NHRA: are you really that blind or just stupid?

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

dude, i just spit coke all over my laptop.......................that's hilarious

I have had that happen to myself a couple of times. Many of the members around here are too funny not to take precautions when reading their stuff.

[Bruce Noland]

The nhra executives are dumb about some things. The OEM's probably bent them over on these deals and the money has been spent already. Now nhra looks like the laughing stock of the American Auto Sports Industry.

I'm sure the NASCAR guys are snickering at the # 2 Auto Sports Retailing Company.

The OEM guys see this nightmare from a completely different view point. This is strictly a marketing scam for them. They don't care what kind of problems they leave behind for the racers. They are here to plunder the classes and then they will leave as quickly as they appeared. This is no long term committment by the OEM's. nhra knows this as well and that makes this fraud even more egregious.

[Chuck Beach]

I am not saying it is right or fair, but I totaly disagree. Win, look good or go fast on Sunday and sell cars on Monday. I think it has been a great advertising move by Ford and Chrysler. I think both of these cars are selling and the racers building them are creating very neat race cars. Not all DP's were fast, Garlits, Pustelny and Lee did not make the cut. Anyone that reads this forum is getting a lot of advertisement for the new cars as much as you guys write about them. By this time next year it will be another car and another story ..

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Chuck Beach

I am not saying it is right or fair, but I totaly disagree. Win, look good or go fast on Sunday and sell cars on Monday. I think it has been a great advertising move by Ford and Chrysler. I think both of these cars are selling and the racers building them are creating very neat race cars. Not all DP's were fast, Garlits, Pustelny and Lee did not make the cut. Anyone that reads this forum is getting a lot of advertisement for the new cars as much as you guys write about them. By this time next year it will be another car and another story ..

You totally disagree and then you agree that it's been a great marketing scheme for the OEMs. ??? Another car next year? Let's see what is left? The Minicooper?

[Chuck Beach]

Whatever you say Bruce ...

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Chuck Beach

Whatever you say Bruce ...

Then the Minicooper it is. Let's all petition nhra to get a triple turbocharged Minicooper in the Sheets by next Indy. We'll have to take up a serious collection but we can get it done if we raise enough money.

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

You totally disagree and then you agree that it's been a great marketing scheme for the OEMs. ??? Another car next year? Let's see what is left? The Minicooper?

No, not the Mini but Chrysler/Fiat has dropped the PT Cruiser and will field ProStock Fiat 500's next year.......already got my order in!

JimR

[Jim Wahl]

I found top secret video of the first Pro Stock Chrysler/ Fiat 500 completed at RJ Race Cars, to be run next year. Rumor has it this is Larry Morgan at the wheel, lured back from Ford, driving in this video! Jim

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/vid...6?q=fiat%20500

http://ecomodder.com/blog/wp-content...-500-photo.jpg

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[aspen7709]

What I am saying in my particular case is 10 years of my racing life and thousands of dollars of my hard earned cash has been rendered usless by a bogus hp factor bought and paid for by mopar from the prostitutes @ NHRA! I am not being brand prejudice I drive mopar but to let that abomination of the class get to run me and my combo heads up is tragedy! I am not comparing a cobra jet to a max wedge or a 427 camaro to a new hemi but this a 5.9 magnum (still a 360) to a 360 iron head small block both rated @ 284 hp!NHRA you mean to tell me those engines are EQUAL!!!!!! Come on you morons even you idiots can see that the magnum has roller rockers ,roller cam, highrise aluminum intake,higher compression plus fuel injection and its the same hp????? Art how would you feel if mopar created a new neon combo supercharged to run against you heads up but the turn key car cost 60k and 10 people showed up at indy to take your class trophy with them. You would be PISSED OFF! but hey right now this does not affect you right? to bad for those of us who fell in the wrong catagory...go buy or build a new car right? thats what NHRA would have us do! This is just wrong anyway youlook at it!

[Jack Matyas]

[QUOTE=Bruce Noland;209002 This is strictly a marketing scam for them. They don't care what kind of problems they leave behind for the racers. They are here to plunder the classes and then they will leave as quickly as they appeared. This is no long term committment by the OEM's. nhra knows this as well and that makes this fraud even more egregious.[/QUOTE]

Bruce - Marketing scam ? Not hardly as they are selling cars and at the end of the day that's the business they (both Ford and Chrysler ) are in .As for a long term commitment they (Ford) signed up to be the "Official Car " for several years ..............And I really don't think they're going to disappear in a year or two .

You and I must be getting our info from separate planets .............And yes , I'll agree the HP's are wrong .