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Originally Posted by Jeff Lee
I'm saying there is a desire for racers to participate on the national event level. Prestige, ego, money. If there were no other way to race such a venue without having a pro class car, you would see more entry level stockers.
However, I know NHRA would never drop the super classes so it's a moot point.
Question: Did IHRA find that crate motor stock brought new blood into S/SS? I'm wondering if the statistics show an increase in car counts for Stock. Do the participants generally favor it?
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Jeff, I think you have hit on a key point here... the S/SS fields were HUGE in the days before there were so many index classes. Super gas was a nice addition in the beginning, when most were door cars, then everyone figured out the liteweight/cheap way to go fast with the dragsters/roadsters, leading up to S/C. Indexes gave bracket racers an entry into National level competition, and it was a lot easier to tread those waters than the tech challenge of S/SS. We lost a lot of potential racers to that direction... I think a good solution would be to have a separate series for the index cars, and have them run on different dates. The mentality from brackets to Class racing is totally different, and having therm run on different weekends might be good for all. (No bias here, I've done both, but from the mentality standpoint, the mindset of the S/SS/Comp guys are closer to the pros approach, and the index cars are a different alignment altogether). Who knows?? Having the Pros/S/SS/Comp guys together, and the Alcohol, TS/SC/SG/SST and Pro Mods together might be good for us, spectators and NHRA.