NHRA unleashed or is it unlashed

[cicero819]

Is NHRA sending a message to the racing world, come back we love racers or are they just feeling their way through a new mine field. Is this the a new way to see if they can bring enough cars to fill in during the circus show? I hope not. Nice to see that Competition can scare Compton to get off his high horse and compete.CR

[bill dedman]

It's neither; it's "UNLATCHED."

[cicero819]

unlashed= definition for lash is stroke with whip. My meaning was for NHRA to stop whipping their racers. Sorry if I was reaching.CR

[CycloneFE]

As in "somebody left the gate..."

[cicero819]

Cyclone great line, but why is NHRA is spending so much energy on people who aren't interested in them.

[CycloneFE]

I really don't understand the alienation towards one of the "original" classes that has been here since the beginning. As it has been hashed out many times before, they should enlighten the beginners and then unleash them, such as jr dragster, to stock or super classes. It seems that everyone wants it all too fast and go from jr to TF, you burn out and not fade away.

I understand I will race by myself, no crew or help, therefore much above stock is out of the question for me. I will be content there.

Just my .02

[John Quinn]

There are a lot of younger racers who build cars with tubular K-members and power adders. They don't want the added weight and inconvience of working around the stock K-member and believe if power adders are the easy way to add horsepower why not do it. They also want to race heads up.

These are the racers NHRA is trying to bring into the fold. They are already racing with other sanctioning bodies and NHRA is just trying to tap into an existing market.

The Stock and Superstock racers won't build the Unleashed type of cars and the Unleashed racers have little interest in all the restrictive rules and handicaped starts that go along with Stock/Superstock classes. So NHRA has created a separate racing series.

I also don't think the Unleashed racers would put up with the treatment we get in relation to the pros so the unleashed series doesn't have them. With the diminishing number of pro cars it makes me wonder how things will end up

[chris3racing]

NHRA Unleashed is the Pinks All Out of the NHRA. They are sending out emails to racers from the Pinks All Out entries. It's a lot cheaper than Stock/SuperStock at a National Event and according to emails the schedule is already expanding next year to a track near you. I've said this before, it didn't take NHRA long to realize that there was a lot of cars and a lot of spectators on the other side.

[cicero819]

I notice on Dragzine that the stands were empty, why not bring to NHRA 10.5 and some of the other classes, we could stand some new blood. I was hoping that Super Gas,Super Comp and super street was going to bring young new blood, I know people are going to bash me for this but get rid of throttle stops. CR

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by cicero819

I notice on Dragzine that the stands were empty, why not bring to NHRA 10.5 and some of the other classes, we could stand some new blood. I was hoping that Super Gas,Super Comp and super street was going to bring young new blood, I know people are going to bash me for this but get rid of throttle stops. CR

Ive been bashed for years about stuff so get used to it....lol. Good idea about getting rid of the throttle stops and build your car to run the index. Ive said this forever.