[cicero819]

Great thread Mr Yacavonne, this subject is very close to my heart. I did some research and found that in the United States alone there is approximately 1,043 oval tracks with 12,000 paid members, compared to 295 drag strips with NHRA alone 35.000 licensed members and another 23.000 in IHRA. The primary reason is that vehicle can be driven from the street in a drag race and with competition that includes handicapping any vehicle, be competitive with any other. Many years ago bracket racing was introduce to help combat the high cost of Class Racing and help our sport to continue to survive. A great artlcle was penned by J.E. Renninger in Bracket Racing USA March 1996 Volume 10, number two in the Reaction Time section where he stated that Heads up mustang was attracting the young people to the track to run heads up but with all good things, competition breeds more competition to the point where they just plain tired themselves out or bankrupt their savings in the quess for more speed. I have been a harden supporter of Pure Stock but here is the catch, we must keep the bracket indexes under contol by introducing new cars to racing bracket racing style, dial your own run race . Just think of the cars that you could bring in, not just the Pony Retro Muscle Cars but new very performance oriented automobiles built right here in North America such as Toyota Corolla SR(a rocketship) Toyota Camry, Cadillacs for us older gents. I've sent this information to NHRA hoping that they might introduce it to the divisional level to see if any interest is there but unfortunately Compton and the gang of ^%$# are just too busy bleeding it until they can just walk away. So it's left to brave folks such as Mark Yacavonne and others to educate us and kick us in the butt. So why not a Pure stock run what you brung race for newer cars to help bring the young people and the older folks back to racing. I know what I'm talking because I'm building a stocker at this moment and sometimes I wonder why I'm doing this/lol Claude Ruel