[Ron Middleton]

Dick,
I know you have plenty of experience and love the concept but in reality I just don't see it working. In the mid 90's David Hall and I started racing in the Parts Pro Truck Series. The new factory built cars have changed the playing field and while I understand the factories reasoning behind it NHRA has (in my opinion) failed to protect those long time competitors like NASCAR attempts to do with the Cup Series. I understand we are not pros, but the same issues that face the pros face us just on a smaller scale. The way I see it, you either have to refine and fix the current class because with the technology and money involved in today's racing almost any heads up racing will start out reasonable but soon escalate to point where the masses cannot afford it and you lose even more racers. I like the thinking though and I sure wish there was some way to do this..