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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
It is not the single car class runs that have driven the sponsors away BUT there are more single car classes because of way to many classes in both stock and S/S . To many classes equals way to many class winners for the sponsors to support with the advertising buget they have in todays economy. Simple math.....What do you guys not understand? Its time to reduce/combine/drop some or just race the way it is and forget about class win money. Theres always the eliminator to win. The sponsors are not posting class win $$$$ just to pay for your entry fees and fuel bills to get to and from the races.
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Terry, does IHRA have any class eliminations for Stock, with contingency payouts? Considering that you are always saying how great IHRA is, and that NHRA has too many classes, did you forget that with all the crate motor, pure stock, GT, truck FI etc divisions, that IHRA has over twice as many Stock classes as NHRA? Plus the car counts in Stock at an IHRA race are usually less than half of a NHRA national.
As for racing an "oddball" combo, I race a 85 5.0 Mustang in M/S, there may only be 5 or 6 other guys running this combination, thats not my fault. I`ll bet that Ford sold many times more 5.0 stick Mustangs in 85 than MoPar sold Max Wedges, or Hemis or Chevy sold 427 Camaros, the fact that many don`t want to run a relative slow car is possible, but considering how many 5.0 Mustangs I see at the local Street Legal races leads me to believe that a 5.0 Mustang is hardly an rare,obscure, oddball car, regardless of how few run them is Stock or S/S.