Pro Sportsman Racers
 

Saw this article and thought I'd pass it along. :)

http://etdragracing.com/magazine/sum...l-are-we-doing

Jeff

Re: Pro Sportsman Racers
 

Couldn't agree more.

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Agree about what?

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Yes, agree about what?

This guy is all over the map, he cant make up his mind on the so called pro sportsman. He has respect for them, but then he is jealous, he says there doing nothing wrong, yet he thinks..... his word ....

"But I see a couple faults to this "professional sportsman racing". One is that it kills a lot of regional or local racers ever having much of a chance to win a big race."

The are so many great local racers that do very well in NHRA and do not travel all over the country. They don't have big rigs and multiple cars. Jok needs to do a little more research. I think many of these racers would disagree with there chances being killed by a so called pro sportsman. I could go on, but this guy has one agenda, and judging by the ceo of the online magazine I can see why.

I just looked at the top ten in all sportsman categories, there is one racer that travels all over the country, and maybe 5 that hit more then most racers. So out of 40 racers in the top ten, 6 of them or destroying
sportsman racing, yeah right.

I think articles such as Jok's does more harm to sportsman racing by turning racers against each other than any so called pro sportsman.

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Whiny non-sense ....

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I read this last week, and have been anxiously waiting to see the reaction here on CR.
Ken, your observations are spot on. As my name suggests, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm also not a journalist. However, that was possibly one of the worst, most passive aggressive, pieces of published words I have ever read.

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I will agree with this comment from the article:

"They work hard prepping the cars, they drive the starting line and finish line like their wages depended on it and it shows."

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Lets just give everyone a participation Wally...like they do in T-ball.

We need to relearn there are winners and losers in life. It is up to you to decide which you want to be.

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If you compete for money, you are a professional racer. Just because NHRA calls you sportsman, in reality you are a pro. If you race for grins, now you are talking sportsman.
Back in the day, the prize to win a race was a tool box or something of that nature. I think that is where NHRA got sportsman.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock

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I just am not a fan of the concept of a 'professional sportsman racer'. thats all.

I feel ideally sportsman classes are intended to be a hobby to us, not a source of livelihood. The very nature of having so many professional racers in the sportsman ranks makes it that much more difficult for hobby racers to compete in classes that are inteded for them. Thats just an unfortunate fact.

That being said, I am not suggesting anything can or should be done about it. The races are open for anyone to enter, and they should be.

And there is no class in the Professional categories aymore for anyone other than mega funded teams, or extremely wealthy folks, so I do understand that as well.

Finally, I do also agree with you folks, that the article was very poorly written.