[D.Johns]

Heads up racing is what I find exciting. Bracket and throttle stop racing is boring to watch most of the time. The only reason I considered Stock/SS in the first place was the heads up class runoffs. There are other draws but that's what got me to even start considering the class.

Problem with heads up is it is EXPENSIVE!!! Classes are formed to be "affordable to the new guy". In a years time the guys that can out spend and/out smart everyone else rises to the top. Quickly the competitive nature kicks and people spend astronomical amounts of money on their race car. Heads up is exciting and simple to understand. It puts people in the seats and makes them want to build a car. I could build a faster heads up car for the same amount of money I'm spending on the CJ. I want to race in the NHRA though for several reasons and at least I will get a little heads up action with stock/SS

Bracket racing is hard to be good at. It's cheaper to run and most people that want to race start there because of costs. You can out drive someone better then some can outspend the competition. But for most new guys to the sport don't get excited about watching bracket.

"Run what you brung and hope you brung enough" is what gets the blood flowing. The only issue is the cost of that type of racing virtually insures the class will not survive long with out big money, big sponsors, big venues and big dedication.

As stated above the car culture has changed. Fridays and Saturdays the city streets where packed with youth driving around and socializing about and around their cars. City officials and older citizens worked feverishly hard to end that. Curfews, citations for loitering and road blocks so you couldn't "scoop the loop" was standard practice in my town until the ritual was dead. Known Racing spots were closely monitored for street racers(not that I would condone such a thing).