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Originally Posted by Michael Colaluca
What is hurting the future of stock and superstock? The cost!
Who in their 20s-30s is going to want to spend 10k+ on a race engine, when they can spend the same money and go twice as fast using other means?
The rules need to be reevaluated. If nothing happens, watch the classes disappear.
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Michael, you are absolutely right! As the current racers retire(or worse) they aren't being replaced with enough younger racers. I've been trying for quite some time to show potential racers that it doesn't have to be silly expensive to race(Dime Rockets) but I also understand that a 20-30 yearold doesn't want to race a 30+ yearold 14 second car.
At some point in the not too distant future, NHRA is going to have to do either a drastic re-write of the rules(think early 70s type of re-write) or they are going to have to let the imports in in some way. If they don't I'm afraid to say that attrition is going to eventually do us in. And all of that being said, It seems to me that Stock is probably the healthiest of all the Eliminators. At least it is right now.