What's wrong with Stock?

[Michael Beard]

Now some want to mandate a change in the roll bar rule for entry level Stockers due to the preponderance of 8 and 9 second cars, further moving the line of who can or who can't afford to participate in, and support Stock Eliminator.
The roll bar rule should be 11.49 and faster..Same as in bracket racing. To require otherwise is demeaning to Class racers. I don't know why others don't get fired up about is.
I run against 9 second cars all the time with my 15 second street car. I f I didn't feel safe, I wouldn't do it . My decision to race or not .I suggest others do the same.

Not "some". *I'm* the one that brought it up, and I specifically said first that I thought that 8-sec cars belonged in Super Stock, and I also said that if I continue to race my 15-sec Stocker against 150 mph cars I would choose to put a roll bar in the car. I haven't started any petition to NHRA or anything. Sheesh.

I guess you could go by bracket rules and not wear a helmet, firejacket or fire pants in a 15-sec Stocker, too, but I choose to wear them. I felt perfectly safe, too, right up until a car went sideways in front of me in my lane at 140+. I was just bringing up some self-preservation thoughts. To each their own.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Not "some". *I'm* the one that brought it up, and I specifically said first that I thought that 8-sec cars belonged in Super Stock, and I also said that if I continue to race my 15-sec Stocker against 150 mph cars I would choose to put a roll bar in the car. I haven't started any petition to NHRA or anything. Sheesh.

I guess you could go by bracket rules and not wear a helmet, firejacket or fire pants in a 15-sec Stocker, too, but I choose to wear them. I felt perfectly safe, too, right up until a car went sideways in front of me in my lane at 140+. I was just bringing up some self-preservation thoughts. To each their own.

Wasn't referring to you, Michael.
Someone mentioned maybe it was time for all Stockers to have a roll bar. I can't find it at the moment.
Helmet's not a big investment that one has to put into a Dime Rocket to find out if it's worth pursuing..It stays with the driver,,not the car.

"To each their own" My point exactly.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Not "some". *I'm* the one that brought it up, and I specifically said first that I thought that 8-sec cars belonged in Super Stock, and I also said that if I continue to race my 15-sec Stocker against 150 mph cars I would choose to put a roll bar in the car. I haven't started any petition to NHRA or anything. Sheesh.

I guess you could go by bracket rules and not wear a helmet, firejacket or fire pants in a 15-sec Stocker, too, but I choose to wear them. I felt perfectly safe, too, right up until a car went sideways in front of me in my lane at 140+. I was just bringing up some self-preservation thoughts. To each their own.

When I sold my Gremlin to Eric Merryfield I asked him to have a rollbar installed in the car
as his daughter and son were going to drive it.He went the extra mile and had a cage and chassis connectors put in it. I would have done it if I kept the car. It's unnerving to have one of the new cars blow by you at around 60 mph. It's only a matter of time till one of them takes out a lower class stocker trying to make it close at the stripe.
It entails buying a jacket,belts etc. but hey how much is your life worth to you?