[Bob Mulry]

Dick,

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM..........

What's the record for your new & improved class?

Combining class (STOCK & SUPER STOCK) might not, I repeat not, be a bad way to go.

I don't think sticks & autos in the same class will work because look at the fine job that NHRA has done with the AHFS, just change the weight breaks. All this can only occur with lots of input from us, the sportsman racers who race in stock and super stock

There would be more heads-up runs, which is what you desire without adding a new show that takes track time away from everybody else.

The divisionals still could be used, as they had been designed to be used, for the local racer to set records and race against other cars in the division, which would lead to a divisional championship.

Sounds pretty simple when you spell it out.

If you want top/stock or top/super stock talk to your local track and become part of the Wednesday night or weekend bracket show and not take more time away from the divisionals.

Dick, I mean no disrespect to you or your ideas, but I think it is time to speak up about what's really important to sportsman racing.

Every new class or eliminator is a step towards the end of drag racing, as we know it.

The divisionals have had problems drawing ever since the pros left. No advertising and no hype to fill the grandstands. My belief is that adding another eliminator, which contains very few cars and is not geographically dispersed across the country, is a plan for failure.

We can just keep diluting the product, sportsman racing, until there is nothing left or we can take a stand.

Bob