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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
Some of you rich people make me laugh sometimes... We bairly have any new blood now.
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Unless you want to run in the higher classes, you do not need to be rich to be competitive. There are many competitive combinations in both classes.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
Do you think making it harder to win the Grand Prize of $1000 after spending half that just to go racing that weekend is going to help? Lets worry about whats going to keep this show going and not how to make it like it was yesteryear. Get used to it, Things change.
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The racer makes this choice.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
Fast cars are not as impressive to a young person now as they were then. A competition involving old muscle cars vs newer american muscle is interesting to watch, but who are yall kiding?
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Moreover, what is your point? Fast cars are not impressive to the young ones? There have always been fast cars throughout the years for each applicable era.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
Nobody under 30 can afford this, and they have 45 years of bogus combo's to chose from as compaired to 10 back then.
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Many started in the sport at an early age. What is your premise to say that people under 30 years cannot afford to race? Yes, 45 years of car options is called diversity and not all are bogus.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
Everybody here knows how much it cost to go fast, and if they do it with something bogus, people talk crap about it to everyone who has an internet conection, so Performance loses it luster.
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Since day one, there has always been controversy when someone goes fast. Yes, there are bogus combinations and they seem to have started to appear since Farmer Dismuke and Dave Danish left NHRA.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
It ain't just the economy, This ship is going down because we fail to attrack new blood. Why would anyone in thier right mind invest all this money? They would rather just throw thier money away in a poker tournament. Same man vs man competition, alot worse odds of winning if your an avg player, but at least your not investing $500 to win $1000 if you beat everyone.
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Again, the racer makes this choice on how to race and invest his money.
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Originally Posted by Hagen Gary
All those people who don't think low qualifing bracket cars should be racing in your performance based eliminator should thank them for keeping this ship going, or they would have no NHRA class to race in. Heads up is only 5% of the time, but I would take an extra 5% Guaranteed win upgrade. So go fast if you can afford it.
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Stock and Super Stock classes, since their creation, are performance based and are the foundation for creativity, research and development. How do you classify a bracket car that does not meet a specification sheet? It is interesting when I see a bracket car with a big cubic inch engine, that will only go in the 11’s and when they see a low class stocker run fast than they do with mostly OEM parts, they go into shock. Finally, good racers pick combinations that are competitive and they do not always have to go fast.