Pure Stock at divisionals, why not?

[X-TECH MAN]

Look out Ed. The older and young guys on here will jump on you like they do me over talking about Indy being to long, to expensive and just to much Pro junk there.....LOL.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

Look out Ed. The older and young guys on here will jump on you like they do me over talking about Indy being to long, to expensive and just to much Pro junk there.....LOL.

Terry,I can't really comment on Indy,never been there.And with the current format and car I drive I probably never will.

[cicero819]

Hi Ed, thanks again for the pills, tonight I feel real mellllllllllllow... No I don't want NHRA to make the money, the money the fans individually gives, goes on a board and is paid to the drivers because the fans want their racers to not go broke and come back and race again and again. Gary Richards could invest his money in TV or radio ads that would give him a thousand percent better return than investing in Div 1 racing but he does it because he wants and enjoys racing at those tracks, so why not support them I'm sure is his thinking. All I'm saying is we have to do something and sometime you have to put some of your own sweat and money behind. I've helped financially in the past our local track with some money when they couldn't make a full-purse to pay the racers, I did it because it helped them but also made sure that I had a track to race at. We have to look at the big picture. Ed it's too bad that you're not in Indy, we need different brands in stock, it's going to be CJ and DP country out there. They should be moved to Factory Stock, thus eliminating all the B.S. NHRA is causing older combinations.Claude

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Terry,I can't really comment on Indy,never been there.And with the current format and car I drive I probably never will.

Ed.....You should go at least ONCE if only to watch class run offs in stock and S/S. Make it part of your "Bucket List" . The rest of the circus isnt worth watching.

[Michael Beard]

I got to go once, and it was enough for me, to be honest. The atmosphere was great (not the DA, but the people and the scene!), and there was some good racing here and there, but the 1000' racing is a turnoff. With less classes and more racing it would be unbelievable. In my opinion, the Indy of today is no comparison to the US Class Nationals.

[Mike Taylor 3601]

Watching class @ Indy is on my bucket list as is running @ Indy. I got to go in 07 on Sat.,Sun we left home @ 3am so we could be there a 7 am to see stockers run,Sunday night we stayed to around 11pm watching stock and super stock they announced 1 time that I heard that there was sportsman classes runnning later,none of the guys I was with even heard it.
The last 9 of 10 years I go on Sunday to Lucas oil @ Bowling Green I leave the house around 5am so I get there in time for first round of stock& ss well sometimes Sunday is second round.
I have been working my whole life to race on div. & natl. level ,dreaming of it since I was 4-5 years old working @ it since I was 18, now 43 still trying to get there,life keeps getting in my way,but I have this bad habit of keeping my priorities in order,my family and business have to come before racing.

I've been watching this post and my question is what is wrong with the pure stock that is already in existence in IHRA and has been for many years?
Mike Taylor 3601

[THE LEGEND]

Mike,
I'm with you on the Indy thing. When I was a kid every year daddy would say we are going to the Gators this year. Something always happened, and never got to go. As a kid I always wanted to run INDY once. Everyone that has been says WHY?? I guess the same reason a dog licks his nuts CAUSE HE CAN. I don't know why. Have you ever listened to people talking about Bonneville salt flats. Same thing. It's INDY.
I guess my bucket list will include That trip to the Gators we never took and a trip to INDY.
By the way I'm 47
CHip JOhnson

[Ed Fernandez]

Quote Mike Taylor:I've been watching this post and my question is what is wrong with the pure stock that is already in existence in IHRA and has been for many years?
Mike Taylor 3601

Mike Ihra brought in P/S due to a dying Stock Elim. class.For IHRA it helped save it.
NHRA has enough eligible cars.Realisticly a car running with an engine it never came with,having an aluminum manifold and Holley carb. and HP factor plucked out of thin air
(sorta like the CJs and DP cars) really isn't in the spirit of Stock Elim.And I know,the CJs and DP cars.Another fiasco.One fiasco is enough.

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Quote Mike Taylor:I've been watching this post and my question is what is wrong with the pure stock that is already in existence in IHRA and has been for many years?
Mike Taylor 3601

Mike Ihra brought in P/S due to a dying Stock Elim. class.For IHRA it helped save it.
NHRA has enough eligible cars.Realisticly a car running with an engine it never came with,having an aluminum manifold and Holley carb. and HP factor plucked out of thin air
(sorta like the CJs and DP cars) really isn't in the spirit of Stock Elim.And I know,the CJs and DP cars.Another fiasco.One fiasco is enough.

we talking about Pure stock Ed , i believe you just described IHRA's crate motor class with the holly and alluminum intakes