Mid-year horsepower posted @ nhra.com

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Thank you! Now how do we get racers to all "agree on anything"! Alan, any racer that knows me has heard this quote,"Racers as a whole are so damned stupid that it's amazing we manage to feed ourselves".
I hope that at some point in time we all wake the hell up!

Billy I agree with that quote of yours. Kevin's favorite movie, Men in Black, has a great line , "Humans are smart, but people are dumb panicky animals".

And no, I don't know how to get even the majority, never mind everyone, to agree on anything that resembles a solution. But I can tell you that it is almost certain that the sanctioning bodies will never do it for us. It will come from the racers, or it will never come at all.

I think the most likely possibility, and even that will not likely come to pass, could begin with some sort of regional class racers' association, holding races like Alex's race from a few years ago, something like Terry was trying to do. A regional group, in a somewhat centrally located region that would allow them to hold races throughout the region, might draw out of the region racers that are close to the outer edges, allowing it to expand.

Example: Say we take the upper part of Division 2, the eastern part of Division 4, and the southern parts of Divisions 1 and 3. Form an association, and put on a series of races, say 2 day races, with a format similar to the SportsNational Open at Bowling Green, where you get one time trial and then you go straight into class, and then run the final eliminations the next day. Maybe have some sort of show Saturday night to help the track keep fans in the stands and make a little more money. Find some guys willing to tech. Hold 5-6 races in a year, say at Bowling Green, Bristol, No Problem, South Georgia or Reynolds, and you pick 2-3 Division 1 and 3 tracks. Then you could draw from the surrounding states.

That's just an idea and an example. You tell me. Maybe some one should ask the guys like Pete and Kyle, or Mike, or the other guys who put on the big bracket races why they don't do the same with say Stock and Super Stock. And maybe see what it would take to change their mind. Of course, Alex has already put on one big race. But no one has done it since.