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Originally Posted by bob gonier
Sorry Bob, Money is not the reason. I have a son who want's to race every chance he gets and a car that would make a perfect stocker with a weekends worth of work, It just doesn't make sense to me. I also have a car I can drive anytime, a legal I/SA car. It may not be the fastest I stocker but it's legal and fun and I chose NOT to race it. I also have some friends who know a thing or two about building fast stockers and I'm sure I can be fast for as cheap as possible and yet we still choose to bracket race weekly. Trust me, It's not the money.................
By the way, Congrats to Denny and Ray, in a helluva Pro final !!!!!!!!!!!
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Bob, the cost is a big part of why people don't run Stock. You personally have much of the money already spent on your car but the power train to be competitive with a Pontiac is quite a bit more than a Chevy with some inherent issues that are tough to overcome. Don't think many can build a Stocker cheaper than my Camaro have 60K+ in it and hundreds of hours, looked at reproducing the engine = 20K to go 11s? Plus it must be freshened every 150 runs. Then you have the lightweight transmission the differential........
As to the comment on the quality of bracket cars have heard some of the cars allowed to race at big money foot break races in the south is pretty bad. You personally do not field a car of low quality how about the guy who raced with lawn chair for driver seat? Both sides of the coin.
Back to cost: To attend an LODRS race with entry, expendables, meals, hotel, gas and tolls a 3 day race will eat up 1K or more. What's a bracket race cost 250? Less?
If you race to win money class racing is not what it was years ago, the contingency is not there any longer. Bracket racing is much more lucrative with much lower overhead.