[rick lester]

very interesting post. i for one think it is a good thing letting kurt busch in to race. i will be there first round, laughing my ***** off at all the super gassers wrecking getting behind him, just like in bracket racing. my girlfriend did not want to go at first, then i mentioned kurt was going to be there, now is counting the days on the calender. he's her favorite beer, i mean driver in nascar. i don't like the grading point system myself, but think about it, if the system was eliminated, then the racers chasing a world championship might miss a race if all the locals just went to their closest national event. answer me honestly guys, would you only go to national events if there was no grading points? i for one as a specator, chose divisionals over nationals. why? because of the sportsmen racers, they are, and will always be the backbone of drag racing. at a early age some of the people i looked up to were stock and super stock racers, lee and linda sherman are just two of them. hell if scott helms wasn't going this year, i'd skip it altogether. i'll be there, just look for the fool sitting in the stands when stock and super stock are running.