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Big pro is brackets keep you sharp but you can set up a "cheaper" bracket car such that it's very close to your class car. To me the biggest drawback is a class car is usually on a ~200 run freshen interval vs. ~500 run bracket motor.
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Last time the bracket car was freshened was 2001, and the Class car typically gets something fresh more out of want than need.
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I haven't done it primarily because my stocker is slower than the NHRA Pro ET brackets et limit (I believe 13.99 sec.). Sportsman payouts are much lower than Stock (or Pro ET), payouts are. I didn't build my car to race for $200 bucks or less (regularly). However, for now it doesn't really matter since (for the time being anyway), metro Phoenix has no tracks to race at, and thus the only bracket racing I could do would be in the No-Box class at S.I.R. in Tucson, for the IHRA. Their bracket category at least pays $550 for the winner ($700 if more than 32 cars). Only if a divisional is coming up that I can attend, would I race my car for what the Sportsman brackets pay, due to the seat time needed...regularly though? Not...
Furthermore, I don't have the pleasure of storing my racing operation where I live, and that creates more challenges with my being able to race in a state, that due to summertime heat, races late in the afternoon, until midnight...not good if the person you store your rig with doesn't have the same interest/desires...
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I bracket race my stick shift super stocker almost every weekend. Run bracket points in no box at Fayetteville (my home track). Usually put over 300 runs a year on my car. I have a log book full of info for about any situation because of bracket racing. Seat time means more than anything you do. Why spend thousands of dollars and hours working on your car and not spend as much time working on your driver?
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I've had the pleasure of watching Robbi make lots of passes down the track at the 2 big money bracket races I've announced in NC. The car looks as good as it goes, and Robbie is a heck of a driver!
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I would highly recommend getting more of the Stock guys/gals to get more seat time racing PRO ET (Summit Series), or the No-Box class on Non-Summit weekends. I know Brad and Scott Burton ran the Summit series at home in D5 as I saw them at the ET Finals in Topeka two years ago.
There is no replacement for seat time. The practice tree only goes so far. I personally know Matt Harris who raced his Cutlas Comp car with a bracket engine in 2009/2010 until the Grand Am was rebuilt, and Shaun Vincent bracket raced his "new" S/S Trans Am a handful of times over the last year few years with a bracket engine, and last year with their SS engine. Both did very well. The only draw back for S/S in Pro ET is, technically, the car cannot have a data acquisition computer connected while racing. Clark |
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Ran super pro at Lebanon valley yesterday seat time never hurts. c/sa 97 firebird.
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I lucked up and pulled off a win in No Box Saturday night at Montgomery with Robert Hindman's D/SA Cobra Jet.
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Yes I run regular brackets with my stocker.....usually go rounds too ...
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Ran my T-Bird Stocker for the first time Sat. night at our local DOT bracket races. Semi final finish.
Did some time trials with the lightweight 30 " Hoosier slicks. Then switched to 6 year old- 28" tall heavy M&H DOT drag radials. (as required to have in the class) Car ran the same e.t. either way. ![]()
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