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[Brian Hansbury]

i got 18 dollars now bill i won the second practice tree race last night billy jr one the big dollar one ......lol...

my block is a tall deck mark v gm block not sure if they are the same if so that is sweet .....

[Old Digger]

hey fury what have you raced before ? and do you know what your talking about ? if this is a NHRA sanctioned track it should use there rules!!!! if not dont try and call it a Top Dragster series call it a 7.49 and quicker series. or a quick 16 and feel free to spray the crap out of your cars run them heads up then you will see who has the most money ,thats my impression of what your trying to do here not grow the sport or class like another track has done

Old

p.s no krug cat hasnt got my tongue i am ready to race my 7.60 dragster

[masracing]

Originally Posted by Old Digger

hey fury what have you raced before ? and do you know what your talking about ? if this is a NHRA sanctioned track it should use there rules!!!! if not dont try and call it a Top Dragster series call it a 7.49 and quicker series. or a quick 16 and feel free to spray the crap out of your cars run them heads up then you will see who has the most money ,thats my impression of what your trying to do here not grow the sport or class like another track has done

Old

p.s no krug cat hasnt got my tongue i am ready to race my 7.60 dragster

Everyone has there opinion as to how things should run. Unfortunatly it is impossible to make everyone happy when planning a series or for that matter doing anything.

The bottom line is that the desision on the dial in matter has been made. Not by Wayne or Scott but by Lebanon Valley. They are the ones hosting so we need to play by there rules. Scott has made it very clear that the lines of communication are being kept open on other matters. He has been nice enough to offer a phone number that you can call. If you dont post with a real name or call in person how do you expect anyone to contact you are take your opinions into consideration.

You say tha this series is a constest to see who has the most money. I have to ask have you met either Wayne or Scott? I dont think racing is about money for either of them. They are just committed to the sport and to the class of Top Dragster racing. Neither of them are getting anything out of this other than a series to race in just like the rest of us. If you have been racing as long as you say you should know that going fast is about a lot more than just money.

When you referred to the "other track" I would assume that you are referring to Epping. in not such a subtle way. Not that you have a reason to be subtle. They worked hard and put together a very successful series of races last year. They are making it even better this year. They are great people and great racers and Wayne has made it clear that this series was scheduled in a way to let racers who choose to be able to run both. I ran all of there races last year and had a blast doing it. I intend to run as many Epping races as my budget will allow this year also. That being said, they also had people early on last year who didn't agree with all of the rules. If you read the rules carefully they do not follow IHRA top dragster rules to the lettter either. The rules are set to best fit what works for that particular series. Every track has the right to do things in there own way. As long as this is made clear to the racers in writing what the rules are. We as the racers have the choice to participate by the rules or not participate.

Best of luck with your combination. Hope you choose to participate

We are lucky enough to live in an area with two great top dragster series!!!

CAN'T WAIT UNTILL MAY!!!!

B.J. Masiello

[masracing]

Quiet all of the sudden!

Guess everybody must be hard at work on their cars. The little taste of warm weather this weekend has me ready for spring and some racing.

LVD Racer I can appreciate your loyalty to the track. What you have to realize though is that people planning to run this series are going to be running near or even for some in excess of 200 mph. At those speeds track conditions need to be SAFE. Not to take anything away from what you do but the reality is the requirements from track prep are a lot different.

I do however, think they are comitted to this deal and are going to do it right! I will go on the record as saying if this series does not pan out it will not be for lack of effort on the part of Scott and Wayne. I dont think thats an issue though because I a have confidence that it will be a success.

B.J. Masiello

[Brian Hansbury]

B.J. sent you a pm

[lvdracer]

Banquet at lvd sat! Hope to see everyone there. Great food good people. Opening day sooooon.

[krugracing12]

Brian,
Were you able to find the parts you needed? I sent as much sunshine up interstate 95 as I could find. It looks like some of it is still hanging around.

[Michael Galofaro]

Well it's a good thing NHRA is trying to flat out ruin our class. First by letting screw blowers and then saying you cannot run below 6.00. What the hell is the point of running a screw blower then ?? Now we have 2 divisions that are not rewarding the fast qualifiers with anything !! Obviously we all know that they pay nothing to go fast but they do give some points. YES there should be some kind of reward for running fast - and we have all heard the argument people give about others qualifying fast - then going to race mode and slowing it down.
As long as it is faster than the slowest car it should be allowed. The people who do not like it should make their cars faster !!! And I dont wanna hear you need to spend 100,000 to make a car go 6.40 - 6.50 - because that is a joke of an argument.
It's pretty pathetic that they are going to kill the class - sorry a 48 cars field with 40 dragsters running in the 7's IS NOT A TOP DRAGSTER RACE !!!
It's only a matter of time before Div 1 makes this a rule - then I will just swap motors and join everyone else running in the mid 7's and most likely not even run the schedule and just run local brackets and run some outlaw and q8 races.

Just my opinion I could be wrong -

[td1506]

Good post Mike . I don't understand some of the logic that is coming out of NHRA concering the top dragster class. Just have to wait and see. Gary TD 1506

[Brian Hansbury]

bill look you in the winners circle at the valley you must have been nice to them that day .....lol


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