size, they have to start with the pro's. Did you ever look how small some of the numbers are on a Pro Stock?

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As much as NHRA gets for the privilege 50.00 a year its funny we are worried about the size. or better yet why not let nhra send the number for are 50.00