| Todd Hoven |
06-21-2013 09:44 AM |
Re: Wheelie Bars are not needed for Safety on Stockers!
Hey Ed, I had a conversation like this with a very good friend of ours just last week. I don't have a problem with what you have posted below
except for the bracket racing statement. Ask some of your friends that have raced stock from time to time in borrowed car what they think of heads up races. I know Jack and Larry lost a tough heads up at Etown. I'm sure they wouldn't share your opinion of we are all doing the same thing.
Most bracket guys have this opinion, I ignore them just about completly. If you have never been on a Q sheet for performance, had to Q to get in a race, get torn down at a race, or draw a heads up in an early round, or a late one with a car that is faster you will just never know.
The wheelie bar debate. If they are allowing guys to run them, they should alow trimming for them to fit. My good friend wrecked his car 10 years ago at Atco. If he had the wheelie bars he would still have the car. It's that simple. This was before the good shocks were available, and you were winging it. Now, no matter what there is a good chance on a wheel stand you can come back for the next run. They should be run, of the car owner wants to, and be allowed to be fit accordingly.
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Originally Posted by 1320racer
(Post 387296)
Because I want to race every week. Because I'm not going to take 3-4 days off from work to be told I have to park 1/2 mile away in some muddy field that I'll need to be towed out of if it rains while I sit waiting to run at a moments notice on a track that is either too cold or not prepped properly. Because I do/can race for more $ every week. Because I'm not going to spend $100K+ on a state of the art purpose built class car to run on tracks that are worse then one would find on a test/tune day. Because I refuse to be treated like the filler and also ran that you class racers are. Because I'm not going to tear my junk down so they can look for some minor infraction while the NHRA KNOWS most every stock eliminator competitor is running with heads/manifolds that have been ported. Because I'm not going to sticker my car up only to have to beg some manufactures for contingency money. Because you and some of your competitors think what you do is special while WE know you too are bracket racing and just paying more for the nhra class racing experience. :D
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