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Originally Posted by Mike Pearson
It all boils down to this. If you add another class one of the existing classes has to be reduced in the number of participants that are allowed into the event. NHRA has been consistently reducing the quota for the sportsman racers such as stock and Super Stock. This is the main reason that the S/SS guys have a bad taste in their mouth about the bracket cars and classes that historically have not been a part of the national event program. S/SS class competitors have to attend the divisional races to get enough grade points to be able to enter the nationals. This is expensive to do because of the travel and days away from work. NHRA added TD and TS to the program and that is one of the reasons that the S/SS quotas have been reduced to the numbers they are now. If the X275 guys already have a sanctioning body that runs their events why do they want to invade the races that we race at. We don't ask to run at your events. There are no NHRA records or an actual class in the rule book for X275.
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That's just it, they didn't ask to be there, they were invited. Who knows if it will ever even happen again. Its hard for me to believe that 8 cars being invited to a race for a one day program (it was ran on Friday start to finish), put out any class racers. That's hardly an invasion!