Lack of integrity

[Paul Merolla]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

Good idea. To those that are "throwing the towel in" and stating heads-up runs should be eliminated; perhaps you are falling right into the trap that has been set!
Some of you must think there are enough DP & CJ's to make heads-up runs at every Divisional and National event on the circuit. Heck, some of you , make that a lot of you, run and hide on the potential of a heads-up run with two '68 Camaro's. You cower at that so yea, obviously a DP/CJ will scare you right out of racing.
I know just like everybody else that these cars are under factored. But they are here to stay and eventually the ego's will have them factored into normality. Look at Indy...I applaud their ego's! It will catch up to them as it always has.

I can't help but agree with Jeff....we've all known for over a year how much potential these cars have, and this is the first time there have been this many of them at the same race...running to the finish line. Yes, it sucks for the guys that didn't make the field; yes, it sucks that it's probably going to take awhile to get the factoring / reclassification / whatever in place to even things back out, but how bad would it have sucked to see all these guys race to 1000' like many thought would happen. They're just plain blowing the NHRA's cover with all these outrageous runs - in my humble opinion, this had to happen for ANY remedy to ever see the light of day.