[Jim Wahl]

Jack, my friend ( I say that even though I have never met you, but hope to one day)__1) the only thing I know is "***** happens". But, you can't tell me that a 64 car field will not happen can you? Hell, none of us saw this last rule coming or even got an idea it was being talked about!__2) You missed my point on this one. What I meant was with only class winners able to run in the eliminator there would be more guys scrambling to get into those "easy" FWD classes so they would be a class winner. There wouldn't be 7 A/SA cars and 5 B/SA and 6 C/SA cars in the eliminator anymore! Only one, the baddest dog in the class, would be left. Make it a 64 car field and you will see a comeback in FWD. As much as some people dislike the FWD cars, there are really only a handful in the country that are capable of bumping the 100 or so Camaro, Firebird or Mustang combos out of the #1 qualifying slot, and yet we are looked at with such rebuke it makes me sick. There has been only ONE FWD car win a major race in the history of NHRA, ask Mark Yakavone how easy that was to accomplish.
How does game playing affect me? It affects me and everyone else who qualifies by giving me Biondo, Bertozzi, Fletcher, (insert name here) in the 1st round instead of the final! I'm at a loss to understand how this last rule did anything but insert more F bodies into the show? Somebody clear it up for me, please!