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Entered in Pro Stock at the Gators. Who's car is he in?
Maybe now Pro stock will get some better coverage than it did at Pomona.

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He's driving one of Allen Johnson's cars.

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I hope he does well!

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It couldn't get much worse. Was almost like Pro Stock Truck just before the decision to eliminate the class.

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Who cares about him?
Isn't this a sportsmen's forum?

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I met Kurt on 2 different times in the past few years and he had met my dad the year before. He is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. The first day he was testing in Roy Hills cars my son and I went to Piedmont Dragway to park out trailer for a 3 day race and I noticed who it was, we walked up on the starting line and Kurt stopped what he was doing to walk over to my son in his Nascar Driving suit and say, "my name is Kurt Bush nice to meet you"....my son was 9 feet tall. He remember talking to my dad and for a first timer in a lenco car he was very smooth and went 4.80 in his first all out pass 1/8 mile.

I saw a marketing survey that only 1% of Americans know of drag racing on a local level, anything we can do to get positive press to double our fan base would be huge.

Herb Jr

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Maybe the Busch thing will be good for Pro Stock as will probably get airtime on the nascar talk shows during week leading up to Gators,the PR can't hurt and will bring some viewers. My fear is though Pro Stock coverage next week could degenerate into the Kurt Busch Show if he qualifies. Of course this also means we'll be getting Force's expert opinions about nascar. I'm not expecting miracles, but will be thankful if Pro Stock recieves an extra minute or two of coverage.

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The way I see it, NASCAR has the biggest group of motorsports fans in North America by far, and anything that causes some of them to notice drag racing and maybe become fans of our sport is a good thing. You can bet there will be many people tuning into the Pro Stock coverage of the Gators that never did before, and also that the NASCAR-oriented media will give it a lot of attention.

We need all the extra publicity we can get; especially with the apparent need to reverse a current slump in drag racing attendance & participation.

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That is amazing. I believe it for sure. I have been making it a point to invite people to the race track these days that in the past I would not of.

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If Kurt gets in to the program will get the sport on the racing news for more than 2 minutes like normal.. That has to help....


Wayne

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The way I see it, Kurt Busch delivered in grand style; creating a huge amount of publicity for drag racing over the last few weeks. I'm sure it'll be mentioned more during the coverage of this weekend's NASCAR race in Bristol too. Everything I heard him say about drag racing was very complimentary. Here's a recent interview:

http://www.nhra.com/story/2011/3/16/...eleconference/

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I think Kurt Busch did a great job driving and with the tv air time he got on ESPN was all positive for our sport of drag racing.

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I watched the races last weekend. Both John Force and Kurt Bush lost in the first round, however Bush had more air time than Force, both being first round loser's.

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who ?? i was more concerned about Super stock and stock that some one named kurt bushed

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Im with Don on this....who really cares. Did it help with the problems we have in stock and S/S any? NO....its all a marketing farce just because Kurt Bashed is a super star on the NASCAR circuit.

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All the local papers had big stories on Busch getting beat in the first round of Pro stock at the NHRA Gatornationals this last weekend,but no info on the winners,or anything else about the race!!!!

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The speed channel show I saw was running a ticker tape on the bottom and it mentioned Line defeating Anderson and then stated Enders defeated Busch. When have they ever mentioned a first round loss?

The show highlight was when they questioned why Carl Edwards was not penalized after his team allowed a tire to roll away from his pit area during a stop in the race he won. Seems questionable rulings are everywhere.

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You don't need to watch that show if you are looking for S/SS... Just tune in right here on class racer for your latest and greatest info.........You know there are a few pro guys racing in stock ,but you never here about them either.......Think about it....We are the low man on the totum pole........SAD but true....

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Wife passed me the paper the other day. "oh look, there is something about dragracing here".
The more I read, the madder I got.
-Note to the stick and ball $%^&holes at reuters-
1) The cars are in a "PIT " not a "paddock"
2) Kurt "QUALIFIED" 23rd, not "was seeded in the 23rd spot"

The whole thing was very poorly written and was off the mark on every nuance of the sport.
Obviously the clown didn't even watch stockcar racing or any other form of motorsports
either.
Not sure if I agree with "any news is better than no news". This certainly didn't help dragracing in anyway, maybe showed a professional driver from the vaunted nascar can't step in and show lowly dragracers how to drive.

And I echo the sentiment, this is a sportsman forum, Kurt who?

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maybe if he had been driving one of Teutons cars.................

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I'm impressed he made the show. Good for him.

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I agree with you Ed, most impressive for a rookie in such a highly contested and very tough pro class.

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Yup, you have to give him credit. Jim