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Originally Posted by D.Johns
The NHRA website and even ESPN2 actually put something up about it in the middle of all the nitro/pro guys. That is some media attention for Stock Eliminator that some always complain the class lacks. The cars have brought more attention to the sport and new interest in cars being built to compete. I'm building a 2013 CJ to compete I never considered it before the CJs showed up. Because of the CJs many of my mustang friends are also looking at getting into racing here(and not just CJs to race but other models). Like them or not they are here to stay. So stop complaining on the Internet and get to work on your race car. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. If it was easy everyone would do it and you would still have the 5% that would rise to the top. This isn't only true in racing but in life. 95% of the people are just along for the ride.
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Yeah. Some media attention. The fans were all gone Friday night, and Saturday night, when Stock was actually on the track. Yeah, it got all of about a minute of TV time, and it might get a couple of sentences, or maybe a couple of paragraphs. That no one who is not already following class racing will ever see. For all we've been told about "media attention" and "good for the class" for four years, we haven't seen squat. And we won't.
Nice that you're such a dedicated class racer that it took a store bought combination with a completely bogus factor to "inspire" you to come compete. Take the easy way out, and brag about being "in the 5%".
Work on our cars? Tell me, how long are we supposed to work, and how much are we supposed to spend? Sounds like you're buying it all done. We spent 3 nights in the shop last week before we left for Charlotte, never mind all winter and thousands of dollars on a fresh updated engine. We're building an new engine for the other car, too. Both traditional combinations, real cars that were sold to the general public to drive on the street. I'll be working on transmissions and headers, as well as putting a fresh engine on the dyno, in the next three weeks. And you want to tell us to work on our cars?
You come back and talk to me about how much work and money should be expended when you take something that has a fairly honest factor and run 1.0 under the index and win class.
By the way, good luck to your "Mustang friends" building cars that are not Cobra Jets. That will work out real well. Considering Ford will not allow anything but a Cobra Jet in the class guide.