[Mike Carr]

Yes, Keith drove very well this weekend and deserved the win. After all the trouble and tragedy for the team, I am happy for David, and Keith. Chris said that they would qualify #1 at some point, and they did, and now have won a race, and I send my congrats to them. I'm sure over the past 2 1/2 weeks, Chris has had a huge smile on his face up above.

As far as the deep pockets post, you will always have that. It's not uncommon to see two racers with the exact same combination be 3-4 tenths apart. It can be due to deep pockets, harder work, or combination of the two. The issue with the Challengers and Mustangs will hopefully be fixed. If NHRA were to make the new cars run FX-style classes, the "deep pockets" could all run against each other and race, and spend, to their hearts content (as I don't personally know anyone with one of the new cars, I can't comment as to whether everyone with a new car really does have deep pockets). The DP/CJ cars are about the only two, super-underfactored cars in Stock, and with potential changes coming to the AHFS, the problems/advantages could possibly be negated.

I know a few local bracket racers that tried Stock Eliminator. They were very good drivers. One told me he was going back to brackets because Stock was "too hard and too complicated" and he "didn't like qualifying on one day and racing on another". He also "couldn't dial the car as well going to other tracks as he could at his home track, which he was used to". Another great local driver, when I tried to get him to bring his street car out to run our local tracks' IHRA Div race in FWD Stock. I explained to him the weight breaks, min wt, class Indexes, you can't dial over the Index, and if you run someone in your same class it's heads-up, his response was "Wow. That sounds complicated and hard. I think I'll just stick to what I'm doing".

We need a new t-shirt slogan and/or bumper sticker:

"Class Racing--it's not for everyone".