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Bill Koski said Mike Edwards is running off with points,but now with countdown that screws that up,he did that a few years ago and countdown cost him championship,
I don't like countdown if a guy can run off with championship and have wrapped up with 3 or 4 races left then I think they deserve it.

My main problem w/pros is
2-3 people practically owning the whole field
the countdown
1000' racing
$'s it takes has put and keeps a lot of good racers out.

Mike Taylor 3601

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I can't believe some can't tell the cars apart.

I don't like the count down either.

It's hard to understand a racer not being impressed and interested in the technology involved. Much of our engine building technology trickled down from there. Fuel cars? Not so much.

I guess maybe the bracket contingent that buys their engines may not be that interested.

I would love to be a fly on the wall of Mike's engine shop. Al introduced me to one of Mike's engine guys at Indy last year. Got to pick his brain a little. Highlight of my weekend.

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Newsflash Ed, the stock/super stock contingent buys their engines too! Perhaps you've heard of Tilburg, Watters and Gulius.

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Pro Stock is out dated at this time, there are no 500 inch cars with 2 carbs any longer. The Pro Stock class of today are funny cars but with doors. Pro Stock should go back to a backed halfed bodies in white, with flat hoods. Fuel injected, no more then 370 ci. It would bring alot of different combinations and new faces into the field. It wouldn't be the same 22 cars that show up. Let the cars come back to Pro "Stock" It would bring the class closer to the modern day vehicles. Also the cost to run one would come back down to reason. Just a different look at the class.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA STOCK

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Dilbert, SS is who I'm talking about. Many still build their own. Others don't care to go faster, don't test to get faster, just bracket race it.

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1970 was a long time ago, most buy their engines and the racers typically collecting Wallys are current or former bracket racers!

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Yep. That dumbed it down with these bogus-soft indexes to where anybody with anything can run under. Like "for a grand".

Want to add, not just anybody could have put one under the index "for a grand", but even Billy putting one under the index for that amount means the indexes are too soft.

Bracket racing is where the slow guys that just could not run fast enough used to go. Now on Sunday everybody is fast. Don't have to know anything anymore.

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The only way the cost would go down is outlaw wealthy people from racing Pro Stock. Not going to happen.

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Isn't that the purpose of drag racing? To eliminate wealth?

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Amen to that. Good thing you have Pete to keep you in check.

TP