Re: True meaning
It really all pretty BASIC.
Drag Racing was started on the premise of "TOP ELIMINATOR".
All the cars showed up the best driver and usually the fastest car that passed tech won. Pretty Simple..
HE was the top dog, the fastest guy, the TOP ELIMINATOR that beat guys with slower cars, ones that were not reliable and broke and those who red lit or slept at the tree.
Clasees were subsequently created to try to give eveyone a chance and level the playing field.
You won your class, you went to elminations to fight it out with the OTHER Class Winners and eliminate them to show you were the best.
NEVER MIND how much you were under some arbitary index or record, many of which are bogus or soft and do not show who is really fastest. We all know there are SOFT combos out there, for oddball cars in less popular classes. Is that sort of not the same as one guy showing up in a class who took the time to tow and build the car and qualify but he is the only one? ...Hmmmm...Saying guys that run way under in a class that nationally has a handful of competitve cars running in it and a soft index or record, these are not the "fastest" guys and they BEAT NO ONE to get in the eliminator!
Saying these guys merit an entry over a class winner that BEAT other in his class is bogus.
GUYS it is a RACE!!!
Somewhere where you BEAT the other guy in CLASS then in ELIMINATIONS to win. If you are in a class with 43 cars or just two, you earned your spot!!
Drag Racing us NOT about being politically correct and making people happy.
It is about being the baddest *** guy with the fastest car that put the other guys on the trailer and WINS it all by BEATING them to earn the bragging rights...if Not WHY have a race?? Why not just compare qualifying times and reaction tines to select a winner?? That would be the polically correct (PC) solution.
That is what this new rule is suggesting,,,think about it...
Racing is NOT about being PC, it is proving that there is a Winner and that beat all the Losers. Period
Cheers;
Derek
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