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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
Pinks All Out is a contrived "American Idol", run at a drag strip. They book in a bunch of cars, and let them make time trials all day, hoping for a few "high lights" to put in the show. Then they pick a winner, and a few other cars to race, and then run the race for the benefit of their winner. And boy are they pissed when their winner doesn't win. It makes for good TV, I guess, if you go in for that sort of thing, but it ain't racing. The crowd is there to see the carnage, and hopefully get on TV. When the "new" wears off, it'll fade away and be forgotten.
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Alan you're WAY off!!! Didn't you see I just ran one? Doesn't my money, effort, and time count? I can tell you first hand absolutely NOTHING is orchestrated, pre-planned, rigged, or hidden. Everyone has a fair shot. If anything it's a welcome change from shoe polish racing, which isn't any better. There has been some sandbagging but those guys WILL GET CAUGHT.
My advice is to attend one of these if you can. Rich Christensen has certainly hit on something when he can get ordinary car buffs into the stands to watch our junk run. His logic is common sense, you must have something to sell in order to attract fans. In his case it 's attitude and drama which he can build off the racers, cars, and fans.
There's no way around it. Class racing (even sportsman drag racing in general) in it's present form does not nor ever will have the fan appeal of PINKS format.