How competitive are you?

[art leong]

Originally Posted by chris3racing

Okay, this thread came up at just the right time. I just recently watched the re-run of Pinks All Out 2009. In the words of Roy Hill "this is the way we remember drag racing." The pits were full of cars and spectators and all of the seats were full. Working on your car was a challenge due to all of the spectators that wanted to watch and take photos. Especially after the first round of quailfying on the pro tree. Old and new race cars and street cars heads up. The wheels were up in the air almost every run. A white chevrolet station wagon kept the crowd on their feet everytime he came to the starting line. He carried the front wheel almost to the 1/8th mile marker.

The classes were A thru K, if I remember correctly. A being the quicker cars, K being like 12.5 to 13.00 in a quarter mile. Our class was 11.50 and we had 68 cars in our class. You checked in and tech inspection on Friday, after you met tech then time runs began on Friday. And yes you could fail tech inspection, several did, you could fix it and then go back through again. Tech officials were there from Zmax, Bristol and Atlanta to get all of the cars teched. If you ran quicker than your class you either slowed the car down or at 5:00 on Friday you changed your class. Breakout and your out. We ran several of the Pinks All Out races with street cars and full out race cars competing together. To register to race the track used computers for early registration. Zmax Dragway in 2009 filled up in 9.5 minutes, 540 race cars. Virginia Motorsports filled in a little over 10 minutes if I remember correctly. Friday morning at 11:00 am Zmax sold out spectator seats with standing room only available. Saturday morning at 8:30 am the spectators were lined up to the round track waiting to get in.

Also, tracks have to go back to advertising races. I have pointed this out before, some people don't even know that there are still drag strips racing in North Carolina now. We have had our car at some car shows and people have made that comment. If they don't know that drag strips are open, their not going on the internet to see what is going on.

A track operator who wants to be brave and set up a race like this and advertise, other than waiting for someone to see it on the internet, he may be in for a big surprise. Heads up, races ending in inches not feet, without cars on and off of the throttle. Some body in North Carolina try this and lets see what happens.

What is the difference between this and Stock/Superstock? Go to fast and lose.

[chris3racing]

Art, it is similar to Stock/Superstock racing except I forgot the most important rule. There is no lifting. Track personell were station along the track with radios, if you lift before the finish line you are also disqualified. The name of the game was run all out everytime down the track. If your times changed then you were "sandbagging" and disqualified. In other words no playing games. Two cars down the track both running "all out" and consistently running the same et there was no reason to get on a fender and think you might run him out and you win. If you race Stock/Superstock or are a spectator you know that at about 1000ft it sounds like both cars are about to run out of gas.

[randy wilson]

Still bracket racing. If they turned the clocks on, people would figure out in a hurry, and quit watching. The crowd actually believes it's heads-up. They haven't quite figured out what is going on when they disquailfy a racer for sandbagging.