2012 Camaro in the NHRA Classguide

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by davidhuff

The only way to to bring new young racers and new young fans to the sport of drag racing we all love is to bring more new cars into the nhra classguide.My 26 old son and his friends could give a dam about a rust bucket 1969 camaro.lol

New cars have come into the class guide every year for decades.

The new fuel injected cars, with relatively soft factors, have been in the class since 1999, that's how we ended up with the FI classes for several years. If your son and his two friends haven't gotten interested by now, they never will be. Any of the 3 of them building a new factory car with a give away factor? I thought not.

If you haven't figured it out, it is about the entire class, as it works, as a whole, and not about any one car. No car is going to get anyone interested, or save the class.

In order to be of any use to Stock and Super Stock, as a fan or a competitor, you have to understand how the classes work, and want to compete or watch on that basis. You have to love the classes for what they are and what they mean. If all you're looking for is an absurdly soft factor, or the car of the week, you'll be gone soon enough, and no one will miss you, or even remember who you are.

I'm sure the guys with the 70 Challengers and 68 Mustang Super Cobra Jets, among others, are just as broke up as we are that your son and his two friends don't give a damn about our rust bucket cars.Yeah, that would be not at all. We're out there racing, and contributing to the classes. If that's all any of you (you, your son, and his "friends")have as far as love for cars goes (that you don't give a damn about our "rust bucket 69 Camaros), you won't be of any help to class racing.