[Pat Cook]

Ya know, If a person reads these post it sound likes S/SS is a real mess.

I started racing my stocker as a bracket car and evolved it into a stocker. I always hear "if you don't like the way the eliminator is going, go back to bracket racing" and then there is the "S/SS is just glorified bracket racing" maybe, but bracket racing is really just about the driver and winning, of course the car has to be set up as well.

But bracket racing in stock is a lot different, simply due to the fact that you are always trying to improve / evolve your car, and to me that is what makes it fun. I have not spent the money on my car like a lot of the cars in my class have (F/SA) and most of the time I am in the middle of the pack as far as qualifying, just means I need to spend more money?

Some say "find a car / combo" that has not been run before and turn it into a killer" I suppose, but that usually mean spending a lot of time at the track. The closest track to my home is a 110 miles, which means roughly 5 hrs of towing time, and three passes at the test and tune. And beside I like my old 67 Ford Fairlane. I enjoy the heads up part of the race, I even won a round of heads up racing once, but most of the time I get my but t handed to me, and for now that's OK as long as I can still race in the main event, I will spend the money to go to the races. And maybe I will get some Obama money to spend on my hot rod?.......I mean ACORN was willing to front a hooker in a house?

So if S/SS were to be evolved into a heads up eliminator, after about 2 years of a handful of cars winning (most money spent on their cars) how many cars would be coming to the races? and isn't this how S/SS evolved to were it is now? simply due to the lack of participation.

I remember when AHRA ran that type of a racing format, and it died

And really, will S/SS ever be the main event? not unless we are jumping our cars, crashing, ....I like it, but I don't think the younger generation has the same feeling about it, what do I know, maybe we need a marketing guru to tell us what we need to do to get spectator draw, or maybe we should just race and evolve as needed? and they will come, kinda a "field of dreams approach"?......