I need to vent !!!

[Bernie Cunningham]

Art, there ya go big boy!!

Quote from Art: "That being said I personally like the combo class deal."

WOW Art, I like that, I still reckon you have the car to win the championship, go race that turd, LOL

Dave C , Evan (your always right) Carey B, D Johns and Joe S have it right and so do a bunch of us non poster racers thinking the same way.

I reckon the combo deal is really fun to follow and watch on the 'puter. A great deal, that was put together in desperation for a dying campaign and has now held it together in these times, kudo's for the effort, thanks to Charlie N @ NHRA !

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Bernie Cunningham

Art, there ya go big boy!!

Quote from Art: "That being said I personally like the combo class deal."

WOW Art, I like that, I still reckon you have the car to win the championship, go race that turd, LOL

Dave C , Evan (your always right) Carey B, D Johns and Joe S have it right and so do a bunch of us non poster racers thinking the same way.

I reckon the combo deal is really fun to follow and watch on the 'puter. A great deal, that was put together in desperation for a dying campaign and has now held it together in these times, kudo's for the effort, thanks to Charlie N @ NHRA !

Bernie. All the belly aching I did last year was for other people. And for the sport in general. Not for me personally.
This year I had troubles with a new shifter. Then troubles with a balancer gone bad. Then having all my tires worn to the cords.
Now the shifter is fine, I no longer run a balancer, and I located one new set of tires along with a couple of good used ones.
So next year will be a little different.
I still feel someone with a slack HP or index has a big advantage. And in an unpopular class you can control your own destiny. You are a disciple of qualifying. You should realize if you run the fastest (second) car in the first round of class it counts towards your qualifying number (only the fastest of one of all these runs count) Then you might not have to use everything in the next couple of rounds when every run counts.
It's a game I don't really like to play. But then I didn't write the rules.
As far as Charlie N goes I have yet to see the promised increase in class contingency.
All I see is NHRA saving about 8 to 12 class winner trophies per race.
As a bunch of people have said it would have been easy for NHRA to award trophies to singles and still run the combo for the contingencies. The damage has already been done to some extent. I know of at least 3 people that sold their cars and quit because of the combo deal. If you look at the entries at Indy it spells it out. Not only because of the combo. But like I said 8 for this, 6 for that, Etc. Etc.
The next thing will be to combine stock and superstock.

[Bobby Fazio]

Ok but the solution should have been to EITHER take away the single runs OR take away the money. NOT both. NHRA won on both ends of that deal while the racers got screwed on both ends. NHRA puts the blame on the manufacturers pulling out and economic times (all while raising their entry fees?). I guess they feel everyone is hurting but the racers? Heaven forbid they could have stepped up to the plate and tried to help by offering something out of their pocket to class winners. Doug Linke beat the piss out of his race car for four rounds in the combo at Etown for a trophy that said "Topeka" class winner on it and no contingency money. He's a better man than I.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Bobby Fazio

Ok but the solution should have been to EITHER take away the single runs OR take away the money. NOT both. NHRA won on both ends of that deal while the racers got screwed on both ends. NHRA puts the blame on the manufacturers pulling out and economic times (all while raising their entry fees?). I guess they feel everyone is hurting but the racers? Heaven forbid they could have stepped up to the plate and tried to help by offering something out of their pocket to class winners. Doug Linke beat the piss out of his race car for four rounds in the combo at Etown for a trophy that said "Topeka" class winner on it and no contingency money. He's a better man than I.

This is exactly what I was saying last year. But I was called a crybaby by some on here.
I've already proved I can compete with the CJ's. So I don't think crybaby should have been used to describe me. I wanted (want) to stick in NHRA's eye with my POS Neon beating the BIG Money cars (their backers would not be happy).
Much like we did to the W.R. Grace Cup. It was supposed to be a cash cow for the pro-comp cars. But it was won by a Modified, a Stocker, and a Super Stocker.
I'm not posting anymore on this thread. Last year I almost quit Class Racer because of it.
Whatever NHRA does the sheeple will follow. Except for a few that quit each time something is done. Those can not and will not be replaced.

If anyone wants to contact me about this post PM me. I'm not putting a target on back for the a*******s.