[Rich Biebel]

Alan said we all have to stick together on this subject and he is right. John D. is 100% correct also. The answer is not to point fingers at t-stop category cars or say that T/D and T/S cars are to powerful. We are all racing on the same ractrack and not everyone wants to race a stocker whether it be fast or slow. The sport survived many years ago because of bracket cars and they were folded into NHRA's program. If you think NHRA sportsman racing and race tracks would have survived with just Stock and Super Stock cars participating your dreaming. All the cars racing today need to be accomodated and the track needs to be safe for all types of racing. I love Stockers....I love Super Stockers....I like racing period and race what I can, when I can. I have run 7 second cars and even my street car that ran 16's......I enjoy racing but not when we are worried for our safety or when I see someone else crash and possibly get seriously injured or worse. I have been there many times when racers have lost their lives or been seriously injured. It is terrible for our sport period!

There is an answer to this problem and I don't think the answer is do away with t-stops and timers or limit the horsepower that cars have......The HP is not going away anytime soon. NHRA could ban timers but that would wreak havoc on thousands of racers as they try to adapt.

The answer is to study the problem and determine what is causing a normally perfect racetrack to become so slick that cars can't make a run!

My friend and service manager here at work made one run at Atco in S/G on saturday. His car runs nearly 170mph. He said it was just fine out there.


What happened overnight to make the track unsafe? Cause and effect.......get the right people to look at this and an answer will be found and a corrective action can be determined........All of us just guess and guessing is not good enough when our lives are at stake....