While not "directly" impacting Stock and Super Stock I see that NHRA decided to contest TS and TD at the National Championship level as opposed to Divisional only level in the past (like Super Street). In the process they added those classes to 3 additional National events (up to 14 from 11). One would suppose they want to reward contestants in those categories who obviously have large investments along with offset some revenue losses from decreasing car counts in other classes. I choose to see this move from an optimistic viewpoint in that some of those same contestants also have class cars or will possibly add them to their stables as people try to have multiple class entries in order to increase their chances of success.
Here's the announcement....
http://www.nhraracer.com/content/gen...933&zoneid=175