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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
Bill is correct. I personally know more than a couple of racers who will ONLY go to a National Event if class is contested. They'll go so far as to skip a race that is within 200-300 miles and instead go to a race 900 miles away, JUST because class is contested. And they don't go to single for class, either. Nice guys, always willing to help you, and mostly old time die hard racers, and none of them are strokes either.
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I don't doubt that Stock and Super Stock racers pick which races they are going to attend based upon whether class is contested there or not. I know if I raced in these categories, those would be the races at the top of my list.
What I have a hard time believing is that people would choose to go to a race SPECIFICALLY because class is contested there, with no regard to final eliminations whatsoever.
If that's the case, then I stand corrected, and shows one more reason why this .90 racer is ignorant when it comes to racing in these classes.
I personally like the class elimination setup, and don't think it should have been changed for reasons I mentioned earlier. And I could be wrong, but with the advent of the top 128 car qualifying format, I'm sure you'll lose out on more entries, as I still can't believe that in today's economy that anybody would travel to Indy ONLY to compete in class, knowing full well they have NO shot at competing in final eliminations (i.e. they know they might be able to win class, but also know they can't run quick enough under the index to be a top 128 qualifier).
For those of you that compete in these classes and support the class system, I hope you can get it changed back to the way it was.
Signed,
A .90 Racer & Stock & Super Stock Fan