[Myron Piatek]

Bottom line, as some have mentioned, without bracket racing or the concept of handicaps and breakouts, class racing would probably have died a long time ago. It still keeps the "driver" as a bigger factor rather than money. Knowledge and skill in setting the car up is critical either way and we have a minimum performance standard for each class (indexes). Qualifying, class eliminations and regular heads-up runs still leave a part of the "original" style of drag racing alive. But the current structure allows participation to be more affordable for more people and keeps the diversity of Stock and SS alive.
(The exception of the new cars is in a different thread. Hopefully there will be an equitable solution in 2011.)

Personally I prefer Stock which still has a minimum amount of preprogrammed functions. i.e: 2 step & shifters. Even in brackets they are switching to "no-box, which allows trans brakes! But to each, his own. Pick your class and go racing.