[Mike Carr]

Yes, car counts would suffer tremendously.

Back in October 1998 at the Dutch Classic, they did a special race. Sign up, pay the fee ($20 or $25). Top eight reaction times of those who signed up got to race. Payout was something like 40% winner, 20% r/u, 10% each semi and 20% to the track or NHRA, I can;t remember. There were about 20 cars or so that signed up.

In the spring of '99, at the first two Div 1 Opens (Delmar and Atco) and the LODRS race at Maple Grove, they did it again. This time, it was 16 cars, for the quickest under the index cars. Race was run with a CIC. I believe the CIC was the average of the field, and went into effect for first round. The car counts in S/S at those races were five, nine and seven. Stock didn't draw much better. Point is, trying to run S/SS racing like Comp will kill it.