[BadBanana]

In my humble opinion, there is ssooo much wrong with Stock and Super Stock racing today, that it is almost beyond fixing !!!
They need to, once again, give it some track and fan appeal. They need less classes instead of more. Less classes with about 15 or 20 cars in each class at the national events - something for the fans to get pumped about - then NHRA will once again get pumped about it.
To do this they need to get the hp ratings straight, for old and new cars, so they can both compete.......and they need to get the indexs right so only the very best cars can run under, The fans don't want to see, and don't understand, how a guy in a given class can win eliminator when he can run .10 under, when there are other similarly classed cars that can run .90 under, because of the dial under and breakout rules.
We don't want to make S and S/S look like Super Gas and Super Comp , do we???? If you love these cars, you don't !!!
Get the hp ratings much, much closer and fairer and reduce the class indexs so that very few (only the best) can run under. Then fairly make fewer classes There will be more cars in each class and more all-out racing. The fans will love it, the racers who can still compete will love it/ those who can't, won't like it but can go bracket racing in S/G or whatever. Some will leave the ranks and some will return to the ranks because they will be RACING again.
Right now, the only people who like these classses are those who run in it and their friends. The fans don't, and NHRA thinks of it as a "filler" - no more/ no less .... an annoyance, at best.
I guess I have a lot to say after seeing this from the days of the early 60s through today. My opinions won't make everyone happy; but if you're like me you want to line up against cars of equal potential, race hard and all-out, and if you get there first - you win; and if you lose, you go home and work harder, not just change your dial under !!!