Another low car count?

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by davidhuff

I agree 100% and I have had stock racers close the hood in my face when I was just trying to take a look and have fun.Most stock racers are Super!

They thought you was undercover tech.....lol

[treekiller]

Drag racing especially st/sst is no different from the rest of the world. It takes money to make money. When you have a guy like Dan Fletcher quit running a class altogether because guys are coming in w/100,000 drag pak challengers and mustangs its a sign that the apocalypse is upon us. You wanna improve car counts? Eliminate heads up class racing at nat events and pts races. Why you say? Because it would make it fair for everyone not just the dickjockeys w/the big wallets and factory backed cars [no offense to those guys]. I know slate cummings and i know that he would not say anything about it because hes a classy sumbitch but that man criscrossed the country and kicked *** all year long and lost the world championship because of a heads up race. To me thats appalling. It may sound like sour grapes coming from a low buck racer but if you think car counts are low now wait till guys like me stop coming. In my humble opinion everything that goes down a drag strip should have a dial-in on it. Top fuel funny car pro stock maybe not. Personally I think that would be entertaining to watch because Bob Bode winning last year was a fluke. The Lagana boys the greek the 10 -16 qualified guys virtually never win. Every other class dial-ins every run down the track. Then the guy w/the a/sa 69 camaro that can outdrive the **** out of the guy in the new mustang or challenger but can only run a 10.20 still has a chance. Then car counts go through the roof. By the way its a crime that superstreet is not run at indy.Peace

[Chuck Beach]

treekiller, that is why we have SST, SG and SC, they are all heads up and costs half as much to race as compared to a stock or SS car. You race and build what you can afford ... my friend built a 428 powered pontiac dragster that runs 8.70's, he has about $20,000 in it and wins just as much as a $70,000 pro built dragster .. and by the way Dan Fletcher did not quit racing stock and super stock, his kid(s) are driving them. He changed class in stock to get away from the fast new cars. He does what he can afford and what makes the most sense.

[Harry 6674]

Originally Posted by treekiller

Drag racing especially st/sst is no different from the rest of the world. It takes money to make money. When you have a guy like Dan Fletcher quit running a class altogether because guys are coming in w/100,000 drag pak challengers and mustangs its a sign that the apocalypse is upon us. You wanna improve car counts? Eliminate heads up class racing at nat events and pts races. Why you say? Because it would make it fair for everyone not just the dickjockeys w/the big wallets and factory backed cars [no offense to those guys]. I know slate cummings and i know that he would not say anything about it because hes a classy sumbitch but that man criscrossed the country and kicked *** all year long and lost the world championship because of a heads up race. To me thats appalling. It may sound like sour grapes coming from a low buck racer but if you think car counts are low now wait till guys like me stop coming. In my humble opinion everything that goes down a drag strip should have a dial-in on it. Top fuel funny car pro stock maybe not. Personally I think that would be entertaining to watch because Bob Bode winning last year was a fluke. The Lagana boys the greek the 10 -16 qualified guys virtually never win. Every other class dial-ins every run down the track. Then the guy w/the a/sa 69 camaro that can outdrive the **** out of the guy in the new mustang or challenger but can only run a 10.20 still has a chance. Then car counts go through the roof. By the way its a crime that superstreet is not run at indy.Peace

Spoken like a true bracket racer. Thats why your style of racing was started. It's for people who for one reason or another are not willing to invest either the time and or the money to build a car fast enough to be competitive in a heads up race. It's not for every one but we certainly don,t need it watered down anymore than it is. Theres already to many classes and not enough heads up racing now. to many places to hide from the fast guys.

[treekiller]

just out of curiosity because ill never know how much fun is it really to race when the guy in the other lane is irrelevant and has no chance to win whatsoever just because youve got him covered by three or four tenths and you dont even need to try to cut a light just wait for him to leave and run him down? Thats fun? Dont get me wrong watching guys spray 300lbs of nitrous and doing wheelstands that start at the 1/8 mile and demolishing cars is entertaining but its even more entertaining putting them on the trailer when they try to bracket race.

[Ed Wright]

Isn't there a bracket race section here?

[treekiller]

touched a nerve?

[Ed Wright]

Kidding, right? Just annoying.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by treekiller

touched a nerve?

No nerve touching.
Just you come on here spouting your opinions, and think everyone thinks like you.
Stock and Superstock are performance based.
That means you build a car for the class if someone is faster than you, you change classes, wait till they get factored, or work harder (spend more money).
Bracket racing requires almost no car skills. Your daily driver can be as competitive as a 8 second dragster.
But you have to realize these cars have no class.

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by treekiller

touched a nerve?

No nerve touching here either, just don't expect to come onto a Stock/ Super Stock forum promoting bracket racing and expect all to agree with you. That would just be silly. Jim