A short continuation of my "VENT" before Indy !!

[Sean Gaffney]

I don't know if this is a stupid question but why did they go away from running the eliminator off national records and began with indexes ect...? Was the sport becoming too expensive to run like that and the same guys won all the time or was a drastic change needed to bring more racers into this sport at the time? i think that must to been great to race like that back then because not only did you have to be a class racer to win class but the eliminator also, wouldnt it be great if we didnt need to dial in again!! I don't know if this is the appropriate thread to have this on but everyone seems to be in favor of stock and super stock being a performance based class so my question to you all is why are we bracket racing our expensive race cars for next to no money in purses and half the wally's now due to combining singles i personally think stock and super stock needs a complete makeover to maybe go back to the grass roots of the classes that obvioustly made so many of you happy back then as i doubt this much complaining went on back then. I know that the new cars would be hard to beat if we went off record runs but through proper research and factoring in this makeover they would be in the right classes from the beginning its just a matter of NHRA willing to go that extra mile for us as a whole, make things right again and see the car counts exceed the their expectations, all i know is that changing back to the way things used to be can't be any worse than it is now.