Lets Root Cause the Detriment of Class Racing

[SBillinson]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

That would pretty much kill the class. The HP adjustments would come way too slow and would never keep up. The faster and under factored combos would rule. I cant imagine you would keep going to races if you have absolutely no chance to win. Not everyone in Stock and Super Stock is a millionaire and can spend big bucks to race.
Participation is still good right now despite the high fuel cost. Look at St Louis last weekend. big car count. Most nationals reach their quotas very quickly and there is always racers on here begging to get an entry to nationals. Most divisionals are pretty well attended if scheduled properly. I am not seeing much wrong with our classes right now. Hurting the guys at the bottom half of the Q sheet is not the way to grow the classes.

Personally I think the modified cars should be running in comp but I would never push for that change.

It's a proposal to make the class more competitive. It's not the only proposal. There are way too many classes and not enough performance-based competition. Performance is confined to class eliminations and the occasional heads-up run.

The current situation is akin to the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality. I need to work hard on my combination and not just throw money at it. There are lots of guys going way fast who don't have all the bells and whistles seen on the cars in the millionaire's club.

I agree that Modified should be taken out of SS. The only reason I included it is they're already part of the class and not enough of them to run on their own. Given the present state of the class, it would be hard to justify taking them out unless NHRA also took out FSS, GT and FWD conversions. That would really kill the class.