How the factory "Package" cars may save Stock

[Sean Cour]

Originally Posted by dwydendorf

And again the Drama continues with the same people complaining about how the Drag Pack Challengers and the Cobra Jet Mustangs are ruining Stock Eliminator by just being in the same Eliminator. It is ironic how they have Brand loyality written all over their posts yet they continue to complain about how Stock is ruined because these cars are allowed to race. It is not the 1960's and the rules have evolved to allow the Car manufacturers to build something other than what used to be allowed. EPA and Safety standards don't allow things to be the same as what the Manufacturers can do or not do in todays world, yet some racers fail to admit that. Now imagine that, the rules in Stock have somehow changed. If I remember right back in the 1960's you were required to have 7 inch wide tires, and they better not be a quarter of an inch wider, or you were out. I remember Mufflers and pipes hanging, stock brakes, valve springs with stock tension, camshafts with stock duration, no electric water pump drives, no jerico four speeds, no Metric 200 transmissions, etc. How many of you would like to go back to those rules? Times have changed, rules have changed and like it or not, Stock has evolved into what we have today. The problem is not that the Cobra Jet Mustangs and Drag pack Challengers are racing in Stock but that the Automatic Horsepower Factoring System doesnt work like it should and hasn't for a long time. Most of the compaints about the Mustangs and Challengers don't even affect the guys complaining , because they don't race at Indy at the U.S. Nationals, the one race where it may really make a difference, running for the class trophy. If you just run the points meets and an occasional National event, are you really losing races because of the unfair horsepower factor these cars have? " Oh but wait, I may have to possibly run one at a points meet, heads up,and that is an unfair advantage." Welcome to the twenty- first century.

Well put, but wait, get the tissue out, somebody's eyes are welling up as I type!