Interest in Modified?

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Venice, Hi Car turned out pretty good, took longer than I thought to finish, working full time and trying to build a car in less than a year by yourself was a tough road. I did finally get it going however really late in the year only managed to get to the Jegs Sports nats at Columbus and the Osceola points race. I'm fairly pleased with initial results, but still have some issues to iron out. Hopefully I'll be ready to go in the spring. As for the IHRA SS NOT being a joke as posted by someone else just look at the qualifying sheets at most any race, then tell me the same thing. Thanks Joe Buchanan SS/AX SS/BX 3117

[Ven302]

Hey Joe!

It would be way to cool for IHRA to bring back modified, I am "all in" as I am sure Jamie would be too.
Might keep our buddy Donn from "retiring" huh?. I love having a modified car (even though its in SS) it is all I have ever wanted to do since seeing Don Bowles Fairmont when I was a kid. I drool at the thought of the high winding cars all racing each other off of records or indexes or whatever, but no chalk! The shame of all this is that IHRA probably could not administer the class fairly, look what happened to Top Stock.
Its not the people at the ground level, its the management that promotes the laissez faire attitude towards this type of racing "too much work". It would be really neat to let the 5 oh cars and the early type modifieds and heck even some of the surviving imports with the turbo motors race "Head Up" with a handicapped start and no break out!

It is probably all moot now that most of the front drive GT conversions are subtly disguised Comp cars. lets face it, we probably are racing in modified (with chalk) what with the ported heads and conversion cars. I know I am generalizing but hasn't stock really become super, and Super Stock is teetering on being modified? If I remember you could not do to the heads then what the "ss" guys are doing now.( I bet somebody will correct me)

Any how I do believe in positive posting and if it were ever to bear fruit, I know I can speak for two crazy Canadians that would be in the tech line up, no matter how slow we were!

Joe I never got to see the new car, how did it turn out?

Venice
SS/CS
3041

[randy wilson]

vev 302 i like your approach and gutsy attitude. we also run cs when we venture out.

[Doyle Evans]

I know there's a lot of interest. I also understand Rusty's point. But who knows if even stock and super stock will survive.

But you can put me in. I would love to run modified again in my old vette.
I think there are a lot of other racers too. I still have fans come up and ask about the "good ole days" and wondering if the class will ever come back.

Doyle Evans

[sst1988]

Originally Posted by buzzinhalfdozen

I've seen a lot of mention of "bring back modified" I guess my question would be, Who's interested? The way I see it they(IHRA) would have no clue that racers would like to see a return of Modified or a similar eliminator without getting input from the racers. I for one believe that there is sufficient interest in a class such as this, obviously there were some problems with Modified as it was contested prior to it's demise. What would you change if anything with regard to the class? What do you believe would be the best way of swaying IHRA to consider such a move? Let's face it Class racing in IHRA is pretty much a joke IMO. Joe Buchanan SS/AX SS/BX 3117

who would be interested?------------------ ANTHONY BARTOZZI. THE GREATEST MODIFIED DRIVER EVERY.

[John Leichtamer Jr]

I DON'T THINK SO. Paul Mercure had his but sittin in a modified more than anybody.Plus real modifieds had three pedals, not like these sissy automatic, button leavin,selinoid shifted,so called modified cars

Ernie Price is still livin the dream...


Hammer

Nothing against A.B. he is a great driver

[sst1988]

Originally Posted by John Leichtamer Jr

I DON'T THINK SO. Paul Mercure had his but sittin in a modified more than anybody.Plus real modifieds had three pedals, not like these sissy automatic, button leavin,selinoid shifted,so called modified cars

Ernie Price is still livin the dream...


Hammer

Nothing against A.B. he is a great driver

Anthony Bertozzi
Given the way the 2007 season turned out for Anthony Bertozzi, he should think about taking it easy more often.
That's because even though the he followed through with his plan to spend a large portion of the summer relaxing in Virginia Beach, Bertozzi, 41, still managed to pull off a rare feat by capturing both the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock IHRA World Championships.

No one has ever won both the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock championships in the same season before, but 2007 was the fourth time that Bertozzi has won two IHRA championships in the same season. In 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000, he won the top honors in both the Super Stock and Modified Divisions. Including the two championships he won in 2007, Bertozzi has won 16 IHRA world championships and one NHRA championship.

"I loved the old Modified division because that was a non-electronics class," he says. Bertozzi was the IHRA Modified champion in 1994 through 1997 and again in 1999 and 2000. IHRA dropped the Modified division from its championship slate after the 2002 season

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Mr. Herb, Race sounds like a great idea, would be excellent if week before Rock, since I live in Ohio. This way I could just stay over and attend nat. event the following weekend. That would be a good break from the hard winters here. Thanks Joe Buchanan As a kicker maybe we could get some people with some "pull" to maybe hit up some sponsors, Maybe some cash or free stuff, you know racers love free stuff.

[Ven302]

If I was together I would be there, We would need to leave the stuff somewhere too. so I could fly home,
I probably wont be ready until later in the year ( if I am lucky)

SS/CS with an Automatic, sorry

[Joey Bohannon]

I would love to see the class revisited, I for one would start building a new car tomorrow if IHRA was to reinstate the class. My Father lost 95% of his interest in racing when IHRA killed the class and My Brother and I would build a car in an instant just because we know how much he thought of that class. Of course we were one of those dreaded G/Econo Dragster groups, and that is what we would build if the class was reborn. Man those were some good times!

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