Atlanta fan appeal.

[Stocker 2]

Originally Posted by Tim Kish

When the Sport Compact series was created they created the top level (Pro) categories and the series ran a handful of events that criss-crossed the country - no grassroots structure to grow the sport....

When Sport Compact was created, it was asked if there would be a Stock eliminator. The answer was a definite NO. The reason given was it would be too much of a hardship on the younger racers to have to teardown their engines to prove they were legal. The younger group supposedly wanted only heads-up racing with very little class structure. Well the powers in charge listened to them and we can see where Sport Compact is today. Thousands of potential young racers to grow from and a few high dollar teams ran everyone off.....forever.

[Tim Kish]

Originally Posted by Stocker 2

When Sport Compact was created, it was asked if there would be a Stock eliminator. The answer was a definite NO. The reason given was it would be too much of a hardship on the younger racers to have to teardown their engines to prove they were legal. The younger group supposedly wanted only heads-up racing with very little class structure. Well the powers in charge listened to them and we can see where Sport Compact is today. Thousands of potential young racers to grow from and a few high dollar teams ran everyone off.....forever.

Even heads up classes need tech (teardown) to be legal.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Stocker 2

When Sport Compact was created, it was asked if there would be a Stock eliminator. The answer was a definite NO. The reason given was it would be too much of a hardship on the younger racers to have to teardown their engines to prove they were legal. The younger group supposedly wanted only heads-up racing with very little class structure. Well the powers in charge listened to them and we can see where Sport Compact is today. Thousands of potential young racers to grow from and a few high dollar teams ran everyone off.....forever.

Well well. Can you believe it!!!!! nhra listening to racers???????? LOL LOL
The real story is probably nhra didn't want to put extra help to tear cars down.
I knew some racers that were building cars for the sport compact stuff, but the toterhomes and the stacker trailers scared them away. And believe it or not even with all the factory help. There is a guy in Canada that is using 20 year old car and parts that has ran as fast and faster than the factory teams.