[Dan Fahey]

This is where I will miss the IHRA Pure Stock.
Basically the Old Stock Eliminator Rules.

Seems about that same time in Class Racing.
NASCAR Stock Cars had less and less original components!
Now not one part in modern day Stock Car ever fit on a Production Car.

Same with our car.
We need Roll Bars, special suspensions, more safety equipment, certification of helmets and seat belts, special fuel.
Cannot even use pump gas anymore.

Crate Motors were always a natural fit.
Replacement engines were always common.
Did not morphed the Stock Eliminator concept.
Sometimes you are stuck with a combination.
Old parts become problematic!
Plus opened up a vendor base.

We may not want another class but new ones are always being invented.
The RAGE of Racers complaining they do not want a new class.
New ones keep popping up.
Which means Stock Eliminator has to compete for Racers who choose to run those classes.

Current rules restrict inviting the new generation of Racer to play in our sand box.

You do not do not see many 20 - 30 year olds.
Do see 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and passing away.

IHRA had the right idea with their Class Eliminator set up.
Had NHRA adopted the IHRA structure.
There would have been shift from traditional Stock.


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