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Originally Posted by Floyd Gomez
Harry, Gary and Chris,
You are all on a class racer forum trying to convince class racers to go to an event that is heads up all out. Class cars are built for a specific index. K cars are not built to run with A cars and vice versa. The only way to get more class racers involved is to keep the current system with bigger coverage. I can run an A stocker all out every pass and it still wont help any other class that showed up. Most of us want to race not time trial. Make a system where that is possible and you will have more stockers and super stockers than you ever imagined. But putting us against inexperienced drivers with 4K junk cars and nitrous just doesnt work for a lot of us.
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Floyd...you're preaching to the choir...I own and drive an L/Stick Mustang and have been getting my hands dirty with class cars since the mid 70s. This also isn't a time trial event. Full stands with respectable TV coverage for sportsman racing hasn't happened since original Beech Bend NHRA Sportsnats. Because the complications of shoe polish racing, and time allotment for television, this may be the only way we can showcase our stuff to the masses. The days of Stock and Super Stock the way we've known it for so long is on borrowed time. The costs involved for policing tech, dwindling sticker support, and lack of fan appeal has made it a liability. The cost of racing the cars has spiraled almost vertically. If we don't come up with something new, our cars will become very expensive bracket racers. I believe when you bitch about something, you must be willing to offer a solution too. This is my offering. If you don't like what I'm trying to get, you don't have to participate.