[onefarmer]

Well I will throw my two cents in here with another point of view, After reading all the comments here, some funny, some not not so much. I dont think there is a entry level class at all. I think it is more of what level to do you want to enter a class. I know first hand by my own experience and witness others that all/any class from Top fuel to Jrs.will be very competitive if you want to get to the winners circle. The commitment and effort put into it is more of factor than anything. I bought a stocker so I could get more seat time and warm up before running my FSS at events.
I was running it in FS/C at the time all stock, figured that was gonna be fine and leave it that way until Craig Madox handed me my butt in Denver with a heads up run. After that I put in a lot of time and effort to make mine better. The level of competition in any class at a divisional or national event is very impressive. Perfect or very near perfect packages while it may not be the norm, they are very common. I personally like heads up racing more than bracket but that is my own opinion as is everyone else. I was able to make it to two semi finals with my stocker at National events last year and I will admit that was harder than winning races in FSS. I tell people that if racing FSS is "checkers" then racing STK is "chess" I lost both those semis from letting the other people in my head. Most stock racers are so tuff, I say they are mean enough to eat their own young LOL as are the racers in all the other classes