Pomona on Monday-Stock Eliminator

[M Lefkes]

I am reasonably sure I know exactly who FED 387 is, that being said don't recall ever seeing his name on any qualifing sheets.

[Rich Biebel]

For some reason unknown to me.........there are some F.O.G.s out there that do basically nothing but bitch about how things are.....and how they long for the "good old days".

If they would get a f'n car and race it maybe they would find that it's still fun even if it ain't 1971 and the rules are different, but not by much.

They'd have less bitching time and their computer keyboard would get a rest........

I am about to turn 63 and have no probelm racing in any of the modern day racing categories and never have.

If you find things wrong all the time nothing can ever be right......and your causing your own misery.....F.O.G's and they are usually retired and bitching about entitlements too.......what a joke...get a job.....

[Myron Piatek]

Bottom line, as some have mentioned, without bracket racing or the concept of handicaps and breakouts, class racing would probably have died a long time ago. It still keeps the "driver" as a bigger factor rather than money. Knowledge and skill in setting the car up is critical either way and we have a minimum performance standard for each class (indexes). Qualifying, class eliminations and regular heads-up runs still leave a part of the "original" style of drag racing alive. But the current structure allows participation to be more affordable for more people and keeps the diversity of Stock and SS alive.
(The exception of the new cars is in a different thread. Hopefully there will be an equitable solution in 2011.)

Personally I prefer Stock which still has a minimum amount of preprogrammed functions. i.e: 2 step & shifters. Even in brackets they are switching to "no-box, which allows trans brakes! But to each, his own. Pick your class and go racing.

[bill dedman]

Well said, Myron! Now, if I can just get my supercharged bracket car ('72 Valiant) to run as quick as your normally-aspirated STOCKER, with the same basic 360 Magnum) I'll have a lot more fun!!!

You get an awesome amount of power from your class-legal engine!!!

I'm way jealous....

[Mike Schwartz]

If there were an extra 28 S/SS/Comp instead of the Summit cars, would it then be OK for the finals to finish on Monday?

[BBF67]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Maybe it's because I am so old, and I started drag racing in1955, but first impressions are lasting ones, and from the time I started racing, it was probably almost ten years before I saw racing with handicaps and breakouts.

Drag racing was a heads-up, no handicap and no breakout business.

Drag racing, to me, is two drivers and their cars, trying their best to outrun the guy or girl, in the other lane, heads-up, no holds barred. That is, no handicap, no breakout... first car to the finish line wins. Anything else is NOT "Drag Racing."

Yeah, just don't let it be in a Top Fooler, Haha car, Top Alcohol leaker, Top Alcohol haha leaker or any new car that is not factored with the correct horsepower.

What a crock of.....!

If it had not been for handicap dial-in drag racing, you and 99% of the ones that love drag racing would have been stuck in the bleachers years ago because it would have been a $$$$ only game for a select few with deep pockets. At least a regular guy can race today in brackets, Stock, SS or any other venue that has a dial-in.

And that's my opinion.

[Floyd Staggs]

I raced in the late 50's heads up and had a great time. I spent every dime I had on a fast car. Now, 50 years later I bracket race and index race cause I can't afford to spend every dime to be the fastest. If it wasn't for bracket racing I wouldn't be racing, call it drag racing, bracket racing or whatever.

[pauldilcher]

Well said Rich !

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Well said, Myron! Now, if I can just get my supercharged bracket car ('72 Valiant) to run as quick as your normally-aspirated STOCKER, with the same basic 360 Magnum) I'll have a lot more fun!!!

You get an awesome amount of power from your class-legal engine!!!

I'm way jealous....

Thanks. It's actually the Commando version. `But there are Commandos and Magnums that I'd have a hard time outrunning even if I do turn mine up.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Myron Piatek

Thanks. It's actually the Commando version. `But there are Commandos and Magnums that I'd have a hard time outrunning even if I do turn mine up.

You need to build your engine like the rest of them are put together.....LOL.