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Originally Posted by bill dedman
I agree. The times have changed, but the NHRA rulebook hasn't kept pace. The move to AA/S and AA/SA was a long-overdue addition to the rules, but it didn't go far enough, I think.
You can (if you have the bucks) go to a Chevy dealer and buy a bone-stock ZR-1 Corvette right off the showroom floor with 638 advertised horsepower in a 3,200-pound package (5.02 pounds per hp); a 600 hp Viper SRT-10 in at about 3,350 pounds (5.6 pounds per hp), or several different permutations of blown Ford Mustangs with horsepowers ranging anywhere from 425 to 700+ (depending on whom you choose to believe). The new Nissan GTR is a mid-11-second ride off the showroom floor (AWD), and you're going to be seeing a LOT of those cars around... why not race 'em??? Isn't drag racing traditionally where people go to see the FAST cars???
There are no "STOCK ELIMINATOR" classes for these showroom-stock vehicles.
Why the Hell not? They're American cars (well, all but the GTR) that are readily available, would be REALLY exciting to watch run down the drag strip, and probably would be relatively easy to gain sponsorship for, since they represent the cream of the crop of new cars, so far.
I think NHRA is really dragging their heels on this deal... and, missing an opportunity to showcase the best of the best by not including these babies into the Classification Guide.
The question is: WHY?
Inertia??? I know that NHRA Tech is eaten up with it... "Don't do today, what you can put off until tomorrow.... or, next year."
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Bill, as far as I recall when the Nopi Tuner sponsorship ended the NHRA Sports Compact series last season, I remember reading that those classes were going to be merged into our Competition & Super Stock Eliminator categories!? I've been looking forward to this season to see which of those cars were going to come out and play with the American Iron in either category, and I've been waiting since 1991 for any of those Japanese/Japanese-American cars to make their way into Stock Eliminator...If nothing else, the late great Wally Parks rolled out the welcome mat for those cars too, but you don't see many of them listed in the Stock Car classification guide, because no-one's chosen to campaign one of them---I'm chomping at the bit to line-up my Chevy Cavalier next to one of those (ballyhooed by the warped-minded, import-loving car magazine dip-stick) import cars in a Stock Eliminator type race (epecially a handicapped one where rt's and consistency determine the winner)!!! OOOHHH boy, get me fired up to race an import, and I don't care who's driving it, because I'll be thinking of all of the American workers who lost their jobs due to our governments embracing of this warped-minded global economy!!! They better hope I'm not feeling well when they race me, either , because I'll be out to put another thousandts package on them like I've been blessed to do against Tony Hernandez (.006 package in Rnd 3 at the '06 Mile Highs), or the nearly similar packages placed on Wes McCann, and Mike Graham in a 2007 Stock/Super Stock combo race (where I ran right on my dial nearly to the thou both times!), that has Mike wanting a rematch with me, and was my rematch with Wes for my -.013 red-bulb against him in the quarters at the '07 Div. VII race #2 where I ran right on my dial-in (to the thou), in my fwd Z24---thus, I'm still waiting to see some imports run consistent like that.
I'M CALLING OUT ANY BODY WHO LOVES THOSE IMPORTS TO BUILD ONE AND BRING IT OUT TO ANY OF OUR STOCK ELIMINATOR RACES...ESPECIALLY AGAINST ME!!!!!!
Uh, hmm, now as for the 2008 Cobra Jets, I'm glad to see them out here, and I look forward to seeing the Challengers as well in Gainesville, and the Camaros (once Chevrolet decides to release them).
USA ALL THE WAY!!!!!