[dwydendorf]

The guys that want to race off national records don't remember how it would apply in todays world. I am 58 and can remember how it used to work and I think it would be a step in the wrong direction. Back then there were no reaction times to tell how good of light you had. Also if you think it is expensive to race now, just go back to the old system of running off national records. You would need an operation like the Westcotts have with your own Machine shop and dyno, a stable full of cars, and a trailer full of engines to change classes and combos at the track. You will get to the track and find that someone on the east or west coast had bombed the record you were going to run off the week earlier because you are now racing in 2400 foot air at Indy or Joliet and there is no way you can go that fast, so now you need to change classes, to get a soft record to run on. Beleive it or not the system we have now keeps the cost down and makes it better for almost everyone.