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X-TECH MAN · 07-31-2008, 06:39 AM

Hi Mike......To bad you dont have the "POINTS" to enter the "BIG GO". You know what I always thought about that points crap. Yep.....It was $500 of our out of pocket $$$$ to get Top Stock started PLUS a lot of time, phone calls, emails and taking abuse from the very ones who raced the program and others. If it hadnt have been for a racer frendly guy like Bill Bader and IHRA it would never have happened. I tried to pitch the idea to Bob Lang a year before IHRA allowed it to happen. To bad we had all of the other crap shoved down our throats after the first race at Norwalk. If it had been handled correctly and certain sponsor people would have stayed out of the rules process I believe it would have been bigger than Pro Stock was in 1970 when it started. Oh well......HISTORY ! Now on to the reason of my post......Whats wrong with the rest of the people on this site? Why dont you come off of your wallets and support something like this with $25.....$50.....$100??? I know manufacturers are reading this site every day also. Is this going to make you go broke? Why not show some support for a class such as this? Along with the A/SA, B/S stick and automatic classes cars and a few others these are the "BAD BOYS" of stock elim. It takes a bunch of $$$$$ AND tallent to run one of these monsters and these cars were NOT meant to "Bracket" race like some of the so called professional stock racers seem to do. The Div. One Top Stock program that Dave Ley has going is a sucess and would be bigger and better if they could recieve some support and race in front of a good fan base instead of in the middle of the week at the opens. Ive seen the spectator/fan reaction and it is a hit. The rumor is stick and auto just might run together next year at least in the upper HP classes so could you imagine the class run off with all of the A/SA and A/S cars listed on the Indy entry list this year going head to head !!! It would put the PRO boys to shame. OK....Im off my soap box for now. I wish ALL entrys to Indy the best of luck. Terry Bell

07-31-2008, 06:39 AM	#26
X-TECH MAN Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lake Placid, Florida Posts: 3,203 Likes: 1,047 Liked 235 Times in 110 Posts	Re: "A" Stick Nationals at Indy!! Hi Mike......To bad you dont have the "POINTS" to enter the "BIG GO". You know what I always thought about that points crap. Yep.....It was $500 of our out of pocket $$$$ to get Top Stock started PLUS a lot of time, phone calls, emails and taking abuse from the very ones who raced the program and others. If it hadnt have been for a racer frendly guy like Bill Bader and IHRA it would never have happened. I tried to pitch the idea to Bob Lang a year before IHRA allowed it to happen. To bad we had all of the other crap shoved down our throats after the first race at Norwalk. If it had been handled correctly and certain sponsor people would have stayed out of the rules process I believe it would have been bigger than Pro Stock was in 1970 when it started. Oh well......HISTORY ! Now on to the reason of my post......Whats wrong with the rest of the people on this site? Why dont you come off of your wallets and support something like this with $25.....$50.....$100??? I know manufacturers are reading this site every day also. Is this going to make you go broke? Why not show some support for a class such as this? Along with the A/SA, B/S stick and automatic classes cars and a few others these are the "BAD BOYS" of stock elim. It takes a bunch of $$$$$ AND tallent to run one of these monsters and these cars were NOT meant to "Bracket" race like some of the so called professional stock racers seem to do. The Div. One Top Stock program that Dave Ley has going is a sucess and would be bigger and better if they could recieve some support and race in front of a good fan base instead of in the middle of the week at the opens. Ive seen the spectator/fan reaction and it is a hit. The rumor is stick and auto just might run together next year at least in the upper HP classes so could you imagine the class run off with all of the A/SA and A/S cars listed on the Indy entry list this year going head to head !!! It would put the PRO boys to shame. OK....Im off my soap box for now. I wish ALL entrys to Indy the best of luck. Terry Bell Last edited by X-TECH MAN; 07-31-2008 at 06:41 AM.