[Rob Petrie E395]

If the economy was good like it was years ago. And Big time big money sponserships were in good supply like it was not so long ago. I could agree about changing things in a major way. But they are not we would be asking teams with millions of dollars invested in the current rules package. To sell it for pennies on the dollar to start over with a new rules package. It would be like telling stock and super stock racers to sell your current car to a bracket racers for next to nothing and buy a Cobra Jet,Drag Pack or camaro to play the game or sit home. The ones who can afford it would. The ones who cant wont. In the end every one who is racing now that cant afford it is one more team who is out of the game and I doubt there will be enough new player to take thier place. And that will mean alot less cars out there running pro stock than there is now. Jeff Burk (Of DRO) started out wanting to get rid of the hood scoops and switch them to fuel injection. Now he wants to get rid of the current rules and move the import cars up and make them the new pro stock. I could go for a change to fuel injection but to drop everything and start over with a whole new rules package is a bad idea. I think in the end it will kill the class. Just look at Greg Stanfield he just won at Pomona in a car with a huge number of passes on it for a pro stock car. Does he run that car because there is some advantage to it. Hell no he does it because he could not afford a new car and he is not the only one working with a shoestring budget. I see every time there is a rule change in your classes there are people up in arms about it. Imagine if NHRA told you that you had to buy one of the new cars to play. Thats what you are asking for pro stock if this were done to them.