[63corvette]

Pat, what I took from your post listing "The Real Story" and by how many times you used the quote "Have You Ever Noticed" was that you thought just because it was done this way in the past why change it. It is what it is.

I do not agree with the special treatment the TD and TS racers have been given. I have friends who run TS and have told them the same thing. I also have more money in my car than a couple of the friends have it their TS cars. They just took their SG cars and added the NOS system to run fast enough to meet the ET requirement for TS. I see no difference between any of the Sportsman classes other than the TAD and TAFC cars. All the other classes should be on a level playing field for parking. First come first served basis.

You mentioned the cost of the cars. Drooze on this site claims to have almost $140,000 in his stock Challenger. If you park by car costs he should be parked with TAD and TAFC as he is close in cost to their cars.

If we do not change we get left out as the world changes. I think that is what NHRA was trying to do with TS and TD but all they really did was rob from SC and SG. I do not see any new race teams in TD or TS. One track manager also mentioned to me that all it did for the Track Owners was add two more pay out classes to the Division races and no new revenue to support the payout. Change is needed in NHRA and drag racing in general to bring in new racers. Like some in this post has noted the current age of racers are getting older and there are few new and young racers to replace them.

I have not been to your track but I hear very good things about it and how friendly it is to race there. I will plan to visit you in the next year or so as long as I can keep the racing going. As I mentioned in the earlier post I am retired now so I can pick and choose where and when I race. It is just all for fun and when the fun is gone so is the race car.
Rick