The Importance of Class Runoffs

rboyle · 08-15-2022, 02:36 PM

ABSOLUTELY! Class runoffs and heads ups are why most of us chose these classes. If not we could just run brackets on weekends or one of the Super categories.

Indy for me is as "old school balls out heads up cool" as it gets. Every car is pushed up to the starting line, ice bags and dry ice and hoods popping open and shut all over the staging lanes as every racer tries to squeeze a few more thousandths of a second out of their car. Trying to become the Class legend by running fast or winning class or Qualifying in the top half of the field or just making the field. It is like Grumpy & Dick Landy spreading the gold dust rosin and doing dry hops. It's the coolest thing you ever seen.

That is why many of us run the class. I for one may never be able to run a true heads up class like Comp or Pro Stock or something but for one fleeting moment at any time during eliminations at any given race I may be able to pretend to be one of the "Big Dogs". It's what we all aspired to be when we first pulled up to a Stop light in our beater street cars with a new license in our wallet and a guy in the car next to us inched up and gave the nod.

Keep heads ups, class eliminations, and promote them NHRA!

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08-15-2022, 02:36 PM	#7
rboyle Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 604 Likes: 1,454 Liked 586 Times in 162 Posts	Re: The Importance of Class Runoffs ABSOLUTELY! Class runoffs and heads ups are why most of us chose these classes. If not we could just run brackets on weekends or one of the Super categories. Indy for me is as "old school balls out heads up cool" as it gets. Every car is pushed up to the starting line, ice bags and dry ice and hoods popping open and shut all over the staging lanes as every racer tries to squeeze a few more thousandths of a second out of their car. Trying to become the Class legend by running fast or winning class or Qualifying in the top half of the field or just making the field. It is like Grumpy & Dick Landy spreading the gold dust rosin and doing dry hops. It's the coolest thing you ever seen. That is why many of us run the class. I for one may never be able to run a true heads up class like Comp or Pro Stock or something but for one fleeting moment at any time during eliminations at any given race I may be able to pretend to be one of the "Big Dogs". It's what we all aspired to be when we first pulled up to a Stop light in our beater street cars with a new license in our wallet and a guy in the car next to us inched up and gave the nod. Keep heads ups, class eliminations, and promote them NHRA!