[Ed Wright]

I have won at least as many rounds running half track the past couple of years, and don't find any of that "It's harder, you have to be sharper, it will make you better, etc, etc" to be true at all. Same deal, just have to quit sooner. I only run half track under special circumstances. Special races or conditions like dangerous winds. Here at Tulsa one weekend when I was still bracket racing some we were all in the staging lanes they anounced the races would be shortened to 1/8th mile due to the winds. The anouncer told me they heard a car in the staging lanes start, and somebody behind him said "That would be Ed." (It was) Half track (for me) is bad enough, half track brackets? I don't think so. To each his own, likeing one over the other doesn't make you any more or less of a racer than the others.

If that is all there was in my area I would have stayed "retired". To me 130 MPH is a lot more fun than 106. If you live in a rural area with nothing but short tracks, that is what you are stuck with. If drag racing is still that new to you, I imagine you would probably like it just fine as long as you just get to race. It doesn't make you any more of a "real racer" than the people that can afford the time and money to drive to 1/4 mile tracks he or she prefers. Some don't feel quiting earlier and running slower is "real racing". Others like it just fine. You have the freedom to do whichever you prefer. It's America, right?