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Old 08-25-2017, 11:29 AM   #29
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Default Re: IHRA and Memphis

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Originally Posted by Nmbr1GMfan View Post
Exactly.
Suggested this before.
The new Cars from US and Foreign manufacturers are the cars that people are buying and racing them.
If you want Stock to be populated by a younger generation.
Got to create a path to consider Stock and Super Stock
Which includes migrating them through a Pure Stock Class to allow them to compete.
IHRA limits to 2005 and NHRA ignores them completely.

The car racing market will invent itself around the large sanctioning bodies.
Hence the success of NMCA and other more flexible organizations.
If you want a younger set you have to go after them.
NMCA is packing them in.

NHRA and IHRA to survive in todays market are going to have to invite foreign models to compete.
BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Nissan and so on.

There is such resistance to these cars that it is killing potential growth.
But that IMHO is where the market is growing.

My 1995 Impala SS is more than 20 years old.
But one of the newer cars compared to the old stalwart racers from the 60's.

Factory Stock is popular but for the rest of Stock you got to grab the lower HP cars.

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