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Originally Posted by Pistol Pete
Alan
I enjoy racing class, don't get me wrong, but in all honesty, does anyone win money
for a class win ??? I guess it's just a prestige thing.
Now let's take your class G/S. More then likely your first rd. is your Trophy Run.
How many rounds was the most you ran in class ?? And at what race was it ??
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I'm not running G/S anymore. When I was, there were three cars within 100 miles or so, and it was good racing, despite both of them being faster than I was, by a considerable margin. The other two are still here. We sold the G/S car because of the economy at the time, and to focus on one car. We often wish we had not.
If you're worried about money, you're in the wrong area of drag racing, probably the worst possible area of drag racing to be concerned about winning money. But class racing is all about running for class. If it isn't, then why bother at all? It's way too much money to spend on a "bracket car". I'm in the middle of a new engine for SS/EA. If I didn't care about class, I sure as Hell wouldn't even consider doing the things I'm doing, or spending this kind of money to run the ET and MPH we want to run. For the A/SA car or the SS/EA car, I could go a second faster for 1/2 the money if we weren't running class cars. I'd have 1/4 the work load. Running Stock and Super Stock, for me at least, is about striving to go fast within the rules, and running class or heads up and doing well is a huge part of the reward. Despite struggling a lot recently. Winning the regular eliminations is a great thing, too. But if we focused on pure bracket racing, I'm sure we could do well at that. For less money, and probably win a fair amount of money.
Even considering purse or prize money in class racing is absurd. You can't possibly hope to win enough for it to matter. Between the entry fees and fuel to go to a race, if you won, you might make $500 or so. Before you paid for everything else. You can barely hope to not lose too much money.
If you're racing Stock or Super Stock to win money, your name better be Bertozzi, Biondo, Rampy, or Fletcher. Knowing all four real well, we know we ain't them. Yeah, there are other good racers besides them.
The best possible thing for Stock and Super Stock would be to run class at every event. Running class was the primary reason for the classes to begin with. We've strayed too far from the roots.