"Street" Bracket Racing
 

Why isn't their any "street" bracket racing? I know there's footbrake but I'm talking about DOT tires, inspections and driving the car in. I guess I'm trying to say a trophy class where you run for a trophy or a couple hundred dollars.

Thanks :)

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Milan Dragway runs a trophy class but not very often. Its cheap to enter and is designed for rookie racers. Bad part is that they allow anybody to run in it so people will jump in it to get cheap practice which defeats the purpose in my opinion. Last time I ran in it I had to race my 14.25 daily driver against an 8.90 FED. Beat him though and scored my first ever trophy.

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Something like that but put a max et on it. I really want to bracket race but I know my car isn't consistent enough to run in a footbrake race against purpose built cars. I want to try it out first and see how I like it.

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Northeast Dragway, Hertford, NC has a street class. see their web site for details. http://northeastdragway.net/

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Pine Valley in Lufkin, Texas will run one if enough cars show up. They run it 1/4 mile while their Super Pro and Pro class are only 1/8. It's a nice class and I like my wife to run it in our car since she is a newbie and still needing lots of practice on the tree and racing the stripe. However, it's not usual for us to try to enter it and be the only car there that night wanting to run street. We just end up running TNT so that she can get passes. It's a shame but doesn't seem like new blood coming into the sport.

Scott

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Around here there is a street class with a 13.50 limit. Quicker than that and you break out. There is also a sports compact class which is basically any fwd ****box whether it's a honda or a cavalier. No et limit but it's from 20 sec street cars to "all out" ****boxes running 12's or so.

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At our local strip, we have a street class.
11.95 or slower.
No electronics.
.600 Pro Tree
Has to be street legal, which means DOT tires.
It is a hotly contested class by some people and one of our guys runs both Modified and Street in his 4th generation SS Camaro.

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Exactly what I was talking about too!!

Re: "Street" Bracket Racing
 

Greer dragway had run a strictly street class this last year must be taged and the driver couldnt drive in any other classes that day.

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I like that idea.

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Talk to your local track operator. If they see enough of an interest they may be willing to try it. most track operators aren't doing anything aside from their standard bracket program and wonder why car counts are down. Many tracks have run a street type class for years and others are starting one. Look at a lot of tracks web sites and have a good plan of what you and others would want before you talk to your track operator.

Re: "Street" Bracket Racing
 

When I started in the late '70s, NHRA Div 1 had an official footbrake bracket named "Street", which allowed any any mods, but was limited to dials 14.00 and slower. You could easily be competitive in a pure street-driven car. Nowadays, slower street-type cars are vastly outnumbered. Of the 234 cars in Pro and Sportsman at the Div. 1 Bracket Finals this year, only 13 (6%) were dialed 14.00 or slower

These days, I'm in the South, where there's usually only two eliminators, electronics and footbrake. Street cars have to face mostly 'pure' race cars, running the equivalent of 8-9-10 sec ETs. Speaking for myself, it's much harder to be competitive, although there are still number of 'street'-car drivers that continue to be successful like the Greers and Taylors.