All major event s/ss winners undrgo tech inspection

[THE LEGEND]

Todd,
One of these days ya'll will realize it is a bracket race for the most part.
Chip

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

Todd,
One of these days ya'll will realize it is a bracket race for the most part.
Chip

A good friend of mine lost his chance to be world champ 2 years in a row because the car he was driving wasn't fast enough to win the heads up races he ran into. That saying " It's all just a big bracket race is a bunch of **** " Ask anybody who has had a car on the edge of qualifying at a race where only 128 got in, and there were 160 trying. But heads up racing almost never happens in IHRA so I can understand your point racing there. That's not the case in NHRA .

[THE LEGEND]

I will re-phrase then.
If you use shoe polish its a bracket race. In stock in some cases you have to qualify, In some cases you have heads -up runs, You have more rules but lack of tech it does'nt really matter. That being said Stock Eliminator is a very expensive form of BRACKET RACING.
Chip

[THE LEGEND]

Todd,
Other than INDY that 128 crap don't hold water anymore either. How many times did people not race this year because of full fields.
Chip

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

Todd,
Other than INDY that 128 crap don't hold water anymore either. How many times did people not race this year because of full fields.
Chip

Indy was still a qualified field, this year we had less cars competing. The bump wasn't crazy, but u still had to run well enough to get it. In the past in Division 1 we had to qualify to race a few of the races. That was years ago.
Chip, Tony, come race division 1 or 3 with a A through H stocker for a whole year and see how much bracket to heads up races you wind up with.

[THE LEGEND]

Todd,
go to my new Thread about heads-up and answer the question
Chip

[Tony Janes]

Originally Posted by Todd Hoven

Indy was still a qualified field, this year we had less cars competing. The bump wasn't crazy, but u still had to run well enough to get it. In the past in Division 1 we had to qualify to race a few of the races. That was years ago.
Chip, Tony, come race division 1 or 3 with a A through H stocker for a whole year and see how much bracket to heads up races you wind up with.

If I did come to Div 1 or 3 it would be a car lower than H probably M, N or O

[Jeff Lee]

This issue of "Class Racer" or "Bracket Racer" gets brought up often. And I would venture to say those that are the least successful "Class Racers" are the ones who expound the idea that Class Racers are nothing more than Bracket racers.
That being said, if your on the bracket side of the debate, on your arguments, a bracket car is nothing more than a street car.
Reminds me of the "end of the world" crowd. They've been denouncing life as we know it for centuries. True, one of these days they'll get it right but they've missed their deadlines thousands of times thus far.

[Tony Janes]

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

I will re-phrase then.
If you use shoe polish its a bracket race. In stock in some cases you have to qualify, In some cases you have heads -up runs, You have more rules but lack of tech it does'nt really matter. That being said Stock Eliminator is a very expensive form of BRACKET RACING.
Chip

I have been saying the same thing for a long time and the statistics prove it!

[Ed Wright]

IHRA car counts are low enough there aren't many heads ups. Not so in NHRA, unless your in a class hardly anybody else runs.
One of the reasons I stopped bracket racing and went back to SS, I got tired of giving head starts to 468" to 500' big block cars with dominator carbs.
Don't have to know how to make a car run to bracket race. Drag out any old thing, leave on time and run that shoe polish number on the window.