[buzzinhalfdozen]

We try to support our local association as much as we can, we've raced Div. Nats. and these combos. Last year was a wash for us as I hurt both my engines, however I still want to support the local deal. For me the Nats. are just too much money and days off work, if I didn't live a stones throw from Norwalk I'd skip it, we argue each year wether to go or not I hate to miss 2 days work when the race is 15 miles away. Even the Div. stuff requires I take Fri. off. I've not made concrete plans for next year but plan on keeping it as local as possible. If I can win the arguement with Jacque I wont go to any Nats this year... the cost is just too HIGH. I've had some guys tell me they won't run the combos cause they don't want to run Stockers in their S/S car, me I don't care it's still racing. Heck I sometimes go to the local track and run No-box I built my junk to race not be a conversation piece. Granted there are many with much nicer and higher dollar cars than mine that may just think anything but a NHRA race is just beneath them, thats fine with me but I want to RACE, that's why I built this stuff. Joe