How do we promote sportsman type racing?

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Originally Posted by boster

You will never save bracket racing . Its dead and its starting to show with low car counts at NHRA divisional which have had the strongest support from racers . NHRA does not need bracket/ dail in racing to surived . Local tracks cant turn a profit with bracket racing either and they have gone to more heads up and imports.

Fans just dont understand why the guy who gets to the finish line first loses the race . With Ford and Mopar building these new cars they want to see more heads up racing . If you want to save the sport support heads up racing . Thats what the fans , manufactures of aftermarket parts and the young racers want .

Next year I plan on racing a lot of the Fun Ford Weekends.

Just ask your self why do the racer watch the Hemi shootout .


Bo kenney

Exactly. You nailed it. I've always raced heads up/.400 pro tree (last 11 years) until last year and I still can't get used to this sandbagging, wanting to go slow, waiting 1.5 seconds for the tree to drop, penalized for going fast, shoe polish type racing. I mean I enjoy it, but I can definitely see why it isn't popular for fans.

It's amazing how empty the stands are when I'm bracket racing and how full they are when I'm racing heads up. I don't think there is any fixing that? Maybe index racing?