[Bobby Zlatkin]

As I see it, these new cars don't need their own class to race in. What they need is a realistic HP rating.

The argument about "they're not street legal" don't fly either. No competive stocker is street legal
(e-brake, wipers, horn, compliant exhaust system, etc. Ford made the required 50 and provided specs. for them.

The whole thing boils down to the NHRA giving them a realistic HP rating and how slow NHRA is to react to the obvious bogus rating they have now. Even with the additional 14 HP. It shouldn't take several months or years to get them where they belong because in the meanwhile the guys that have spent years developing their combinations and boocoos of bucks in the process, are getting hosed.

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said already, but it just seems so obvious. I guess the only guys that are really being hurt are the guys that run in the same classes as the new Mustangs, but those are the guys that have the most invested in their cars. And we're talking about alot of them.

Do I have a dog in this fight? No, I'll always have a mid to low class car. But it just pisses me off to see such an obvious disparity that could be so easily corrected.