The Importance of Class Runoffs

[Bryan Phillips]

Bobby-thanks for all that you are doing for class racing. I truly enjoy your interviews-keep them coming. For me, truly exciting class racing comes from the level of competition (and high car counts of class cars) at an event. Obviously, nothing rivals class at Indy. There are a good amount of die hard class racing fans spectating (many of them competitors) but the stands are certainly not jam-packed. I will say that I used to thoroughly enjoy "Hard Core Thursdays" at Nationals- can remember those at Gainesville, Vegas and maybe Charlotte. These were typically Sportsman only run days and not a lot of fans. But always great class racing when the quotas were larger. I have yet to compete at class at a Divisional but look forward to it. My thoughts are that as long as the quotas remain what they are (Indy being the exception) that strong class fields at Nationals will be hard to come by. Nothing more exciting than a 3 or 4 round class "get-down". Good luck with efforts to enhance exposure to class racing. I'm thinking that most of us will support this.