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Originally Posted by Jack Matyas
Thanks Ed- apology accepted ................But here's the thing - would any of your points be different without the new cars ? Nope - things you pointed out would still be there ..........
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Jack, that is exactly the point, thanks for making it. For everything we were told the new cars would bring, nothing has changed. Except for some legitimate combinations have been made mostly obsolete for the purpose of heads up racing.
For all the new cars were supposed to bring, we have seen:
No real increase in car counts.
No real increase in media coverage.
No real increase in new competitors.
No real increase in fan attendance.
So, we got the negative, a bunch of really expensive new store bought cars rendering a bunch of older legitimate cars uncompetitive in class and in many heads up races in final eliminations. And none of the positives.
I actually like the new cars, not all of them, but many of them. Several of the guys racing new cars are friends on mine, and I still like them, too.
I just don't think anything positive has or will come from placing high priced factory race cars with ludicrously low factors in Stock Eliminator, which was, until the rules were rewritten, a class intended for production cars.
One thing it has done. Proven once and for all that NHRA is either terribly corrupt, or completely incompetent. There is no other valid explanation for what has happened.
You folks have a nice thread, I'm going out to work on a race car.