The State Of Sportsman Racing - Interesting Read

[Mike Delahanty]

From Drag Illustrated.

http://www.dragillustrated-digital.c...110?pg=88#pg88

Page 88-99.

Discuss among yourself.

[Dan Fahey]

Good read!

[Ok stocker]

Sad but true. I remember a time when there was 6 NHRA tracks with in 4 hours from where I lived and they ran all sportsman classes every weekend. There were even a couple of Ihra tracks close that ran classes. What seems to have happened is the tracks run the weekly bracket programs and anyone can race. Few rules and expenses. When the tracks stopped running classes it seems like a natural evolution especially in these hard times races went to what paid and they could afford. The pride money at a lot of local tracks rivals what winning a sanctioned event would pay without the travel, expenses and the rules

[Jim Wahl]

Nothing in that article related to Stock and Super Stock racing except for Mike Beard talking about how he pretty much quit racing NHRA and IHRA in order to go bracket racing. Didn't whet my interest at all. Jim

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[BRINK]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

Nothing in that article related to Stock and Super Stock racing except for Mike Beard talking about how he pretty much quit racing NHRA and IHRA in order to go bracket racing. Didn't whet my interest at all. Jim

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I couldn't agree with you more, Jim.

[cutta]

My questions:

Is there really any way to drive the cost of class racing(Stock, Super Stock, Comp) down?

Is there a way to make it more accessible locally?
For me, we had once a year Stock/Super Stock combo races at our local tracks(Prescott and Centerville) that always peaked my interest when I was young. The rest was nurtured at NHRA events.

How do entry level cost compare to what we had ten years ago?

Will we ever be able to shorten our divisional races into one or two day events to make it easier for people to enter these events?

When was the last big money class race(Stock, Super Stock, Comp) that we've seen and where are the sponsors to make something like that happen now?
I'm assuming if the location was right, you could get lots of Stockers and Super Stockers in the same place for a big money purse like some of these bracket races.

What can we as a group(racers, fans, and fut racers) that care about the future of class racing do to make things better?

[ALMACK]

I see their points on the NHRA class racing vs. bracket racing.

I have noticed more of the big buck bracket races popping up in KY.

I still like my Stockers, but I can see where running a separate bracket race every day could be more appealing than one race for the whole weekend and if you go out 1st rd., then there is no 2nd chance.